Oh, sure. Its still made. I pee every morning. 
Whatever happened to Point beer?
Still going strong, introducing new flavors and types all the time.
snort You just don’t get its appeal, do you? :rolleyes: It’s brewed to taste skunked right out of the brewery because it DOESN’T NEED to be better than other beers.
Well, you see back then it was- many of the things we take for granted today:
fresh pure ingredients, shipping cold other efforts to stop the beer from getting “skunky” and such -
were unusual in a mass market beer. Coors was one of the best mass market beers out there-* then.*
Since then, Coors has been widely and commonly overtaken and what they did then is standard today.
Its still a decent beer, but now there are so many which are so much better.
Seriously, to actually contribute to the thread, Red Dog seemed heavily advertised back in the mid 90’s. To my adolescent mind it SEEMED hip, but by the time I tried some in college, it was probably on par with Schaefer (isn’t that the one that they advertised as something cheap?).
I used to think Heineken was the shit back in my college days. Maybe it has changed over the years but I had one recently and was underwhelmed.
Whoever mentioned Blatz up thread as beer needs to be beaten. As poor military privates we had to rely on Blatz to get our buzz on. I think it was something like 5.99 for a case back in 1984.
Sharing a room with two other guys the next morning is still really memorable. Who knew farts could smell so bad?
I remember when I first saw Killian’s Red. My friends and I considered it akin to a fine microbrew. Now, I wouldn’t even touch it.
They’ve actually changed the formula on Killian’s and it’s better than it used to be. Still overpriced, but not as overpriced as Corona.
And Schlitz. When I worked in liquor stores back in the 70s, both Stroh’s and Schlitz were up there in terms of quality and sales with Bud and Miller High Life. Both are currently produced by Pabst, I believe.
Schlitz has relaunched the brand recently using the original 1960’s formula, which I suppose is supposed to be better than whatever they’ve been using for the last 40+ years. It only comes in bottles as far as I can tell, and it’s got a premium lowbrow price scheme. I usually find it for $6 or $7 a six pack. It’s pretty decent stuff to go with burgers or wings.
When I used to drink Southpaw back in the late 90s it was a good $3 or $4 more than the regular domestics - priced about like Stella Artois is today. Now, if you can even find it, it’s hiding on the bottom shelf, priced about like Busch. And I don’t know what changed - my taste buds or the formula - but it tastes like shit now.
Yeah, what’s up with Corona pricing?
It’s only adequate beer, priced as premium.:dubious:
Actually as it goes, Corona is quite possibly the most expensive non-Belgian or non-microbrew out there. That stuff is upwards of $30 a case.
My girlfriend and her family love the stuff, I know it to be nothing but some quasi Miller High Life type beer in a fancy bottle. Who knows why it’s so expensive, it’s shite beer that needs a lime to mask the flavor. Maybe those bottles are hand painted and the bottle painters union is a real powerful one. It’s funny, if it’s time for lawnmower beer they look down on me for drinking PBR or Old Style and I look down at them for drinking Corona. At least my half rack only cost $7.
Corona is absolutely awful, IMO. The worst Mexican beer sold in the US; worse than Tecate and Chihuahua and not even in the same league as Dos XX’s Lager or Modelo Especial. I think it’s expensive because it’s incredibly popular with college kids for some inexplicable reason.
Corona is all marketing. The beer is decent but nothing special. And what’s up with the limes they serve with it? That’s tequila you lunkheads.
As I understand it from my stepfather who used to be a muckety muck with Barton Brands back in the day the guy who was stuck with the Corona account was getting destroyed because he couldn’t move this shitty Mexican beer anywhere in the country. He tried everything to get this brand to catch on and one day decided to treat it like tequila, with salt and lime. The salt portion wasn’t a hit, but somehow that little lime ritual was what did it and Corona blew up. That guy became a very big deal at the company shortly after that.
Interesting. I also sort of like the commercials, a nice peaceful beach scene for a while, instead of blaring music and fast cuts or inane drivel like many commercials.
They also sponsor a lot of stuff down in Mexico to get the spring break crowds into the brand, which is why it’s a popular beer with college kids despite being expensive. Those commericals either remind those who drank 13 of them at Senior Frogs and got laid for the first time that Corona is the vacation beer or it makes people who have never been associate it with warmth and relaxation, and it positions them nicely amongst Miller or Bud who can’t say the same thing.
I would love to see Miller make a parody commercial with people doing the same kinds of things on a frozen January Lake Michigan beach though. That would be hilarious.