Quote Originally Posted by Theseus View Post
If I'm not mistaken, Coors couldn't be sold in the Eastern states due to the higher alcohol content. I think it's all explained in "Smokey & the Bandit".
Interesting, i was under the impression that back when Coors was not legal on the est coast was it was filtered beer not pasteurized thus it had to be kept cold or the alcohol content would go up and bottles and cans could burst but more importantly.... Coors was not a unionized brewer and most of the state where you could not get it were big on unions and had unionized breweries... non-union meant that Coors cost less to produce and if properly kept cold tasted better, and sold for less.
Of course it could just simply be that there one brewery in golden could not handle the volume to stock the whole country. we used to have a good number of regional breweries, before micro breweries came on the scene, with just Miller and Bud as the nationwide brands.

but that was a long time ago and i have impaired many brain cells since then. today i can find beer from 18.4% down to NA... i almost never want either of those extremes.

enjoy,
jim