My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer.
Which one of you used an empty case to post as a trail marker on Silver Creek Rd. just below the Wilderness boundary for the Never Summer Wilderness? It did make the winter crossing easier to find, so thanks, you litterer.
Schaefer wasn’t that common out in these parts. Our cheap-ass beers of choice back in the day were Hamms, Olympia and if we were really broke Lucky Lager.
Never see Hamms here. We had Olympia and Genesee Cream Ale was another cheapy.
Schaefer was pretty crappy, but around '92 there was a pair of bars nearby that had 35¢ and 50¢ tap beers. Both had Schaefer and it was the best of their cheapy tap choices. Schlitz (Shits) was one of the choices and I think Pabst was another.
It was fun to hang out with friends for as long as you wanted and leave a fiver which meant a generous tip.
I probably would not have included the word “inoffensive” in that description, but the rest of it seems right to me.
Another description I would agree with.
Drank both (and Pabst) in my college days when I was too poor to be able to afford anything good. Haven’t touched them since.
Hamm’s
Rainier - My favorite when visiting family in Washington.
Come to think of it, I first tried Schaefer in, of all places Alaska back in the 70s.
Small local breweries in Central MN - we’d drink Fox Deluxe or Fitger’s, generally 3 cases for $10 in the late 1970’s. Returnable bottles, so once you’d built up a stack of empties, you could turn them to finance the next purchase.
And, yes, you could have swapped them out each time, but that would involve planning as opposed to “hey, we’re in town and nearly out of beer, let’s pick some more up”.
For the record, I’ve never even been to Colorado; neither the Twiggy side nor the Angie Dickenson side. I’ve had invites, sure. Baptisms, First Communions, etc. Also yes, my truck could easily climb Pike’s Peak.
But bring beer there? That wasn’t me.
I think Lowenbrau was originally a good German beer, but the name in the US was bought by Miller or something and was made into another crappy American beer. I think the good stuff was still available in Germany.
Aha, just check with Wiki page:
In 1975, Miller Brewing acquired the North American rights to Löwenbräu. After two years of exports, Miller began brewing Löwenbräu domestically with an Americanized recipe, and exports of Munich Löwenbräu to North America ceased. Anheuser-Busch, whose Michelob brand Miller had intended Löwenbräu to compete with, called the attention of regulators and the public to the changes Miller had made to mass-produce the beer for the American market, changes which introduced artificial ingredients that would not have been allowed under the German Reinheitsgebot that Miller had advertised Löwenbräu as being compliant with. No regulatory action was taken, but sales of Löwenbräu dropped to the point where it was clear the brand would not seriously compete with Michelob for the premium-beer segment.
As to the OP, yes, I’ve had Schaefer, but I think I had more Schmidts back then, because my mother liked it.
Some one mentioned Natty Light beer earlier in the thread…I see that it was a real brand “Natural Light”, whereas I only thought it was a fake brand from the “House Party” game popular a few years ago (spelled a bit differently as Natty Lite, but still).
As for Schaefer (the one beer to have), as a meddling Long Island kid in the 1970s, and a Mets follower at the time, I knew Schaefer well enough by name and jingles. My dad, of the more enlighten and intelligent European outlook on alcohol consumption by kids, would often give me a sip of beer, normally Schaefer but also Rheingold and likely Bud. Quite frankly they all tasted pretty poor to me so I never did develop a great love for beer (even later when I could afford better beers, never could get much enthusiasm about them). Turned out for the best really, since for me beer is definitely one thing I “never buy, only rent”…
Me too.
Me three. It was watery and tasteless, but if someone offered me one out of the cooler I’d still take it.
schaefers beer is still around? Wow, I thought that had gone away decades ago (it has around here far as I know).
Man, that brings back some memories of hanging outside the 7-11 hoping to get someone to, errrm, NOT buy us beer. Always schaefers, cause that’s all the money we could muster.
In select cities. I think it’s a Midwest thing now. I thought it was dead, too, but I used to get it in the Rust Belt a couple of years back. I tried it for nostalgia’s sake.
You can get Heileman’s Old Style in Chicago but when I was out in Oregon, I went to a bar owned by a nut-job Cubs fan and he went out of his way to get Heileman’s there. Strangest shit I ever saw b/c Oregon wasn’t their normal distribution chain.
Fathers! Save your children from a life of alcoholism. It’s as easy as serving them crap beer!
Do it today, and you can keep a young child like Timmy here from wasting his money, and life, with the good stuff.
Brought to you by the Crappy Beer Council of America, who reminds you to pass out before you get behind the wheel.