Ancient percentage of alcohol in Molson Dry

December 10, 2006 6:28 PM

Molson Dry Question

Recently, in Quebec, Molson changed the alcohol percentage of the Molson Dry to 5,5%. I just got in an argument that ended up in a bet as wether the ancient percentage was 6,1% or 5,8% (or something else).
Does anyone have the right answer (and a way to prove it and win the 6-pack we bet on)?

posted by a007r to Food & Drink (3 answers total)

I'm not sure it wasn't 5.5% before. I worked at Molson in 1989 and Dry was at 5.5% in Ontario.
posted by Dipsomaniac at 6:35 PM on December 10, 2006

According to the labels pictured here, it might have been 5.8% for Molson Dry (the label is kind of hard to read) and 6.5% for Hi Dry. It may be that it was always lower outside of Quebec.
posted by Urban Hermit at 6:48 PM on December 10, 2006

you might be thinking of Brador beer, which was an eye-popping (for beer) 6.1%

Molson Dry was always in the 5's
posted by seawallrunner at 7:37 PM on December 10, 2006