Fun With Beer at the Denver Post
[Guest post by DRJ]
The lead story at the Denver Post (online version) concerns a traffic accident on the I-70 ramp:
“Some beer “uninjured” in I-70 ramp spill”
(THE DENVER POST | RJ SANGOSTI)
Here’s the rest of the story:
“The new flyover has a nice curve on the top, and if you’re going too fast, there’s no way you’re going to make that turn,” she said.
“It would appear the rig hit that curve and tipped, ripping the side and top of the trailer piece — can-opened it right open. All the beer went flying out, down the embankment between that off-ramp and I-70 down below.”
The driver of the truck was not seriously injured but was transported to a local hospital.
The “uninjured” beer, as Stigall called it, was being transferred by hand to another truck.”
Imagine if it had been Coors beer. That might have ranked an obituary.
— DRJ
See, a pessimist would look at that and say “traffic hazard.” We optimists would look at that and say “street festival!”
driver (faae10) — 5/13/2008 @ 5:48 pmImagine if it had been Coors beer. That might have ranked an obituary.
The Coors folks are engaged in a sly bit of bait-and-switch nowadays. The commercials for “Original” Coors — referred to as “The Banquet Beer” — have a deep-voiced narrator promising that Coors is “set in our ways,” and will only used Rocky Mountain water to make the stuff in the pale yellow can.
HOWEVER…if you take a close look at the bottom of the screen in ads for Coors Light, you’ll see that it is now brewed in TWO places; Coors home of Golden, Colorado AND Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, which I’m sure is a wonderful place, but…
L.N. Smithee (700c1f) — 5/13/2008 @ 6:40 pmKeystone? Coors?
Might as well report the next time a bum takes a leak on the freeway.
Daryl Herbert (4ecd4c) — 5/13/2008 @ 6:47 pmYou guys have a point…if it had been a truckload of Fat Tire Amber Ale, I would be weeping.
driver (faae10) — 5/13/2008 @ 6:59 pmI would gladly have performed mouth-to-mouth on any injured beer cans.
JVW (c86819) — 5/13/2008 @ 7:11 pmIt must have had traffic in ferment.
don de nicola (3548aa) — 5/13/2008 @ 9:08 pmSo What!?!?!?!?!?!
GM CASSEL AMH1(AW) USN RET (8cce32) — 5/14/2008 @ 4:38 amIt’s not even a decent real brew. More like O’Doul’s with a mild buzz. If it was Henry’s Blue Boar Ale, Red Hook ESB or Pete’s Wicked Ale, then tears are in order.
#7 AMH1~
I’m thinking you’ve spent a little too much time within sight of Puget Sound, and have lost touch with the beers of ordinary people across the country.
Good thing you’re not running for office. (Are you?)
Beerist.
EW1(SG) (84e813) — 5/14/2008 @ 5:18 amThis is what becomes of substandard light beer
EricPWJohnson (d2733c) — 5/14/2008 @ 5:21 amThank god it wasn’t PBR.
Scott Jacobs (fa5e57) — 5/14/2008 @ 5:41 amKeystone is a Coors brand.
Viktor (6c107f) — 5/14/2008 @ 6:05 amI’ll be happy to give any orphaned cans a home.
I think it was Coors beer… anyway Trains magazine had an article about a brewery which was using tank cars to ship beer from their western brewery to a bottling/canning plant in the east. They described how the tank cars were insulated and pressurized. And how the railroads involved, CSX and UP, I think, treated the “beer cans” as “hot”, priority loads for shipment, since they were needed by specific dates at the destination.
Beer in the 200,000 lbs net weight can.
Loren (af2946) — 5/14/2008 @ 11:47 amW.C. FEILDS is spinning in his grave
krazy kagu (b3db14) — 5/14/2008 @ 1:26 pmOh, the beermanity!
andycanuck (692aff) — 5/14/2008 @ 9:10 pm