On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:14:34 -0500, wrote:

>Mike Roebuck wrote:
>
>> Purchased my first two bottles of this beer today.
>
>Hey, we have a King Cobra here in the USA, too!
>
>http://www.40ozmaltliquor.com/kingcobra.html
>
>> This is the 8%
>> bottle-conditioned lager (sister to Cobra) which starts its life in
>> Poland and gets trucked to Rodenbach in Belgium, where it's
>> re-fermented and bottled in typical Belgian-style corked champagne
>> bottles, presumably by Palm.
>
>
>Hmmm... sounds like it's a different recipe, tho'. <g>
>
>Hey, with all that transportation, maybe the brewer(s) should look for a
>good law firm along the route. The parent company in the US is kinda
>lawsuit happy when it comes to beers with the same name. (Just ask the
>brewers Dubuisson which makes Bush beer (aka Scaldis in the US). And
>then there's another one...some place in the Czech Republic...)

Interesting - looks like they didn't do any research before naming it.

I know about the AB/Dubuisson scandal. I'd give you my opinion about
AB here, but it's bad form, swearing on newsgroups!


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Regards

Mike