# The Great Crappy Beer Appreciation Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 9, 2007, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147 "2007-10-09T22:58:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/61 "2007-10-10T15:53:41Z")
[QUOTE=Birdmonster] I am ashamed to have touted the goodness of Tecate earlier in this thread. It’s like forgetting my kid’s birthday. [/QUOTE] Ah. That should be “I am ashamed to have **not** touted the goodness…” I plead “8:45 in the morning.” ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/62 "2007-10-10T16:04:10Z")
[QUOTE=Birdmonster] Oh, I’ll be ordering Pearl next time I’m in Texas. I honestly can’t think of a beer so Crappy (big “C”) that it would actually be crappy (little “c”). I’m more than willing to be proven wrong. [/QUOTE] Pearl’s acceptable, but Pearl Light…if you want an idea of what to expect from a Pearl Light, get a Milwaukee’s Best Light and mix it about 50-50 with tap water. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/63 "2007-10-10T16:07:49Z")
[QUOTE=ScareyFaerie] With so many crappy US beers to be avoided, I think when I travel over there in November I shall stick to cocktails and champagne! [/QUOTE] That would be a mistake, in case you’re serious. Find yourself a good beer bar. I would have to say that there’s hardly a better place for a beer drinker than in America right now. ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/64 "2007-10-10T16:43:11Z")
Milwaukee’s Best was the cheap shitty beer of choice when I was in College. I seem to recall it was about thirty or forty bucks for a keg of it. Natural Light was also popular. I remember Dime beers somewhat fondly. I used to love Genesee Creme Ale and [Mickey’s](http://www.mickeys.com/). A friend of mine worked out that buying forties was cheaper than buying six packs and cases so that was what we drank. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/65 "2007-10-10T18:37:44Z")
I’ve always thought PBR would get more love if it didn’t have the ‘Grampa Pappy’ stigma attached to it. You know there’s some forgotten foreign country out there wild about the stuff 'cause it has the exotic American import image. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/66 "2007-10-10T18:40:11Z")
[QUOTE=Sitnam] I’ve always thought PBR would get more love if it didn’t have the ‘Grampa Pappy’ stigma attached to it. You know there’s some forgotten foreign country out there wild about the stuff 'cause it has the exotic American import image. [/QUOTE] It’s called the Republic of Hipster-Doofi. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/67 "2007-10-10T18:45:23Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] It’s called the Republic of Hipster-Doofi. [/QUOTE] Of course, the Republic _itself_ is practically deserted, since 90% of its population is currently attending college in the United States. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/68 "2007-10-10T18:45:27Z")
[QUOTE=Ichbin Dubist] My cheap(ish) beer of choice for home purchase is some flavor or other from Yuengling Brewery, which despite the name is not Chinese but from Pennsyltucky. It’s a steal around here, but I understand it’s sold as a premium beer far from its source. [/QUOTE] I thought that this thread was about crappy beer. There’s no f-in way Yuengling falls into that category. It may be inexpensive in places, but definitely not cheap and crappy. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/69 "2007-10-10T18:51:53Z")
[QUOTE=Sitnam] You know there’s some forgotten foreign country out there wild about the stuff 'cause it has the exotic American import image. [/QUOTE] Like an inverse for Corona or Red Stripe? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rhythmonly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rhythmonly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhythmonly)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/70 "2007-10-10T19:25:46Z")
Anyone remember original Olympia beer? They decided to switch to something called Oly Gold in the mid 70’s. A friend of my dad’s would drive for hours on end, searching for the original, then load up cases of it when he found it. The best beer that I’ve ever had was Heineken in a can. Best beer I’ve ever had on a scorching hot day was one called Tequiza. It was like a Corona with a lime in it. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/71 "2007-10-10T21:00:46Z")
I was sitting here trying to remember if pop-top cans hit the market before I turned 21 in August of 1970. I know I opened some with a churchkey when I was underage. I’ve sampled most of the beers mentioned so far. Hudepohl, they sang, was “the beer to have when you’re having more than one.” The Wiedemann’s riverboat captain said, “I recommend it to your attention.” Carling Black Label’s Mabel was a cutie. Fallstaff was made in Evansville until some bigger company bought the brand. I don’t know where Falls City was made. When Hamm’s and Stroh’s were the cheap beers, we drank a whole lot of it. One of them was sold for a while in an aluminum mini-keg, and it took a surprisingly short time to go through one on a hot day. Until Coors Banquet began to be sold nationwide, you had to know a truck driver who could bring you back a case. I still don’t know what the fuss was about. As if Coors Banquet wasn’t boring enough, they made Coors Light. It’s beer for people who don’t like beer. I’d like to see a blind test between Dasani and Coors Light. :rolleyes: I read the other day there’s a merger in the works between South Africa Brewing (Miller) and Coors Brewing. :eek: That’s a major tilt of the playing field. ---
