Posted on 09/08/2006 3:33:40 PM PDT by toddlintown
Schmidt 'Big Mouth' beer - not Schlitz. I still have a few of those bottles around. Schmidt was brewed here in St. Paul. I drank most of them all at one time or another. What really killed the well known regionals was the loss of their honest, original identities with the post-war rise of food and beverage chemistry and the simultaneous business climate that sought market strategy over perfected substance in the manufacture of any product. Micro brews, luxury sedan brands, artisan breads, etc., etc., etc. will go through the same de-evolution if they are attractive enough for the mass producing conglomerates to buy.
In the end, all beer is reduced to piss. Brew your own and save money on the input end.
I remember Miller 7oz.
I use to hide them in the snow in the backyard so my parents wouldn't find them.
The first beer I ever tasted was Schaefer.
Schaefer...the one beer to have when you're having more than one.
You mean Mickey Big Mouth? I drank those. Grampa drank Lucky Lager, Olyimpia or Coors. Argh.
""Hey, Mabel..."
Hey, Mable, get off the table. This quarter's for Black Label.
At least, that was the joke back in those days, and it followed me throughout my service days.
Mickey's still bottles those jobs. Haven't even sniffed on in over 25 years.
"Falstaff"
AKA Foulstuff, or Fallflat to some...
We called them 'Grenades'.
Jax beer, on the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf coast, had the funniest commercials ever. In fact, due to Political Correctness, they could not be shown now.
La cerveza, Schaefer, es el mejor cuando se toma mas de uno.
The power of advertising. I haven't drunk or heard of Schaefer since 1974 but that old jingle in Spanish came right back.
Oh yeah! Falstaff and Hamm's. LOL. I nominate Falstaff and Lucky Lager as the worst. I never had the pleasure of pounding a 6 pack, but you can just tell they sucked.
The cheap beers rotted out all the beer guts and just drained away.
I never met a case of beer I didn't like, until I sobered up.
FYI PING
"National Boh, national boh, who likes the taste of national boh, "and while I'm at it I'd like to say, It's brewed on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay."
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