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Posted by Michael Gonzalez (Member # 593) on 06-01-2002, 07:56 PM:
How come, in Canada, Smirnoff Ice is an actual 7.5% Vodka Lemon/Lime drink (the #1 drink up north I believe) where as here in the U.S. it is flavored beer? Is it a marketing thing? A legal thing? Anybody else aware of anything similar with other products?
Posted by Rick Long (Member # 213) on 06-01-2002, 08:39 PM:
I was going to make a separate topic for this, but this one seems about as appropriate as any.A friend of mine who is a projectionist in Regina, Saskatchewan, sent me this link on an excellent use for technology.
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/
Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 06-01-2002, 09:22 PM:
As far as I knew Smirnoff Ice is not at all beer, but a flavored malt beverage. I don't think it has the Barley and such, nor does it go through the same fermentation process, does it? Similar products would be Skyy Blue, Two Dogs, or Mickey's. ------------------
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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 06-01-2002, 10:05 PM:
There Ice in canada is actually vodka and mix (effectively a premixed drink) as is many "hard Lemonades"
Posted by Ron Lacheur (Member # 1126) on 06-02-2002, 05:14 AM:
There are many different " Ice " malt drinks, including Smirnoff and Vex. I've been wondering if Bacardi Silver is the same stuff as Ice?
Posted by Dave Bird (Member # 490) on 06-02-2002, 07:00 AM:
I gotta be careful with those "beer and pop" drinks. For some reason, if I drink a pop then a beer, I get severe painful "think I'm gonna die" indigestion. Lasts for half hour or more. I thought I could have one of these beer and sodas. Tornado I think it was called. No way. Is the Smirnoff ICE a legal thing? Could be. Up here, it's not delivery, it's DELISSIO!
Posted by Dave Macaulay (Member # 813) on 06-02-2002, 04:15 PM:
Maybe there's some dumb law against selling bottled premixed cocktails in the USA?
And why/how could Smirnoff (a vodka company) sell a beer?
Canada obviously rules.
Posted by Michael Gonzalez (Member # 593) on 06-02-2002, 04:59 PM:
Well I was using flavored beer as an expression. It's more like a wine cooler (flavored malt beverage). I was wondering if there was some kind of law here against premixed drinks too and if this law or others like it affects anything else.
Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 06-03-2002, 03:24 AM:
On the front of the bottle the label says 'Premium Malt Beverage.' But on the back, with all the required stuff like the Surgeion Generals warning to pregnant women, it says 'flavored beer' in what appears to be an officious (is that a word?) place. I think it does in fact have to do with the US's screwy alcohol laws. 'Hard' drinks, anything not beer, are regulated more strictly than just beer. You can't advertise for hard alcohol on TV, for example.
Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 06-03-2002, 07:41 AM:
In the UK as far as I know it's a vodka mixer not beer.Its like alcoholic lemonade.