**Author:** ![SharkB8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@SharkB8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SharkB8)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/72 "2007-10-10T21:13:32Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] My youngest son, when visiting from Seattle, is tickled that he can get Milwaukee’s Best here. Milwaukee’s Best. The kid was weaned on Henry’s, and he wants Milwaukee’s Best. :dubious: I miss Schlitz. Can’t find Schlitz anywhere. Or Grain Belt. I think Grain Belt had extra salt. [/QUOTE] I enjoyed some Grain Belt by the pitcher at my hometown’s (shot out to Eden Prairie, Minnesota!) carnival summer before last. Nothing like sweat flavored beer served in a plastic cup from a plastic pitcher. And my all time 2nd favorite beer is delicious to me, loved by the locals for cheapness and flavor is Narraganset Lager…It’s really a tie with Yuengling, which I can’t get here…so gotta go with a Gannie. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/73 "2007-10-10T21:23:35Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] When Hamm’s and Stroh’s were the cheap beers, we drank a whole lot of it. One of them was sold for a while in an aluminum mini-keg, and it took a surprisingly short time to go through one on a hot day. [/QUOTE] That would be Hamm’s Draft, which was introduced in 1973-74 or thereabouts. I remember those cans fondly. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/74 "2007-10-10T21:25:01Z")
Haven’t read the whole thread yet, but I can’t be the first to mention Natural Ice, can I? It’s cheap, tastes like beer, unlike Bud and its ilk, and has more alcohol (5.9%) than standard American beers. Keystone Ice is the Miller / Coors version, but it tastes terrible to me. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/75 "2007-10-10T22:32:35Z")
[QUOTE=Birdmonster] Did you realize Pabst bought Schaefer? I just checked the Pabst homepage and was positively awed by their status as, undoubtedly, the world’s greatest purveyor of Crappy Beer. The list: Ballantine Ale… [/QUOTE] No need to go any farther. Long before microbrews, (when Falstaff brewed them) Ballantine was the only affordable IPA in town; Samuel Smith IPA was about $4 a bottle, and usually skunked by the time it made it here. Bally also made a Brewer’s Gold Lager that was pretty good. But their flagship ale (okay, more like a tugboat) was still pretty darn good, and it was even better than that on tap. It’s what [Reagan drank at the Eire Pub](http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/06/06/at_dorchester_pub_a_president_made_the_rounds/) when he visited town. [QUOTE=scotandrsn] Back in Boston years ago, the legendary Sunset Grill and Tap had a special: All beers from Cincinnati were a dollar that night. [/QUOTE] And just down the street at the Inn Square Men’s Bar (“Ladies Welcome”, now gone, replaced by the S&S restaurant expansion) you could buy a toothglass of [Pickwick Ale](http://www.falstaffbrewing.com/haffenreffer.htm) (another Falstaff classic) for thiry five cents before 8 pm. You’d queue up with some rather questionable sorts at 7:45 and go back with as many as you could carry. Although the stuff started to taste like battery acid in later years. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/76 "2007-10-10T23:06:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **AskNott** > > I was sitting here trying to remember if pop-top cans hit the market before I turned 21 in August of 1970. I know I opened some with a churchkey when I was underage. I’ve sampled most of the beers mentioned so far. Hudepohl, they sang, was **“the beer to have when you’re having more than one.”** Bolding mine. Not to come off like an heir to their hoppy fortune, but wasn’t that Schaefer’s slogan? “Schaefer is the one beer to have, when you’re having more than one.” I remember that distinctly because they were a big sponsor of the Mets games I watched with my father. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/77 "2007-10-10T23:11:01Z")
[QUOTE=Southern Yankee] Bolding mine. Not to come off like an heir to their hoppy fortune, but wasn’t that Schaefer’s slogan? “Schaefer is the one beer to have, when you’re having more than one.” I remember that distinctly because they were a big sponsor of the Mets games I watched with my father. [/QUOTE] In stark contrast to the infinitely lamer “Enjoy Responsibly” that every alcohol ad feels obliged (is perhaps legally obliged?) to include. I miss the good ol’ days when beers had slogans that promoted drunkenness. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/78 "2007-10-10T23:12:23Z")
I was thinking the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/79 "2007-10-10T23:18:25Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] [For those too masochistic to take silenus’s word for it, here ya go.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=iz-WuLQz_ns) [/QUOTE] More of the best of the Crappy Beer ads: [Hamm’s](http://youtube.com/watch?v=hc7HoWEk6y8) [Rainier](http://youtube.com/watch?v=E4uZEIgHk3A&mode=related&search=) [Schlitz Malt Liquor](http://youtube.com/watch?v=Po72QCwapbQ&mode=related&search=) [Colt 45](http://youtube.com/watch?v=QhzKWMk3kow&mode=related&search=) ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/80 "2007-10-10T23:28:21Z")
I have to admit I feel a little guilty enjoying this thread while sipping an Abita Restoration Ale. \Abita is my first or second favorite American brewery (along with Sierra Nevada.) \ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147.md?page=5)