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Time Warp Involving Beer
November 27, 2022, 11:25 AM
maxwayneTime Warp Involving Beer
I went to lunch with 2 30 somethings yesterday. One was drinking Stag and the other Schlitz. These are beers from 60 or more years ago.
November 27, 2022, 11:25 AM
SIGnifiedJust goes to show that there is no accounting for taste.
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tatortoddWere they hipsters? The reason I ask is hipsteers intentionally do things to be ironic like drink bad beer.
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6gunsI didn't know you could still get Schlitz. A beer I used to drink a lot of in my youth.
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November 27, 2022, 12:01 PM
DoubleAdobeMan, if I could find some Schlitz, I would drink me a bit. In years past, here in Az at least it was a thing. My Mom and Dad drank it, along with a long defunct brand here, known as A-1. A-1 was brewed in Arizona, I drank a goodly amount of it years back as well. I didn't think of Schlitz or A-1 as inferior beer. I wish I had saed some cans, though, lol.
November 27, 2022, 12:05 PM
akcopnfbksquote:
Originally posted by tatortodd:
Were they hipsters? The reason I ask is hipsteers intentionally do things to be ironic like drink bad beer.
Has to be a hipster thing because those are both terrible beers. Absolute garbage. They do the same thing with PBR and other iconic yet terrible (and terribly overrated) beers from the American macro-brew heyday.
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November 27, 2022, 12:29 PM
WaterburyBobSo many old beers - Knickerbocker, Rheingold, Ballantine, Falstaff, Schmidts, to name a few.
None of them were very good as I recall.
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November 27, 2022, 12:45 PM
ugeesta^^^^ Add Strohs to that list. Haven’t drank that swill since I turned 21.
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November 27, 2022, 12:50 PM
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November 27, 2022, 12:50 PM
goose5If memory serves for Stroh's someone got the idea to pasteurize it. That much heat for beer is very counter productive. Living in Ohio Blatz was my brothers beer of choice. Awful.
Around here Walters was the big thing. Brewery went out but was revived about 5 years ago. They make a decent brew now, but its more expensive than most imports. So, I don't get it very often.
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November 27, 2022, 12:52 PM
83v45magnaI remember a cheap beer that seemed to hit the market when I was at college in 1983: Meisterbrau. Truly awful. It tasted like what you imagined it would be like if you drank a crappy, cheap beer that someone had put a cigarette out in. Seriously. Had I not just opened it, I would have shined a light down in the can.
It was THAT bad.
Makes me wonder if the hipsters would like that too.
November 27, 2022, 12:54 PM
maxwaynequote:
Originally posted by DoubleAdobe:
Man, if I could find some Schlitz, I would drink me a bit. In years past, here in Az at least it was a thing. My Mom and Dad drank it, along with a long defunct brand here, known as A-1. A-1 was brewed in Arizona, I drank a goodly amount of it years back as well. I didn't think of Schlitz or A-1 as inferior beer. I wish I had saed some cans, though, lol.
November 27, 2022, 12:55 PM
joatmonvAdd Mickey's Big Mouth to that list. Absolute garbage and I'm not sure you can even find it anymore.
Remember being 15 and drinking that swill.
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November 27, 2022, 12:55 PM
maxwayneI can still get Hamms in Illinois. It is about $12 for a 30 pack. The farmer I hunt with in SD loves it and I just took him a 30 last month.
November 27, 2022, 12:58 PM
RogueJSKquote:
Originally posted by goose5:
If memory serves for Stroh's someone got the idea to pasteurize it. That much heat for beer is very counter productive.
Nearly all mass-produced commercial beer is pasteurized.
November 27, 2022, 01:00 PM
bald1Well hell, I'm no hipster but still enjoy Miller High Life in glass bottles. Inexpensive crisp basic thirst quenching suds.
As for long ago stuff I recall Utica Club Brewery's "Maxi-Beer" which had a 8.9% alcohol content. Stuff didn't remain on the market all that long. Taste was poor but college kids got blitzed on a 6 pack making it quite popular with them. The backlash over the marketing to the younger set as a cheap drunk was fierce.
Their spokesmen for all things Utica Club were Shultz and Dooley talking beer steins
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November 27, 2022, 01:03 PM
architectI don't consider Schlitz to be the worst beer I've ever had by a long shot. Back in the day I'd favor it over Budweiser, Pabst, Coors, or many other popular brands. On the yuck scale, Schaeffer is pretty high on the list along with Blatz, Mickey's, and so many others.
My dad used to buy the absolutely cheapest brands he could find, mostly grocery store house brands, Kroger, etc. Almost put me off of drinking beer completely, but I managed to power through in the end. When I discovered Stroh's in Ann Arbor in 1968 at 69 cents a six-pack ("major" brands were 20 - 40 cents higher), well my waistline has never been the same since.
November 27, 2022, 01:07 PM
RogueJSKquote:
Originally posted by architect:
My dad used to buy the absolutely cheapest brands he could find, mostly grocery store house brands, Kroger, etc.
Ah, yes. Grocery store generic beer. It may not be good, but it sure is cheap.
*shudder*
November 27, 2022, 01:20 PM
rburgquote:
Originally posted by ugeesta:
^^^^ Add Strohs to that list. Haven’t drank that swill since I turned 21.
There are good reasons to drink bad beer. First and foremost, if you're underage. After that, if its cheap enough.
Back in the day, I had a boat on the river. Really, up on land and we had it put in the water. Others did too, and many of us became good friends. It also was a gathering point for others, criminals, sort of. One guy was runnng with a group of thieves. He and his ilk managed to steal a fully loaded semi full of Stroh's. Not for the contents, they wanted the tractor. They delivered the truck to the buyer, but were sort of stuck with the trailer full of beer.
He made a deal with the harbor owner for a bunch of it. Really as much as they could deliver in a van they had. So we could buy it for $1 a 6 pack. It cut our beer expenses dramatically. You could get loaded for $5 a weekend. Yeah, it was bad, but if kept cold, you didn't notice as much.
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November 27, 2022, 01:21 PM
k5blazerI remember A-1. Not bad if you kept it around 32 degrees F. Any warmer and it smells like piss. I liked it better than Coors. Schlitz was awful. Mickeys were a thing for a short period. Drank a lot of Strohs in college.