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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: RobJohnson on January 12, 2013, 01:22:00 PM
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The #1 Beer on the list was sort of a shock to me. I don't drink but always remember #1 being so popular, so high end.
BEER (http://247wallst.com/2012/12/03/nine-beers-americans-no-longer-drink/2/)
Others don't really shock me, like this one:
6. Miller Genuine Draft
> Sales loss (2006-2011): 52.3%
> Brewer: MillerCoors
> Barrels sold (2011): 1.6 million
Miller Genuine Draft, marketed as having “the fresh taste of draft beer in a bottle,†has lost consumers’ attention in recent years. It was one of just six beers that had sales volume fall by half between 2006 and 2011. During this time, the total number of Miller Genuine Draft barrels sold fell by 1.7 million, more than any other beer on this list. Only one other brand bottled by MillerCoors — Miller Lite — had a larger decline in barrels sold over this time span.
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There are so many good Micro-Brews no a days... I hardly fool with those on the list. I can always count on a good Budweiser if there isn't anything else though.
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I dunno; I haven't drank since 1987, but it's interesting.
Even before 1987, Milwaukee's Best was constantly derided as a lousy beer--I think it even sold for $2.50 a case in Lincoln, Nebraska, circa the early 1980s, it was that bad.
It's sad to see the decline of Michelob, a fine beer I always thought, at least back then.
I was always a fan of the lighter beers, especially Olympia and some beer with a Danish name (although I think it was domestic) that I no longer remember. And Coors, of course.
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I'm thinking here.
Try to think of beers that were heavily advertised during the early 1980s, but didn't quite make it.
I think the other beer I liked, the "Danish" one, was Tuborg.
But I could be wrong--it was light.
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Once had a PBR beer and cold apple pie from the fridge for breakfast.....it's no wonder I never drank much.
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Once had a PBR beer and cold apple pie from the fridge for breakfast.....it's no wonder I never drank much.
Fat Che's Little Brothert Blue Ribbon was apparently once very popular, but by the time I was around, it went into decline, and had all but disappeared. Then later (the 1980s?), it was resurrected by someone else, but it's not the same as it had been.
Also, Hamm's and Falstaff (Nebraska's beer) were popular yet when I was small, but disappeared.
When a brand goes out of business, sometimes someone else buys the name and caters to the nostalgia market; I think this is the case with Beeches' (sp-?) chewing gum.
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Falstaff was brewed in St. Louis.
LINK (http://www.falstaffbrewing.com/)
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Schlitz, Little Kings, Red/White and Blue.
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Falstaff was brewed in St. Louis.
LINK (http://www.falstaffbrewing.com/)
Also Omaha.
I believe the Falstaff brewery was the last one to close.
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Oh, it's amazing what one will drink when one is in college and broke.
Or worse still, when one tries to "go native". Primo Beer is something I wouldn't wish on nadin. Thankfully it no longer exists.
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There is a beer in Korea that we drank when we got broke towards the end of the month or wanted a lot of beer to drink while on pass or whatever. It was made from rice instead of wheat and other things like our beers and it tasted kind like beer flavored water.
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There is a beer in Korea that we drank when we got broke towards the end of the month or wanted a lot of beer to drink while on pass or whatever. It was made from rice instead of wheat and other things like our beers and it tasted kind like beer flavored water.
Was that OB beer?
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There is a beer in Korea that we drank when we got broke towards the end of the month or wanted a lot of beer to drink while on pass or whatever. It was made from rice instead of wheat and other things like our beers and it tasted kind like beer flavored water.
When I was in Honduras I was intoduced to a Japanese beer. Two beers did the trick, the first one was chugged then you could sip the second. Was actually a nasty tasting beer but after chugging the first and coating the inside of the mouth and throat the second wasn't too terrible to drink and 2 beers gave you a comfortable buzz.
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Fat Che's Little Brothert Blue Ribbon was apparently once very popular, but by the time I was around, it went into decline, and had all but disappeared. Then later (the 1980s?), it was resurrected by someone else, but it's not the same as it had been.
