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Molson Coors considers getting into marijuana business in Canada
Company looking to invest, collaborate on cannabis-infused beverages
Denver-based Molson Coors Brewing Co. is weighing whether to expand into the sector with Canada poised to legalize the drug for recreational use this October. The brewer is said to have held talks with several Canadian-based marijuana companies to invest and collaborate in cannabis-infused beverages in an attempt to halt declining beer sales, according to a Friday report from BNN Bloomberg, citing several unidentified people familiar with the matter.
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You recoil from the crude; you tend naturally toward the exquisite.
(Score: 2) by aclarke on Wednesday June 27 2018, @02:04PM (5 children)
Maybe they should just make better beer. I'm not really sure why people buy and drink that stuff. I'm lucky to have an awesome brewery in our local town of 8000, but almost anything else (including not drinking beer) is better than most of the stuff that comes out of the big breweries.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @02:58PM (1 child)
http://www.molsoncoors.com/en/brands [molsoncoors.com]
They actually make flavorful beers but they keep their primary "drinkability" brands as distinct as possible to avoid angering beer snobs. American pilsner beers make a ton of money because the manufacturing processes have had decades of cost cutting refinements and the lighter beers are favored by alcoholics who are the largest consumers of alcoholic beverages.
Seriously check out that list it might surprise you. They've built their portfolio so that no matter your tastes they have products to sell to you. I imagine that their weed beer will be on the thick and fancy side, I doubt they want to encourage anyone to drink a whole 6 pack in one sitting, even then it's going to be a hot seller next economic downturn as edibles will keep you stoned all afternoon and into the evening.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 27 2018, @03:06PM
Informative link. You do have to enter some fake birthdate to enter - make sure it's more than 21 summers ago. Then, you have this stupid bottom banner.
Just ignore that banner thing. I'm navigating the site. You can't dismiss it, unless you accept the cookies. If I wanted cookies, I would have gone to the grocery store. I didn't go to a beer store to get cookies.
We're gonna be able to vacation in Gaza, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and maybe Minnesota soon. Incredible times.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 27 2018, @03:01PM (2 children)
Agreed. Almost everything made in the US is a pilsener. Some pilseners are better than others, but I've never drank one that I really like. An ice cold pilsener on a hot summer day, when you've just got out of the sun - yeah. That's the time when an American beer tastes great. Any other time, almost everything else tastes better. Almost anything. Whoever invented fortified wines should be hanged, repeatedly.
We're gonna be able to vacation in Gaza, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and maybe Minnesota soon. Incredible times.
(Score: 3, Informative) by AthanasiusKircher on Wednesday June 27 2018, @05:20PM
What's wrong with a decent dry sherry? I'll admit the standard mass produced cream cherries can be pretty awful, but that's not true of all. And a decent port can be great with dessert. Certainly better than most of the Moscato crap everyone suddenly discovered recently. (Not all Moscato is crap, but a lot of the popular stuff now is pretty awful.)
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday June 28 2018, @01:30AM
I was with you until that crack against fortified wine.
A good dry sherry is great with cheese, as is a decent port, and reasonable ports are usually not that expensive, where I live anyway.
I agree about pilsener though. However I am sure if I went to Pilsen I could find lots of slightly different, really nice brews. Those Czechs love their beer.