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Article: Buffalo likes its beer, especially Labatt's.

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The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
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September 19, 2005
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Byline: Michelle Kearns

Sep. 19--Decades after the steel plants closed, the blue collar traditions of the Buffalo region hang on in the beer drinking ways that keep beer delivery truck driver Jim Green employed.

The drink of the European immigrant workers who settled here a century ago is still a favorite beverage. A marketing survey found half the adults in this western part of the state had at least one beer in the past month.

Green admits that he's among those who like to sip a cold one at the end of his work day.

"I keep a lot of people working," he kidded as he neared the end of his day unloading 670 cases of Labatt Blue, ...

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