Originally Posted by
cyberdad
...Carling Black Label....A little on the sweet side, but usually very drinkable.
(Not to be confused with Carling Red Cap, which was truly great stuff...especially the Canadian version).
A decade ago both Carling and Molson reformulated their excellent beers to appeal to a wider market and ... made them taste more like Bud. Very strange strategy, no idea how well it worked for them (in either gaining market share or reducing their production costs), but I stopped drinking them as they lost a lot of taste. Blandness does seem to be a desired characteristic in mass-market beers (usually called "easy drinking", as in water).