http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2004-08-18-beer-bear_x.htm
great story, somewhat OT. 
Now I am challeged to find some. May not be easy down here.
be careful, barfing bunnies haven’t got strong stomachs, you should know..
Vomitbunny try Yahoo then News and look for Wierd link, it will keep you busy for awhile.
I wonder how fast the advertisers are going to be with this story 
MarkB
If Rainier has any sense, they’ll be on it hot, heavy, and quick.
They can borrow the Coca Cola bear - he probably needs a break from all that caffeine and sugar anyway
Rainier beer? Beer is rainy?
I Seattle? Rainy? Naw
As in Mount Rainier, silly! Pronounced “ray-NEER.”
Redwolf
That too!
went to Seattle two years ago in August. Supposed to be the “dry” part of the year out there. It was, no rain. BUT… We went to Mt. Rainer. Couldn’t see a darn thing - fog. Went on a ferry ride to Friday Harbor. Couldn’t see a darn thing out or back - fog. Went to the ocean driving down to Portland, couldn’t see a darn thing - fog.
But it was nice to be out of the ragweed season here!!! 
Since Tom lived in Seattle for three years, he says the bear has good taste!
Missy
“Dry” is relative on the western side of the Cascades. It just means it rains somewhat less than usual and fogs somewhat more than usual.
Rainier’s kind of the Budweiser of the Northwest. It’s not great, but it’s not as bad as some, either. Now, if we really wanted to give the bear’s taste buds a test, we’d give him a choice between Rainier and, oh, two or three premiums…and maybe some Guinness, just to see how much taste he REALLY has! 
Redwolf
Tsk. I knew that. But I bet myself I’d get a rise out of someone for it.
You’d be surprised how many people don’t. When I worked for the tourism department in Washington, I’d get so many people through the center who pronounced it “RAIN-ee-ur” and wanted to know if it was because “Washington is so rainy” (which is only true about approximately 1/3 of the state…most of the state is high desert), I just wanted to shake them! These were generally the same morons who wanted to know where the Space Needle was (given that we were on the Washington/Idaho border, the answer was “approximately 300 miles due west”).
Redwolf
Not unlike visitors to South Dakota who would ask how far to the capitol, Pierre, pronouncing it “Pee-Air”. Everyone knows it’s “Peer”. 
OMG! I can’t get Rainier beer in this stupid state! They don’t even allow them to bring it in to sell!!!
Blech…why would you want it? It’s only marginally better than Coors or Bud.
Redwolf
I live in north Idaho in Moscow right next to the Washington border, myself. I get the occasional person that thinks I’m Russian. Also, I kid you not, get spam e-mail in Russian in the Cyrillic alphabet. Sometimes when I explain my Moscow is in Idaho, they want to know if I live on a potato farm. I’m in the panhandle. Southern Idaho, to the south over a mountain range, in a completely different time zone, is where the potatoes are. Culturally, I have more in common with Seattle. The south is more like a satellite state of Utah.
Matt Groening, the creator of the Simpsons, based Duff (which can mean the thick organic matter on top of the soil in a forest, among other things) Beer on Rainier. I was more of an Olympia Beer fan, and especially liked the premium beer they once made a long time ago called Medallion, but Oly went under recently. Rainier and Oly both had really funny TV commercials.
Rod