Winnipeg brewery pokes fun at Riders with ‘Sask. dozen’ 13 pack [Video]

It may still be August, but the cheap shots that lead up to the Labour Day Classic and the Banjo Bowl between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers have already begun.

Winnipeg’s Trans Canada Brewing Company is bringing back its “Saskatchewan Dozen” beer, a pilsner first introduced in 2023 ahead of a Labour Day Classic that the Riders won in dramatic fashion.

The special edition beers come in a case featuring a referee and an unnamed green football team, with a player wearing number “13” with a wheat stalk sticking out of his mouth, a protruding gut and a banjo to boot. The case also claims to come with a “free penalty flag and whistle.”

Topping off the not-so-subtle digs at the green and white: breaking from the traditional 12 pack to include 13 beers – hence, the Saskatchewan Dozen.

“To commemorate our friends-next-door’s 2009 championship appearance—the one when they played a 13th man …