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Author Topic: Why is the Canadian version or Smirnoff Ice different than the U.S. version? Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 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?  |  IP: Logged Rick Long Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 759 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Registered: Nov 1999 posted 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/  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 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. ------------------ "Asleep at the switch? I wasn't asleep, I was drunk!" - Homer Simpson  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-01-2002 10:05 PM                     There Ice in canada is actually vodka and mix (effectively a premixed drink) as is many "hard Lemonades"  |  IP: Logged Ron Lacheur Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 650 From: British Columbia, Canada Registered: Feb 2002 posted 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?  |  IP: Logged Dave Bird Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 777 From: Perth, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jun 2000 posted 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!  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged

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