My cheap, crap, boat beers are Genie Cream Ale & Bud Light Lime. But if other boaters putter over to chat, we pull out more classy stuff.
Hell, the Chicago corner bar nearest my daughter’s apartment has a god damn Hamm’s sign hanging out front! Gotta stop in later.
My favorite cheap beer is Burger. I believe it is one of the very few cheap beers that uses 100% barley (no corn or rice).
Thank you T-man. One (moving) picture is worth a thousand words.
Ah yes, Hamm’s. The suds your grandfather drank while bowling.
A local punk rock emporium stocks the stuff on a “Shelf Of Shame” alongside several other flavors to be had for the princely sum of two bucks.
My go-to there is Genny Cream Ale, a beer whose taste I acquired a couple of decades ago when a New York City bar used them for open bars. As we all know the best beer is free beer, but now I’ll gladly pony up two bucks plus a tip.
Do you mean Bergie! Exclamation point included. That was Hamms’ “cheap beer”
When I was a kid, my uncle would bring by a six pack occasionally. Us kids would beg sips from all the adults. My father remarked, “all kids like beer”. I remember it had plenty of hoppy bitters, but probably not aroma. I have it occasionally and find it better than all the American light lagers, especially better than Miller, PBR, and definitely the scab beer Coors. Yes, I know, there is no boycott anymore, but I want nothing to do with the Coors family, and you don’t either if you have morals. BTW it is also better than Corona. I could never understand why anyone would drink that shit.
Back about 1974 or so, I worked a couple of days as a casual at the Hamms brewery in San Francisco. There was a sensor on the packaging line which detected incompletely filled cans and blew them off the line with a blast of air. They were trash, but the tax man would not allow them to go directly into the bin. They had to be punctured first. To accomplish this, they set up a open-top 55 gallon steel drum and hung a steel hook over the edge with a sharp point facing up on the inside of the lip of the drum. My job was to take each can and slam it down on the point to puncture it. This is absolutely no shit. Of course, beer was flying everywhere. After a few minutes I didn’t care anymore that I was soaked in beer. Why? Because at breaktime we went to the lunchroom, which was more like a barroom. There was a room length cooler along one wall. Help yourself! So yeah, beer on the outside, and beer on the inside. Some of the guys were pretty lit up by quitting time, but nobody seemed to care. I doubt if they do this anymore. The fuckin’ lawyers probably put an end to it. Sigh.
Trader Joe’s Simpler Times Pilsener is particularly good for a cheap beer, if my memory is good.
During college days there was a great little place called the P & H Cafe (Poor and Hungry) that had a special of a greasy hamburger and a schooner of draft Hamm’s for $3.95. Spent many afternoons playing shuffleboard and drinking Hamm’s.
Just picked up a 30 pack from Meijer yesterday. Its’ virtues include being very affordable, and it comes from the land of sky blue waters (water). Cartoon bears also seem to be quite partial to it. Oh, and did I mention it’s quite affordable? Well it is.
Was looking at the FB page for The Barrel House in Dayton, OH, and noticed Hamm’s listed on the beer list. (#3 in the list.) Cheap, too!
But when you can get a Bell’s Oarsman or Lagunitas IPA at $5 a 32 oz (same price as Hamm’s at that size and up), the choice is easy.
I did not know you were a hipster. [d&r]
I remember PBR as the beer of the infamous Clermont Lounge in Atlanta …
I grew up in the Land of Pleasant Living and these commercials ran non-stop during radio broadcasts of Orioles (pronounced, “OOOreeoos”) and Baltimore Colts (pronounced, “Bawlmer Coats”) games in the '60’s and '70’s…it was the first beer I tasted when I was about 12 (1974) - my cousin and my brother swiped some at a family picnic…
Oh, man, since I went to undergrad in the Finger Lakes region of NY, we drank a lot of Genny Cream as it was the cheapest beer we could get in half kegs…I don’t remember the exact cost, but I’m thinking it was in the $16 - 18 range…of course, over-indulgence lead to a rather unfortunate condition the next day that we termed, “The Genny Screams”…
After all, we had to make our ‘entertainment’ dollars stretch as there were Grateful Dead concerts to be seen and party favors that need to be purchased…
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I don’t drink Hamm’s, but I have this sign.(Youtube)
The greatest beer sign that was ever invented, or that would ever be invented.
Oh, yeah, I resembled that remark…the irony is I have a BS in chemistry and an MS in organic chemistry…too bad I wasted my time studying and practicing polymer chemistry because my former hobbies would have bode me well today…as I always say, if God had wanted me to be rich, he would have told me to buy Microsoft stock in 1985…