Radler - the story unfolds

[Geoff Griggs]

This is quite amazing. See attached file (you may need to download it and open it with Adobe Reader)

The sooner this lunacy is challenged and defeated the better!

[Hugh Grierson]

Seriously this could be the best thing to happen for the 'beer with flavours' scene N.Z. I know it is a bit embarrassing though. IPONZ has make us look like a quaint, silly place where multinational powers control both the media and the Govt. Hang on, thats us!

How about my TVNZ  RADLERCONSPIRACYCOVERUP rant! Still bang on . Ask their search engine, it still has no idea. How long will they refuse to mention it? Now some Grumpy German Brewmasters (TM)  are going stir the mediawort,.... and we will be come international laughed at kiwi-hicks.

Anyway to my point, the positives could be

More negative press towards dominion of evil breweries.

An awareness that Man-tiths is a big brewery bland swill now, and no longer anything west coast but a brand.

More media cuddles for the good kiwi brewer.

Maybe some national shame at how we have let our beer options be dictated to, and utterly squashed in most of our main sponsored events.

Then some sort of beer revolution.

[Ralph]

Viva la revolucion!!

[Geoff Griggs]

They're dealing with the same issue in Croatia...

http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/Business/2011-07-19/20639/Fruit_f...

[Rhyno]

Interesting to see that Carlsberg Croatia are leading the charge to have the Radler trademark annuled.

 

Is that what we need here, a big multi national to throw the punches?

[beerdrinker]

The Radler story is now the subject of the opinion poll on TradeMe, as at 12.45pm 20/7/2011.  Now that is the mainstream.

[Ralph]

Yup and at the moment, almost half the people think that trademarking Radler is anticompetitive and the other half have no idea what a Radler is....

[beerdrinker]

Those punters must be the Sauv Blanc drinkers.

[JoKing]

Get your voting shoes on:

 

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/Vote.aspx

[Pilgrim]

Hmm, wonder if DB started this just to show how many people don't know what a Radler is.

[Greig McGill]

It wouldn't matter. They've already shown that, and it's pretty much beyond dispute that in 2003, not that many kiwis knew what Radler was. SOBA contended the number was larger than DB said it was, but at the end of the day, I couldn't ever see us winning on that point. It's unfortunate that it came down to having to prove that in order to show Radler shouldn't be trademarkable. As many people have said, by that reasoning, one could have TMed Pinot Gris in 1970 in NZ.

[craig rothwell]

No doubt you've all read the following article from the New Zealand Herald earlier this week:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&obje...

 

I found this subsequent blog pretty interesting....

http://hackettsupdates.blogspot.com/2011/07/hypocrisy-or-just-plain...

[Geoff Griggs]

This is classic...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85vKLWoEm4E&feature=share