"The Submarine Captain" > wrote in message
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> Another way of using draft for pacvkaging was "Miller Genuine Draft",
> reportedly called this way because it is cold-filtered and is reputed to
> have the same crispness as the draught version.

The main issue there was (well, is) the fact that canned and bottled beer
(from the large breweries) is typically pasteurized, whereas keg beer is
not. MGD, due to its filtering, was not pasteurized, and therefore was more
like keg beer. Hence the name.

-Steve