Same here. Add Shaefer to that list.

https://youtu.be/x_CYpPOjzj4

quote:

Originally posted by 6guns:
I didn't know you could still get Schlitz. A beer I used to drink a lot of in my youth.

IPA'S are all I will drink now. Don't care for the sweet stuff though.

quote:

Originally posted by hjs157:
Perhaps younger beer drinkers are simply growing tired of cat piss smelling IPA's and trendy fruit flavored brews. I would suggest this phenomenon is similar to the current popularity of old school revolvers in a market dominated by striker fired, semi-auto polymers.

For us native New Englanders, Mass in particular, can't forget Haffenreffer malt liquor.

Haffenreff Green Death!



And can't forget Narragansett.

^^^ Have a 'Gansett!

Anybody remember Pfeiffer’s? Had breweries in both Detroit and Flint. Was bought out and closed in ‘72.

“Johnny Fifer” was their mascot.

Detroit piss water. My newest addition to my bar






My dad would drink Olympia, nasty stuff. I remember drinking a lot of Busch as a teenager, must have been cheaper than the others

My dad drank Schlitz and Old Milwaukee. I never understood how he made it to the bottom of a can.

Schlitz, Hamm's, Olympia. I drank all of these "back in 'the day'" (as well as others like Keystone, Old Milwaukee and Pabst Blue Ribbon) because they were cheap, but haven't seen them for years.

Yeah...Rainier. Brings back memories. Not all of them great. But it was cheap and plentiful being the local brand of choice. A kid could find it everywhere, often with a sympathetic clerk at the cash register.

Conversely it was funny seeing the brand make a brief comeback and actually win awards during the early years of the local microbrew industry's growth and expansion.

"Rolling Rock"...when that brand hit the west coast it was actually marketed here in the PNW as a premium microbrew, sold alongside with all the usual craft beers of the day. Never tried it, though; a friend during the 80s originally from Indiana told me about its cheap and sketchy history, so skip that one I did.

quote:

Originally posted by WaterburyBob:
So many old beers - Knickerbocker, Rheingold, Ballantine, Falstaff, Schmidts, to name a few.
None of them were very good as I recall.

Don’t forget Pfeiffer

Old Dutch, Weidemans and Goebels were our go to cheap beer. .

quote:

Originally posted by 83v45magna:
I remember a cheap beer that seemed to hit the market when I was at college in 1983: Meisterbrau. Truly awful.

I remember buying 12 packs of Meisterbrau in the early 80s in college, 3 bucks. Way cheaper than Bud, Hamms, Oly, etc.
Also this delightful brew was a cheapie:



Also this bottle of wonders, Brown Derby:

as bald1 mentioned, High Life in bottles, usually the 7oz pony bottles, are in my fridge currently and always will be. among others...

Well I kind of like Stag, I don't love it but if in IL I will happily order it. I used to get it with cod cut ups in a dive bar in Belleville.

Now if I could only find Lowenbrau

quote:

Lowenbrau

Yeah, that takes me back. The dark version too.

I am the OP. In college, I mostly drank PBR. The weekend I turned 21, Busch was 79 cent a six pack and we bought a lot.

In Vietnam, it was mostly PBR and Bud. It was ten cents a can. While stationed in Texas, it was Lone Star and Pearl as they were cheap and both had nice breweries in town. Lone Star would let drink as much as I wanted and my wife would drink orange pop. They had lots of guns and western stuff on display also.

Over the past 50 years it has been Bud, Bud Light, PBR, Coors Light and now Coors.