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   From: joetheone@dontchabespamminme.com   
      
   "Bill Shatzer"  wrote in message   
   news:B5ednXiUl4QLd9nanZ2dnUVZ_sCtnZ2d@comcast.com...   
   > hal lillywhite wrote:   
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   > -snip-   
   >   
   >> Remember the TV ads about the Californians trying to sneak California   
   >> beer in to Oregon?  Cute and clever.   
   >   
   > By Blitz-Weinhart - a company soon to be swallowed up by one of those   
   > multistate beer conglomerates and not too much later moved - lock, stock,   
   > and brewing vats - to other locales.   
   >   
   > Thus leaving everything but the local microbrews to be snuck in from   
   > someplace else.   
   >   
   > No great loss. The Henry's Private Reserve beers were drinkable but   
   > Blitz-Weinhart itself was just another generic American beer of no   
   > particular distinction or merit.   
   >   
   But nothing else gave you that distinctive Blitz Schitz.   
   When the foofaw Heny's came out, I was way too prejudiced to give it a   
   fighting chance.   
      
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