Ah, to be drinkin’ in Pittsburgh once again. “Gimme a shotta Carstairs and a bottla Arn.”
Jagoff 
As far as Stroh’s goes, it’s a good choice for cheap drinking because it’s one of the rare all-grain “shit” beers out there.
(The list of Pabst contract beers is quite impressive…it’s like the Museum of American Beer pre-1980!)
Even closer than that. I’m near Harrisburg, but I’ve seen it in the Philly beer distributors, too. Mebbe if you hop the border into Pike County you could find some there.
Is Stroh’s the beer who had Alex the dog in their commercials? I seem to remember something about a dog driving to get beer for his owner. It was funny.
It was readily available in Buffalo as recently as last summer, before I moved, and was our funneling beer of choice.
I feel compelled to mention that an ancestor on my father’s side was a brewmaster for Stroh’s for a period.
I don’t know either; I just got my information the usual way by looking at the back of the Old Fashion Vanilla Ice Cream carton.
They claim that the vats, which heat the creme longer than industry standards, were converted from beer brewing to ice cream making.
Wow, this thread (or maybe it was the coffee) is way too mentally stimulating.
- The rational part of my mind is just going “Stroh’s makes Ice Cream. Mildly interesting.” But there’s another part of my mind going “Beer combined with Ice Cream! There really is a Heaven on Earth!”
B. I’ll see your ‘bottla Arn’ and move east (and a little north) to raise you a “Case of Genny”
III. I bet Opal wouldn’t like this thread as much as I do.
Quattro:
Aw, man. Everybody else gets the cool jobs.
Hey flickster, can I be your friend? Huh? can I?
And it’s in England.
Now I have the jingle for their light beer going through my head!
When things are going right,
looks like a Stroh’s Light night
I remember a big Stroh’s plant working at full steam somewhere in the Easton/Bethlehem/Allentown area in the early 90s.
Guess what this Pittsburgher was drinking Saturday? Yunz know I was drinkin’ an Arn n’at!
Quercus, I see your Genny and raise it to Genny 12 Horse. Ah, to be in college and poor and stupid again. Well, I guess 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.
I think so, didn’t Tone-Loc give them a shout out in “Funky Cold Medina”?
Good old Stroh’s. We used to call em Shorts, because that is Stroh’s spelled backward.
My grandpa won a sweepstakes sponsored by Stroh Light back in the early '80s and became a Stroh’s man for life.
Beer and ice cream, by the way, can be an awesome combination. A member of my homebrew club brought a soft-serve ice cream machine to our summer gathering. Ice cream made with Russian Imperial Stout is out-of-this world!
And hey Quercus, if you think designing piping systems is cool, I am a professional brewer, so I must be like triple-cool!
I can’t believe no one’s mentioned Hudepohl-Shoenling yet.
I’m no expert, but I know people who worked at a commercial dairy. The part you may be missing is that ice cream is liquid (albeit a cold, viscous liquid) until the very end when it’s squirted into the retail container. Ice cream is smooth because it’s been quickly frozen to prevent the formation of large ice crystals. Assuming that a brewery has the vessels and pipes to pump, mix, heat and cool liquids, I think it wouldn’t be too hard to adapt them to ice cream.
It seems to be the only cheap, regional brand of beer that hasn’t been mentioned yet.
Sadly, Stroh’s will no longer be made (according to an article I just read two days ago in The Omaha World-Herald, but can’t for the life of me find anywhere).
Just as I was getting my hopes up . . .
On the bright side, I never imagined a thread about a minor brand of cheap beer would be so educational! Thanx, everybody! 
I spent my high school years in Michigan and still recall a class trip to Stroh’s Detroit brewery in 1982. It was the first time I smelled that yeast-y odor of lots of spilled beer, and saw a huge, rattly bottling machine. We were 10th graders, so we didn’t get to taste any beer, but afterwards we got ice cream (which the tour guide proudly stated had more butterfat content by weight than Haagen Dazs) and all the pretzels and Coke we could cram down.
During Prohibition Stroh’s converted not just to ice cream, but to a full-service purveyor of fountain supplies including malt powder, flavored syrups, seltzer chargers, and dry ice.
The Stroh’s parlor near my school was where I was introduced to the Vernors Cooler, a fluffy, blended mixture of Stroh’s vanilla and Vernors’ ginger ale (one of the strongest such beverages this side of actual ginger beer - a real nose tickler).