Iconic Olympia Beer stops production after more than 120 years

q13fox ^ | 1/27/2021

[mylife]

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Say it ain't so, beer lovers: Olympia Beer, a mainstay of bar taps and college parties for decades, is pausing production.

Pabst Brewing Co. made the announcement in an Instagram post Monday. The owner of the iconic local brand said the decicion came afer a decline in the beer's sales.

"Sadly, we have not been able to find a solution to the challenges posed by reduced beer sales and have had to make the difficult deciscion of temporarily pausing production of Olympia Beer," the company said on the beer's Instagram page.

[dfwgator]

Anyone stationed in Hawaii in the 1970s would remember “Primo”.

[Rio]

So many out-of-work Artesians!

https://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/2010/10/artesiansi-seen-em.html

[mylife]

That’s dangerous! you’ll swaller the pull tab!

[mylife]

Primo, laws yes.
I spent years in Hawaii.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Buckhorn was Olympia’s budget brand, wasn’t it? Best thing you could say for it was that it was no worse warm than it was cold. Bohemia was another lousy-but-cheap beer, $0.39/qt or $0.89/sixpack when I was in high school.

Rainier Ale was my buzz of choice in the mid-80s. 6% alcohol and cheaper than Bud.

As for Heidelberg, I drank plenty of that back in the day. I still remember the bulgy-sided bottles. Last $5.00 24-pack I got was Heidelberg, in 1982 or so.

Now, alas, I have mostly stopped drinking beer. Maybe a few per year.

[mylife]

:)

[xp38]

The beer among others I grew up with as a yute.

[CommerceComet]

Let's cut to the chase here: When it comes to bad beer, Billy Beer is in its own stratosphere with no other beer in sight. From Billy Beer, you can't even see Schmidt or Buckhorn. Truth be told, after about 4-5 beers, you can switch to the last two and not notice. Not Billy Beer, though. It tasted kind of like Schmidt or Buckhorn after they went rancid, only worse.

Olympia was my dad's and his friend's beer of choice. Wasn't my beer of choice but if someone else was buying...

[Poser]

“The goal of beer is to get a buzz. That’s it. Anyone claiming to say it’s for the taste is a bullsh*tter..”

Spoken buy a guy who obviously never drank a Belgian Lambic Ale, or an Old Nick, or a brown ale from Newcastle Upon Tyne or maybe even a Guinness. I’ve got a quarter that everyone reading this could tell the difference between and Old Nick and a Guinness and a Bud with a blindfold on.

If you restrict your beer drinking to American light lager beers, you will find that they are quite similar although not exactly the same. Try this test. Take two bottles or cans of beer and four glasses. Pour one into three glasses and the other into only one glass. Taste them all blindfolded and see if you can pick the different one. And no Canadian beers in the mix. They all taste skunky which is a dead giveaway.

[Poser]

Oly and Coors were mainstays of the early 70s. Neither tastes even slightly like it did back then. Mass production and pasteurization ruins beer.

[mylife]

I liked Schmidt’s.

[mylife]

I agree.

[mylife]

No Labatt’s?

[CommerceComet]

I liked Schmidt’s.

I used to drink it when someone else bought it. When it was free, it passed my standard but I don't think that I ever bought any.

I wasn't very discriminating back in the day when it came to beer. Now, I take a walk-on-the-wild side every Sunday evening and have a can of NA beer. My SIL got me a case of different high-brow NA beer for Christmas. Told her I'll report back in 24 weeks when I finish it.

[markman46]

my old man worked for the old Pac Tel & Tel, uncle who bought the brew 102 was LAPD. this was in the 60’s

[xp38]

I said among others but for the most part it was ex. This was actually what most of my friends drank. I wasn’t a big beer fan. I really didn’t start drinking much alcohol until well into my 30s. I was the designated driver.

[castlebrew]

Bullhorn & Wheaties

The Breakfast of Champions at my dorm.

[castlebrew]

Cut way back on Oly j started homebrewing in 1993, when the illustrious state gov’t raised taxes on factory beers.

A good lawnmower beer, especially on ice.

[StAnDeliver]

Good American lager brew, clean, no trace of rice (darn you AB), no aftertaste, no hangover, and a keg was the perfect price-point in 80s.

[StAnDeliver]

Darmstadter is good like a 3.75 of 5, had it at the haus, even the draft always felt like the palate was a little busy, a little 'late'; and the overall sense of being rushed to market to fulfill the masses lined up outside; which even the market-basket Darmstadter swing tops (a la Grolsch) did not dissuade. Have not had Eders.