Dow's Kebec beer

Dow's Kebec beer

  So Dow Breweries launched Kebec beer in 1963 as a blatant attempt to grab some more of the Quebec market share. But it flopped and the flag-like logo really didn't attract consumers.
  Nationalist Quebecers didn't like seeing the fleur-de-lys associated with a beer and threatened a boycott of Dow products, and the beer was quickly taken off the market. Things just kept worse for Dow. The company added cobalt salt into their mix in 1966, resulting in the deaths 16-20 hard-drinking Quebec City men.
   Dow management steadfastly argued that there was nothing wrong with their beer but they dumped a million gallons anyway, which was a publicity fiasco that forever doomed the company, which had pulled into the top.
   Now to this day alcoholic beverages do not require any ingredient labeling So whereas other alimentary products have to bear all their dirty secrets on the side of the label, booze has no such restrictions.
   This is, of course, insane.
   We know that the refusal to watch what goes into booze caused the end of civilization.    That's because the Roman Empire used led as a wine sweetener and the elite went insane, leading to the downfall and being overrun by smelly Germans who brought on the dark ages where there was hardly any internet anywhere except for a few cafes.
   So one day Dow decided to add a touch of cobalt salt to their product. Within a month, the first of the heavy-drinking Quebec City victims was to die.
    But there's more to the story according to this account found on the Verdun Connections discussion forum. My attempts to contact the writer were dashed when I encountered the same old log-in issues, if anybody can help with info on this pls let us know in the comments section.
  

It suggests that chronic poisoning might've taken the lives of much of the top brass of the Dow Brewery company.

   Perhaps the cobalt icing had been practiced within the inner circles with disastrous results that nobody really discerned Or else there was a pair of homicidal Finns killing the people they were meant to be helping.In 1963 I rented the guest house on the Black Horse-Dow sstate on the south shore of Lake St.Louis several miles east of Beauharnois.
   There were many posters and pictures of Black Horse Beer in the main house. The gardener and his wife, both from Finland, were the only people left living there. The neighbours later on told me about how they found several members of the Dow family dead by poisoning. They also mentioned that I was crazy to stay there as the gardener and his wife had been the main suspects.
   All the time I lived there (about 1 1/2 years) I never saw the owners or family even once show up there. I always assumed that it was a DOW family but the place was just full of Black Horse stuff.
   The main estate and the guest house were just unbelievable, like a scene from The Munsters. Stacked full with antiques not to mention an old Chriscraft and an old Harvard Trainer without wings.
I have been trying to find out for years what this place was all about. Madi ,the old gardener called it the Dow estate, and never wanted to talk about its owners or history. This is the first time I have seen the name Black Horse mentioned , so I decided to write.
Regards, Jurgen (The Haunted )