Beer Wars

[Graham.C]

Anyone seen the doc? Its on netflicks.ca now and I'm currently watching it. So far so good.

[mr x]

Yeah, it's pretty good. If you can, check out the 3 part PBS series on prohibition. It's really good as well. There's an article in the Globe and Mail today about the need for Beer Store reform in Ontario.

[Graham.C]

Yeah I saw that. McGuinty isn't the most popular, but I think his look towards alcohol reform is a great thing. I guess we will see where it goes in legislature within the next few weeks/months.

[BBrianBoogie]

Beer Wars is certainly not without some flaws but worth a watch none the less

[spears104]

I'm all for sticking it to the macros, but even I found Beer Wars really biased. Still good to watch to see the director's perspective.

[JohnE]

Agreed with the other guys. Beer Wars is pretty decent, but certainly has some flaws. One of them being when Anat Baron does that segment where she thinks there is no modern day temperance movement.

One docu I liked was "American Beer". It was really good, but very rough (filmed on a home camera by a bunch of drunk guys). A lot of really good interviews with a lot of famous guys in the American Craft beer scene.

[derek]

Agreed with the other guys. Beer Wars is pretty decent, but certainly has some flaws. One of them being when Anat Baron does that segment where she thinks there is no modern day temperance movement.

I haven't seen the show (don't watch TV) but she'd be right in terms of a "movement". If there was a real modern-day temperance movement, we'd have something to fight against. Instead, what we have is a bunch of entrenched political and business interests who simply oppose any rationalization of the liquor laws. Yeah, there's MADD who really are a temperance organization, but I wouldn't call them a movement and they're not the reason our laws are still so regressive. Of course it's not just our laws, locally: many American states are as bad or worse).

[JohnE]

derek: My problem was the entire segment from both sides. Its was ridicules. The guy she had talking about neo-prohibition was an idiot, but she her self thinking there was no attempt at curbing alcohol at all was silly.