Pabst Blue Ribbon Mounting Unlikely Comeback

Contra Costa Times ^ | 03/14/2004 | Jonathan Drew

[ServesURight]

BUMP

[battlegearboat]

Can the Hamn's Beer Bear be far behind?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

PBR is still around? LOL.

Next thing you know Schlitz will make a comeback.

[EggsAckley]

Yeah, and Black Label,........Hey Mable! Is THAT still around?

[July 4th]

I have seen Schlitz and Blatz in liquor stores in Wisconsin. Like the place in Texas, companies are buying the names and producing them whereever. (The Pabst cans still say "Milwaukee, Wisconsin" - the Texas firm bought a P.O. Box there.)

About Pabst, however, I've taken it to a few parties over the last year or so. Once the good beer is gone, the cheap beer tastes okay, and how can you go wrong with 18 cans for $7.49?

[TheSpottedOwl]

I remember my dad drank Busch Barvarian and Olympia. I'm fond of Natural Ice ;-D

[Sabertooth]

I've always had a soft spot for Pabst. It's a reliable, inexpensive American beer, and sometimes I'm in the mood for that. Hamms is another.

Do they still make Olympia anymore? That was another of my Dad's beers.

Any of them is every bit as good as Budweiser, which is vastly overrated and overpriced.

I've had some Michelobs lately and they were good, though I miss the lamp-shaped bottles from the 70s.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Can the Hamn's Beer Bear be far behind?

I remember the Hamms Bear! Oh that would be cute!

[egarvue]

Every day, my ironworker grandfather had a Pabst when he came home from work (just one, he never drank anything outside of that). It was the first beer I ever tasted, when Grandpa slipped me some behind my mom's back. I'm glad to see its still around. But my favorite will always be

[aomagrat]

There's no place I'd rather be than right here
With my red neck, white socks and Blue Ribbon Beer.

[ravinson]

Never could stand the stuff even when it was very popular with the locals. Budweiser and Coors were about the only cheap beers I could ever swallow, but even when I was young and money was tight my buddies and I drank Heineken whenever we could get it. These days, you can find all sorts of great microbrews on tap everywhere, so this PBR drinking sounds like an an insane left wing anarchist fad to me.

[freedumb2003]

and how can you go wrong with 18 cans for $7.49?

When I was in college, 20 years ago, you could get Lucky beer for $5 a case. And when you were done, you could try to work out the rhebus under the bottlcap.

I wonder if Lucky is still around....

[HAL9000]

It never went out of style for some folks.

[aomagrat]

Next thing you know Schlitz will make a comeback.

Anything but Falstaff

[NormsRevenge]

Red neck, white lace and Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer

Grain Belt ..

[BlkConserv]

Totally agree with you on Budweiser. They're #1 because of slick Madison Avenue marketing. Their beers are mediocre.

I think a lot of people as described in the article are just tired of the advertising and just want a good beer. Pabst will never be #1 but they've carved a niche of loyal drinkers, and that's what important.

[skinkinthegrass]

...A real good post..."and there's still some hope, that Hula hoops will return."..It's show what America really about, not the beer..."a commonality, if you will...many pols have forgotten." :0)

[The Radical Capitalist]

Even as a kid, I remember Pabst as marketing in nostalgia -- they had commericals with guys in straw hats and handle-bar moustaches winning blue ribbons at turn-of-the-century beer fests at the town square with oomp-pah bands where the beer is poured out of pails, all cold and frothy and...

Hey, I could go one right now...somebody, get me a Pabst! I guess all that nostalgia stuff works. Here, hold muh beer and watch this...(rolls up sleeves, drunkly picks up axe and enters the lumberjack contest...)