Brews Brothers on Netflix

Ya mean like how "Cheers" was a giant middle finger to bars or "WKRP in Cincinnati" was a giant middle finger to AM radio? I know I stopped watching TV News after I saw Ted Baxter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and, man, I never set foot in a NYC cab again after seeing that mechanic Latka on "Taxi". (I did continue to do nothing, however, no matter how bad "Seinfeld" made it appear. )

 

Haven't heard of it, but why does it seem like a giant middle finger to the industry?

 

LOL I watched the preview and it looks funny as hell. I will be watching later on, thanks for heads up.

 

I once tried to watch Trailer Park Boys on the recommendation of my nephew. About five minutes of that was all I could take. I think I'll pass on Brews Brothers, thank you.

 

Haven't seen the show, but bottles are better than cans. Just sayin'.

I like Trailer Park Boys, so maybe I'll like this show too.

Will give show a try, ridiculously stupid things sometimes are funny

 

Boston Beer Co's Jim Koch thought so, too, and even included it in the Samuel Adams Beer Drinker's Bill of Rights:

 

Well, yeah, exactly - that's the point. Koch along with many other "craft" brewers* were once anti-can and now many of them are canning their beers. Did cans really change or did many of those brewers simply change their "belief" based on the potential to sell more beer?

Still lots of "anti-beer can" sentiment out there - can be found right here in the BA forums (right, @cavedave ) - seems like a perfect topic for a sitcom.

*Two notable examples:

• Tony “We’ll be the last brewery in the US to use aluminum cans” Magee.
• Dogfish Head Craft Brewery’s Sam Calagione

 

An unrealistic sitcom?

Damn.

(I used to find it mildly amusing that some "Seinfeld" episodes featured the NYC-based characters drinking Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve, a beer popular in So. California where filming took place but that, as far as I know, was never distributed that far east by either of its 1990s owners [Heileman and Stroh]).

 

I will bet you in any way that is legal that I can pour beers that are both canned and bottled, and you taste them blind, and you won't be able to prove that you can tell the difference.

 

Why that restriction?

You'll never get hired as a sitcom show runner limiting your plot line like that!

(PS - The "goofy" next door neighbor ---- he's a state Alcoholic Beverage Commission Agent!)

 

Don't want to leave an out like, "well, I would take that bet, but that would be illegal."

 

I used to drink only bottles exclusively, then the cans started showing up with the argument that no light, so beer deteriorated slower.

Now, I rarely get cans, well only if I don’t have a choice. Why?

The damage that cans versus bottles does is incredible. This despite the fact that aluminum is easier to recycle (glass has to be sorted and it breaks contaminating the whole batch). While aluminum is easier to recycle, there is so much demand that it needs to be obtained from the ground, creating havoc for the environment. Glass is sand...

Well at least those are the arguments I heard...

 

Like Judge Smails was a big middle finger to the court system. "You're playing golf and you're going to like it".

 

Maybe Jim Koch and Sam Calagione can shoot a commercial where one guy drinks beer from the bottle and the other from the can and they can 'discuss' this?