Also, Hamm's and Falstaff (Nebraska's beer) were popular yet when I was small, but disappeared.
When a brand goes out of business, sometimes someone else buys the name and caters to the nostalgia market; I think this is the
case with Beeches' (sp-?) chewing gum.
Growing up as a kid I remember all the Hamm's beer commercials on TV, they all had some type of live grizzly bear in them...
All the old family pictures of my dad and his brothers show cans of Falstaff on the kitchen table when I was young.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9nBDBbUYvUs/UAJg4ls0GCI/AAAAAAAAF8c/Mm8XnzsQN4A/s1600/falstaff_beer_280x500.gif)
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When I lived in Masshole, I remember a particularly egregious concoction called Narragansett beer, whose brewery is still apparently churning out that nasty piss they call beer.
If you want to really offend your co-workers, go into a bar on a work night that has that shit on tap, quaff a couple of quarts, munch down about a half-dozen quahogs and pickled eggs, and just let that shit ferment over night in your guts.
You'll come out smelling like a rose. :-)
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When I lived in Masshole, I remember a particularly egregious concoction called Narragansett beer, whose brewery is still apparently churning out that nasty piss they call beer.
If you want to really offend your co-workers, go into a bar on a work night that has that shit on tap, quaff a couple of quarts, munch down about a half-dozen quahogs and pickled eggs, and just let that shit ferment over night in your guts.
You'll come out smelling like a rose. :-)
RI swill. Boston = Sam Adams.
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RI swill. Boston = Sam Adams.
Used to be a time when Sam Adams was considered a microbrew. I'd think by now they've graduated to something beyond a microbrew, but yeah, it's a good beer.
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When I was in Honduras I was intoduced to a Japanese beer. Two beers did the trick, the first one was chugged then you could sip the second. Was actually a nasty tasting beer but after chugging the first and coating the inside of the mouth and throat the second wasn't too terrible to drink and 2 beers gave you a comfortable buzz.
I remember the beer in Panama was too horrible to make that work. Between nitrites in it to stabilize it in the hear, and a national limit on alcohol content that was something like 3.5 percent, I got a pounding headache from it before I could consume enough to get any kind of a buzz at all. Probably about 15 years ago and I don't remember the brand names of the local beers, but the experience has made me pretty leery of anything brewed south of the border.
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I remember in the 70's when everyone started to have beer can collections. People would have walls and walls of cans
Did anyone here have one?
(http://www.rustycans.com/Graphics/Billy.GIF)
:lmao:
How the price was driven up on Billy cans (http://www.rustycans.com/HISTORY/billy.html)
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I remember Falstaff in college. You could get a case of bottles for 3 bucks and the bottlecaps had rebus puzzles on the inside of them to solve.
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Schmidt
Black Label
Ballantine
the shit list is endless.........
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There is a beer in Korea that we drank when we got broke towards the end of the month or wanted a lot of beer to drink while on pass or whatever. It was made from rice instead of wheat and other things like our beers and it tasted kind like beer flavored water.
OB?
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Used to be a time when Sam Adams was considered a microbrew. I'd think by now they've graduated to something beyond a microbrew, but yeah, it's a good beer.
Some of them are okay. Some of them taste like rat's piss. Shipyard has some good stuff. Ditto with Red Hook and Alligash, and every time and I remember to take the growlers I stop at Moat Mountain Brewery.
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Nastygansett was the worst! In college, guys would keep it warm and under the bed, guaranteeing their roommates wouldn't steal it.
Mabel Black Label = Headache in a can. Bud Light is the same, for me.
Gennie, and Gennie Cream Ale. Anybody drink that? You could get it dirt cheap. My mom had the worst taste in beers. She like that, and Old Milwaukee.
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Meister Brau anyone? :cheersmate:
ETA:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tw4iensEpE[/youtube]
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My beer is Rhinegold, the dry beer,
Think of Rhinegold whenever you buy beer
It's refreshing, not sweet
It's the extra dry treat!
Won't you try extra dry Rhinegold beer?
