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New Book Answers the Question of Where the Beers Are That Grandpa Used to Drink
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Posted on 09/08/2006 3:33:40 PM PDT by toddlintown
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To: WorkingClassFilth
I don't know why, but growing up I just never thought of beer being brewed in Minnesota. Beer was brewed in Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, if it wasn't brewed in Chicago. St. Louis had a brewery, but they used rice, so it wasn't really beer, just some stuff that Card fans drank, but you didn't care if they got a headache, they were Cardinal fans.
Still, thanks for the info. I didn't know Hamms was brewed in Minnesota.
To: Tribune7
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Is PEARL still around? Yep. But it's contract-brewed by Miller Ft. Worth.
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posted on
09/08/2006 5:04:09 PM PDT
by
dread78645
(Evolution. A doomed theory since 1859.)
To: doc1019
Many moons ago (late 60s early 70s) while stationed at Pearl Harbor, we would hit the strip (King Kamehameha Highway) and in any bar you would pay about $0.65 for a beer or $0.25 for a Primo.
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posted on
09/08/2006 5:04:24 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: doc1019
Primo = barf in a bottle! Hawaiis contribution to the beer drinking world, bottled formaldehyde.LOL! I wasn't very discriminating back then, but even I knew it was bad!
To: Jim Noble
I can't vouch for the quality of Utica Club, but
used to get a kick out of their commercials when I was a kid!
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posted on
09/08/2006 5:06:18 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Schultz & Dooley)
To: razorback-bert
When I was a child, in the 50s, my mother took me and my brother to see her cousin in Riverside CA. Her husband had his entire garage full of cases of beer and he always had one in his hand. My mother kept telling us that he was a bad example and not to be mislead by him, but it didn't work. My brother and I both turned out to be beer drinkers:).
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posted on
09/08/2006 5:06:25 PM PDT
by
calex59
(Hillary Clinton is dumber than a one eyed monkey with a brain tumor(credit to Harley69))
To: redheadtoo
It's always the water, or the hops.
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posted on
09/08/2006 5:07:43 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
(every beer tag line)
To: bigfootbob
That's curious. I was living in Goodlettsville TN, just north of Nashville and also a senior in '72. I have a vague memory of a party at some farm in Whitehouse or Portland where a couple guys showed up with a pickup full of Pabst and some story about a train.
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
If you ever get up this way, look for the old place on Payne Avenue in St. Paul. Here's a cool link for the Action Squad's visit to the old brewery (a bunch of X & Yers that explore weird places and abandoned buildings): http://www.actionsquad.org/hammsoverview.htm
To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
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posted on
09/08/2006 5:09:16 PM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: AppyPappy
I have a whole beer can collection. My wife won't let me put it out.
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posted on
09/08/2006 5:09:21 PM PDT
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CJ Wolf
(every beer tag line)
To: dc27
Didn't Lucky Lager have the riddles on the bottle cap? Don't know about the riddles because I always drank Lucky from the cans, it was during my teens and we took what we could get! You needed a church key then, no zip tops or tabs.
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posted on
09/08/2006 5:09:44 PM PDT
by
calex59
(Hillary Clinton is dumber than a one eyed monkey with a brain tumor(credit to Harley69))
To: IronJack
Falstaff was another beer of my youth. Not very good but it had alcohol in it:).
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posted on
09/08/2006 5:12:35 PM PDT
by
calex59
(Hillary Clinton is dumber than a one eyed monkey with a brain tumor(credit to Harley69))
To: phoenix0468
In KC we have Boulevard Brewing, the second largest brewery in the state of Mo. Their annual production probably equals one batch of Auggie's rice beer. Pretty Good Pale Ale.
My daughter waitresses in a place owned by an outfit that has a micro brew, 75th Street Brewery. Also decent.
But when I can I drive over to a local pizza place that has a draft micro brew, available only in barrels, called Katy Trail Ale. Most excellent brew. Body, good hops bite and balance, good grainy malt. (I drink it even tho its made in Columbia MO.) I sometimes forget to buy the pizza and just have some of the Ale.
The wonderful point is that in the age of micro brews I can have a quality beer locally available and never be reduced to buying aluminum cans or foreign beers that have spent 6 months in a hot warehouse.
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
The wonderful point is that in the age of micro brews I can have a quality beer locally available and never be reduced to buying aluminum cans or foreign beers that have spent 6 months in a hot warehouse.
True, true, true. There are gems, but our local microbrew (Summit Ale) tends to be too malty for me. Then there is the problem with making a decision standing in front of the cooler with the million and one microbrews that have gone national. Oh, yeah, don't forget the bizarre ones made with raspberries or chocolate or, or, or. Homebrew is just as good these days.
To: calex59
I was an American army brat going to high school in Munich, Germany when I learned to drink beer, real bier. When I came back to the US I spit the first drink of American beer out, I thought there was something wrong with it. It tasted awful.
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posted on
09/08/2006 5:29:22 PM PDT
by
garyhope
(It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
To: WorkingClassFilth
I also made my own for a time. Made an ale that was disgusting. I drank it anyway. Some time later I purchased, at an exorbitant price, a Chimay Ale. It tasted--to me--just as skunky as my home brew. And people pay for the stuff.
Among several failures, I did succeed with a really fine pilsner using a really magnificent saaz hops. Got tired of cleaning bottles tho, and pretty much leave it to the micro breweries now.
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
I know the Chimay ales you speak of. Bought one on a lark and thought it was more like barley wine. You're right, too, good money wasted on bad beer. You're right on the second point, too. Homebrew IS work, but I like a pull now and then sitting by kerosene lamp light surrounded by a lifetime collection of hand tools knowing that I'll rule the world when society finally fails.
To: toddlintown
Nasty stuff.
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posted on
09/08/2006 5:41:35 PM PDT
by
labette
(The land of the Free and the home of the Brave just a little while longer please.)
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