We used to order trays of cheap draft (I think it used to be spelled draught) in a bar where the entertainment was the guy drunker than you were, and occasionally the entertainment was you. You ordered draft (or draught), a tray was as many glasses as could fit on the tray, unless you ordered a pitcher (not a picture) and you never ordered one pitcher, that would have been a low class move meaning you only had enough cash left for one more pitcher, get the picture. No brand reference required because there was one beer on tap, what beer it was, was classified information. No one knew or cared. It was cold and cheap and plentiful. Today you go to a bar and they have more types of beer on tap than Aunt Martha has chins.
Fact check. Wikipedia definition: Draught beer, also spelt draft, is beer served from a cask or keg rather than from a bottle or can. If it is in a bottle how can it be draught (draft) let alone genuine draft (draught). Maybe there is a picture of this beer beside the word oxymoron in the dictionary. I just had a chill, is there a draft in here?
Now I’m doing okay, made some money, put a few bucks away, got some RRSPs collecting 0.6% interest! So why do I need to be guzzling cheap draft these days? I ruminated on all these weighty questions as I snapped the cap off a bottle. If you drink craft beer you will find this brew to be somewhat bland. If you have been drinking Bud Light for 20 years you will find this beer to be full of flavour. Horses for courses they used to say. I have a few more in the fridge and I will drink them, despite the rating I gave it. Waste not want not.
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