Beer......got a favorite ?

IKE

IKE

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When I occasionally want an adult beverage I prefer scotch (Dalmore 12) or a gin & tonic.....I never have been much of a beer drinker but late yesterday afternoon, after mowing the yard, for some reason I started craving a ice cold beer and there wasn't any in the frig.

After getting cleaned up a little I drove three blocks over to the local grocery store and went in their big walk-in beer cooler and was sort of amazed at all the different beer brand names available now days but then I saw a brand that I hadn't had for probably over thirty five years....."Pabst Blue Ribbon" in 16 ounce cans (none in bottles) for just $4.34 a six pack.

I drank a couple sitting on the patio after supper last night and really enjoyed them.

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I grew up in Denver, and it was a "rite of passage" to go over to the brewery in Golden,CO. on our 18th birthdays, and have a free, legal Coors beer. Then, I spent 4+ years in Germany, and really got to enjoying those great German brews. When I came back to the states, and tried the US beers, it just wasn't the same. I kind of liked Budweiser, until I went over to the brewery in St. Louis, to help install new computers, and they showed me where they get their water....out of the Mississippi River, which is little more than a flowing collection of every imaginable waste.

The Ameristar Casino, in Kansas City, has a microbrewery, and I usually have one of their beers when we go there...other than that, I've given up on beer.
 
IKE said:
When I occasionally want an adult beverage I prefer scotch (Dalmore 12) or a gin & tonic.....I never have been much of a beer drinker but late yesterday afternoon, after mowing the yard, for some reason I started craving a ice cold beer and there wasn't any in the frig.

After getting cleaned up a little I drove three blocks over to the local grocery store and went in their big walk-in beer cooler and was sort of amazed at all the different beer brand names available now days but then I saw a brand that I hadn't had for probably over thirty five years....."Pabst Blue Ribbon" in 16 ounce cans (none in bottles) for just $4.34 a six pack.

I drank a couple sitting on the patio after supper last night and really enjoyed them.

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The folks at Pabst won that blue ribbon, you see on the can, at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and they have been mightly proud of it ever since.

 
We always used to buy "Brew 102" for our beach parties. It was cheap, and it got you drunk!

I paid $1.25 for a six-pack of half-quart cans. (Picture)

Sometimes I scored at liquor stores even before I was 21, and the car full of high school seniors thought I was a hero!

Hal
 

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HiDesertHal said:
We always used to buy "Brew 102" for our beach parties. It was cheap, and it got you drunk!

I paid $1.25 for a six-pack of half-quart cans. (Picture)

Sometimes I scored at liquor stores even before I was 21, and the car full of high school seniors thought I was a hero!

Hal
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For a cheap drunk back in the day we always went with Mickey's Malt Liquor in the wide mouth green bottles.
 
I used to prefer Blue Ribbon also. It was very popular where I grew up. Hard to find in the south. Now I guess it would be Miller or Shlitz. Not too intense. One can, ice cold, on a hot day.
 
I like just about any brand of beer. But right now I am having a Polish Beer. LEZAJSK. The brewery goes back as far as 1525.

It won a Gold Medal at the World Beer Championships.

One thing I notice about U.S. beers. They don't put the alcohol content on the label.

This beer is 5.5% alc. vol. Just about right.

We can now buy beer at Safeway. That just started this year. Previously in Ontario we could not buy beer in grocery stores.
 
Haven't had a beer in years but used to like Coors lite or Michelob lite but haven't seen the Michelob lite in years on the shelf. Now if I drink anything it will be a little Baileys or Crown.
 
Pappy said:
Back in the 60s, we lived one block over from the brewery. Took friends on the tours as often as I could. They made several brands of beers and I heard that Billy beer was made there.
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The tour is a great way to spend an afternoon! The hours have changed and I think that they call it the Saranac Brewery tour but it is still in the West End Brewing Co., home of Utica Club beer.

 
IKE said:
When I occasionally want an adult beverage I prefer scotch (Dalmore 12) or a gin & tonic.....I never have been much of a beer drinker but late yesterday afternoon, after mowing the yard, for some reason I started craving a ice cold beer and there wasn't any in the frig.

After getting cleaned up a little I drove three blocks over to the local grocery store and went in their big walk-in beer cooler and was sort of amazed at all the different beer brand names available now days but then I saw a brand that I hadn't had for probably over thirty five years....."Pabst Blue Ribbon" in 16 ounce cans (none in bottles) for just $4.34 a six pack.

I drank a couple sitting on the patio after supper last night and really enjoyed them.

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NancyNGA said:
I used to prefer Blue Ribbon also. It was very popular where I grew up. Hard to find in the south. Now I guess it would be Miller or 'Schlitz'. Not too intense. One can, ice cold, on a hot day.
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I'd completely forgotten all about Schlitz......I think the last time I had one was in Vietnam.schlitz.jpg
 
It's been many years, since I've had a beer, but back then it was an Iron city, with my Dad.
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The U.S. bought thousands of pallets of Falstaff, Carling Black Label and Blatz beer and sent it to Vietnam for the troops, it tasted terrible......I'm not even sure if they still make them or not.falstaff.jpgblatz.jpgCarling.jpg
 
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