:whistling:
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Other cheap beer from HS and college -- Genny Cream Ale (puke!) and Goebbels (pronounce it like "zho-belle" to be really obnoxious), the beer of French kings (no not really, just a joke back then)
Also in college, if you were under 21, it was 3.2% only so a lot of PBR Extra Light and some other extra light beer on tap for us poor under 21 suckers at the uptown bars.
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Other cheap beer from HS and college -- Genny Cream Ale (puke!) and Goebbels (pronounce it like "zho-belle" to be really obnoxious), the beer of French kings (no not really, just a joke back then).
Otherwise known as "Genny Screamers" for the hangovers it would produce. :tongue:
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Otherwise known as "Genny Screamers" for the hangovers it would produce. :tongue:
Another not-so-good idea (from HS) was drinking blackberry 'brandy' with GCA as a chaser . . . oh man, what a puke-athon! :puke:
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Another not-so-good idea (from HS) was drinking blackberry 'brandy' with GCA as a chaser . . . oh man, what a puke-athon! :puke:
Beringer White Zinfandel with Coors Light as a chaser, topped with cheap tequila shots.
I do not imbibe in any of the above mentioned, and have not for 26 years. :thatsright:
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Meister Brau anyone? :cheersmate:
ETA:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tw4iensEpE[/youtube]
The first beer I ever puked up. Ah, the memories....
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The first beer I ever puked up. Ah, the memories....
They say you never forget your first . . .
:-)
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They say you never forget your first . . .
:-)
Yeah, never forgot my second, either.
(http://www.retrobeeritems.flyingcart.com/images/falls%20city%20mouse%202%20new.jpg)
:puke:
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Schmidt
Black Label
Ballantine
the shit list is endless.........
I knew a few people that collected these cans:
(http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/UncleDearest/COMPLETE_SET_of_STRAIGHT_STEEL_Schmidt_Scene_Beer_Cans.jpg)
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I knew a few people that collected these cans:
(http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/UncleDearest/COMPLETE_SET_of_STRAIGHT_STEEL_Schmidt_Scene_Beer_Cans.jpg)
Actually, that's pretty cool. :cheersmate:
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Otherwise known as "Genny Screamers" for the hangovers it would produce. :tongue:
Oh now I remember. The headaches were pure torture.
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Actually, that's pretty cool. :cheersmate:
I thought it was a nice blast from the past!
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Oh now I remember. The headaches were pure torture.
Any type of ice beer would give me a h/a. Even if I just had one. Not sure what it was.
Remember when Icehouse was popular, all these other brands of ice beer (cold filtered, higher alch. content) came out..... I had friends that bought it because they would get a quicker buzz........it was a total bummer for me the next day.
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Fishing in Minnesota, it was Grain Belt, or Hamms.
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More moons ago than I care to remember, I drank Ballentine Ale while station at Bragg. The watery crap they sold in the PX was 3.2 and it took a lot to get a buzz. Pisses came easy though. Later, as a civilian I drank a lot of Pearl Beer, which wasn't bad unless you got a green one and then the drizzlies were no charge. Sold big in Texas, though. Anyone ever hear of Southern Select. Sold in SE Texas especially during the Big War to End All Wars, Version Two.
I never drank the beer while in Korea; the hard stuff was plentiful and cheap, and it paid to be friends with the Company Clerk and First Pig.
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(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kU6-q4MYbJc/T41ft6RyKHI/AAAAAAAAC0E/AjXbaeuy9M0/s400/mickeysbeer.jpg)
:banghead:
Popular while I was in high school...."wide mouth" beer.
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The first beer I ever tasted was Schlitz when I was 13 or 14 and wondered how anyone could drink the stuff.
One learns.
We used to have Matz beer balls at high school partys as it was a cheap alternative to a keg.
I still drink Genny today as well as it is cheap and I go for quantity over quality. :cheersmate:
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I thoroughly enjoyed this:
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i317/Eupher6/urquell-1.jpg)
No, this is not an American mass-produced beer, therefore it is not rat piss. It's brewed in the Czech Republic and, on tap, it's the best beer I've ever tasted, IMHO.
Something for the American microbrews (and I admit there are several that are excellent) to emulate. :cheersmate: