New Book Answers the Question of Where the Beers Are That Grandpa Used to Drink

PRWeb ^ | 09-08-06 | PRWeb

[toddlintown]

The Stroh family called it quits around 1999 after Miller started another price war. They were also dealing at the time with a strike. The family decided to call it quits. Pabst now owns the label but it's brewed by Miller.

Stroh went national (or almost) after they took over Schlitz in the early 1980s and used their distributorship network to move from a regional to a national. Stroh, however, never got a good handle on making the big jump.

The hop nose and slight bitterness of their flagship brand Stroh, of which I did like, turned dramatically for the worse (my opinion) after Pabst took over.

It's all detailed in the book.

[oyez]

Nice way to practice medicine, too. Most of the hospitals down here in the South are church rooted establishments so I doubt a drop of beer comes past the food service supply dock.

[toddlintown]

Put the wife out.

[labette]

And not only does it look like brake fluid......

[Ax]

Too bad. It was some good beer. "Fire Brewed at 2000 Degrees."

[They'reGone2000]

Vintage Oly commercials:

Moving

It's the Water

[Zman516]

As a small boy in Southern Cal in about 1950, I remember "Burgermeister" ads on the radio, sung to the tune of "Clementine".

[sushiman]

I was hospitalized for two months for a hernia over here in Japan some years back . The hospital had a convenience store right next door to it . Once I was able to walk around , some of my patient friends and I would walk on over to the store and buy beer and sake and bring it back to our rooms . We even had a couple of parties in the lounge area at night when only a few young nurses were around . In fact they used to join us ! Of course the hospital had a NO ALCOHOL rule , but it was very loosely enforced . Now if a Doc had found beer in my room , I would have been chided . ;)

[billhilly]

A bartender is polishing shot glasses in an empty bar. The door opens and the bartender turns around to see a guy take a seat at the bar."What can I get for you, said the bartender." A Jax beer said the customer in a hairlipped voice. The bartender said, also in a hairlipped voice, sure, one Jax beer coming up.
The second person comes in the bar and says in a normal voice, I'd like a Jax beer. The bartender says , sure , one Jax coming up, in a normal voice.

The first customer, obviously in a slow burn, asks the bartender, "Were you mocking me?" The bartender said, "No, I was mocking him."

You had to be there.

[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.

Yep, loved those German biers:). The exports we get here are the dregs of the real German beers, so we can't really get good stuff here. I do like Sam Adams though.

[Khurkris]

Man oh man...growing up in the Cincy area in the 50's/60's it was beer heaven. Locals beer fresh and well made. Hudepohl, Schoenling, Burger, Red Cap Cream Ale, Little Kings, Weideman...WOW!

And each year one of them was the "Official" beer of Reds Baseball...great beer, great baseball and great advertising.

"Crosley Field and Reds Baseball brought to you by Hudepohl/Schoenling/Weideman/Burger beer!"

That made many a hot summer day/night all the more enjoyable. And Hudepohl draft beer is still a delightful memoty.

[speekinout]

I can't get through the whole thread, but I sure hope someone mentions "Rolling Rock in the ponies". :-)

[Viking2002]

I remember in 1981, a six pack of Iron City was $2.05 down at Parkview Liquors. And we also got two cents per bottle on the returns. If we scraped together three bucks, we had a six pack and a pack of Marlboros for Monday Night Football. Aaah, yes, the good old daze.

[lesser_satan]

Bump. Sounds like a good read.

[nkycincinnatikid]

The Beers in Cincinnati area alone, in Gramps time put the swill available today to shame. Wiedemanns Royal Amber comes to mind

[Publius]

Schaefer is the one beer to have
When you're having more than one.
Schaefer pleasure doesn't fade
Even when your thirst is done.
The most rewarding flavor
In this man's world
For people who are having fun.
Schaefer is the one beer to have
When you're having more than one.

[decal]

"Didn't Lucky Lager have the riddles on the bottle cap?"

Pearl did that, too - rebuses on the underside of the cap.

Don't know whether they still do it - haven't seen a Pearl bottle in years.

[decal]

"Jax beer, on the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf coast, had the funniest commercials ever."

Remember the commercials with "Andrew Fabacher," the Jackson lookalike?

[Armedanddangerous]

You know, I'm pretty sure Strohs is still around. Ive seen it in the past couple of years.


We used to drink Milwaukees Best, which was good if you were already a little buzzed and wasn't really paying attention to the taste.

Other than MGD, the worst beer Ive ever had must be Stoneys...Don't know if that one is still around, but it was terrible...it reminded me what beer would taste like if it was made from potatoes.

[neb52]

Sad to say that Miller Fort Worth brewes a lot of the old beers around here. I think they even do Lonestar.