Small correction. Yuengling was a miner's beer- Pottsville is in the lower central area of the eastern Pa. coal belt. "Vitamin Y" was THE way to cut the dust after a shift- primarily with a black n' tan.Nati Ice. Used to be considered swill for the alcoholic in you, and now has undergone a remarkable transformation into swill for the alcoholic in me.
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As a juvenile, we used to be able to be able to steal 12 packs of Kassel beer out of the Handy Andy. It was cool because it had these cool picto-puzzles in the bottle caps. Later, when I was one of the first in my group to get a job and started buying beer, I insisted on Miller High Life. I thought it was ‘high end’.
Oh, and for Lone Star? I grew up in TX and would rather drink the piss out of my boot than drink that. Or maybe even Coors.
What’s funny is that Rolling Rock started as just another second-tier regional beer (like Old Style/Lone Star/Iron City/Genesse/Narragansett/etc.). Someday I’d love to shake the hand of the marketing guy who made Rolling Rock nationally desirable.
Otherwise known as The Sausage Law.
And now, courtesy of my memory of early TV days, same period, the jingles are running through my head . . . “What’ll you have? Pabst Blue Ribbon! What’ll you have? Pabst Blue Ribbon! What’ll you have? Pabst Blue Ribbon! Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer!” and [to tom-toms] “Hamm’s, the beer refreshing. Hamm’s, the beer refreshing.”
I think I feel the opposite on Leinie’s… I never remember people drinking it until about 8-10 years ago. Now you can’t go into a bar without seeing a canoe on the tapper. Spotted Cow also used to be a special beer that you couldn’t find in to many places. Now the jumping cow is right next to the canoe in every bar.
This may just be because I live in WI.
Mmmmmmm… Spotted cow… yum!
Ahh, Nati Ice, and the even more vile Nati Light. I have many fond memories of nights when I drank this shit in college. The mornings after however…not so much.
Remember when FOSTERS made it to the USA (“Its Austrlian for Piss”). The main draw was the oversize cans. I don’t see it anymore-maybe people have wised up.
How about the various Carribean beers (Red Stripe, Caribe, etc.)-most of them are pleasant, light beers, with very little flavor. Plus, mos of tem are stale by the time they reach the USA.
Oh, how I wish New Glarus brews were distributed in Illinois…
Gotta be Killians. I started drinking it in 96ish when I was living in the dorms on base. I was the only one who drank it and it was only availible in the class six. I felt elite and extreme. It was my primary beer until a couple of years ago when I realized it tasted like shit and gave me a headache like a motherfucker.
Now I drink whatever red or pale I can get my hands on.
Can’t drink the light shit though.
Lately I’ve been drinking a lot of Innis and Gunn. Damn that’s good beer. Where does it rate on the hip-o-meter these days?
I hear they are in MN now so maybe they will make it past the cheese curtain your ways.
Not that I really want to share my beer with a bunch of flat landers…
Hey! I didn’t know my father was on this board!
Between every inning of Baltimore Orioles baseball listened to on an AM radio from 200 miles away from ages 13-15:
“National Beer, National beer
You’ll like the taste of National Beer
It’s from the land of pleasant living,
We bring you National Beer”
Let’s see, 162 games a year, 9 innings a game, 3 years…
Small wonder I went to college 10 blocks from the ball yard and my first real job was hawking National Beer at Orioles games!
I hope so, but I don’t blame New Glarus if they avoid Illinois. The beer distribution racket here is what you what expect from this state. Bell’s had a whole fiasco with our distribution and pulled their beers off the market for about a year or so. (They’re back in Illinois again.)
Heineken was a bit on the higher end of beers. Now its pretty commonplace.
I think its luster started to come off once people tasted it.