Beer Ping!
drink yuengling
No, it was immortalized in David Lynch's 1986 noir classic, Blue Velvet [with Kyle MachLachlan as Jeffrey Beaumont and Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth]:
Frank Booth: What kind of beer do you like to drink, neighbor?Jeffrey Beaumont: Heineken.
Frank Booth: Heineken? F*ck that sh*t! Pabst Blue Ribbon!
Too bad that Pabst sucks. Luckily, there are still plenty of quality American beers, such as Summit which is based right here in St. Paul. I also like Sam Adams and Yuengling, both of which are based in the U.S. still. However, a lot of American beers I drink, including my personal favorite, Leinenkugel, are now owned by foreign companies. That really doesn’t bother me, to be honest, but it’s relevant to the topic at hand.
What’ll you have? Pabst Blue Ribbon.
What’ll you have? Pabst Blue Ribbon.
What’ll you have? Pabst Blue Ribbon...
Pabst Blue Ribbon Beeeeeeeeeeer!!!
I remember that jingle well!!!
A brewer that brews nothing is the biggest. Ain’t that a metaphor for the state of the nation.
Besides, I thought Sam Adams was the biggest.
Having grown up there, I remember being a little sad when the last brewery (I think it was Miller) sold to an out of town company. So now not only are they not Milwaukee-owned, but most of them are not US-owned... sad.
There were a few stories in the papers the other day that talked about Samuel Adams now being the largest American owned brewery. I guess its all a matter of the wording. Pabst might be the largest American owned beer company, but Samuel Adams is the largest American owned brewer (meaning they actually brew their own beer).
First time I ever had a Pabst, my reaction was simple: “put it back in the horse.”
Shiner Bock, 99, Kolsch, etc. from TEXAS.
First beer I ever drank was Olympia in a very small can when my father took me on a motorcycle ride through the hills in SW Wisconsin - probably 9 years old. I would buy Olympia.
Decades ago I worked at the Pasbt Brewery in Perry, GA. They had a ‘brand’ then called “Red, White & Blue” ... it was pretty good. Better, I think, that their flagship bottle.
Long live quality and taste, i.e., the American Craft Brewer.
I remember when they built the brewery in Tampa. All Busch Gardens was, was a restaurant with a tied up tiger out front.
See my tag line....I love it at this time of year mixed with a little V-8 or Snappy Tom. Especially when I’m at Male Domestic Action Station #1. Also known as the grill....with some Johnny Bush or Johnny Russell on the CD player..
There's a difference between being the largest American brewer of beer and the largest American brewer of urine.