Pabst Blue Ribbon Mounting Unlikely Comeback

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

[cmsgop]

Here is my favorite at a 5+ Alcohol Content, 6 will do ya good!

[rickmichaels]

It's really popular with not only the college students...

The revival spread to cities like San Francisco and Seattle...

By some accounts, its young buyers are rebelling against established, mass-marketed brands.

Just say NO to commie beer.

[cmsgop]

LOL!

[Big Horn]

How about Storz no bite, no bloat, no bitter aftertaste.
Maybe Grainbelt.

[CheezyD]

Glad to hear PBR is making a come back. Grew up in Wisconsin and it was always PBR or Old Style for me.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Darn it, I was JUST looking for a picture of him to post here! GMTA

[Arkinsaw]

Old Frothingslosh...The Pale Stale Ale with the Foam on the Bottom

[JmyBryan]

PBR and the Green Bay Packers. <--- Best parts of my childhood.

[Lurker]

Home brew. Good beer and it doesn't empty your wallet.

Fun for the whole family.

L

[Snickersnee]

When I was in college on the GI bill in the late 60's (full-time attendance got you $75/mo vs. the $900 nowadays!) PBR was the cheapest there was so I drank it. But when I finally got some change in my pockets I laid off it -- WAY too fruity-tasting.

BTW, I read somewhere once that PBR was the most-exported beer from the USA in terms of volume. Any idea if there's anything to that? Where would I look?

[ccmay]

Pabst somehow appealed to trendsetters: punk rockers, people into bluegrass, kayakers and mountain bikers

Okay, when did bluegrass lovers become trendsetters? I thought the "O Brother Where Art Thou?" thing had run its course, and bluegrass was once more the province of hypoteloric Appalachian snake handlers and burned-out old hippies.

My kids are very up-to-date on trends and trendsetters, and they laugh and pity me for my love of bluegrass.

-ccm

[jettester]

This reminds me of the joke where the blond goes into the bar and orders a PBR and promptly falls asleep and the guys .... no, don't get me started on this one!

[Agnes Heep]

The best cheap beer I ever had was Schmidt's (of Philadelphia) Draft. It came it 16 ounce brown bottles and had a great, fresh, refreshing taste. There was also Duquesne Bavarian; very light and also very refreshing.

[dighton]

"What'll you have? / Pabst Blue Ribbon," et cetera.

I really should hit Abuse.

;-)

[Fish_Keeper]

"You just have to get beyond the fact that it's what your dad drinks."

My dad and my friend's dads used to drink this stuff. Haven't had so much as a sip of Pabst in 15 years. I'd be willing to give it another try. There are too many cheap beers I will never drink again due to overexposure in my college days: Milwaukee's Best, Natural Light, "Old Mud", Keystone, Piels (anyone remember Piels?). Busch Light makes an honorable mention. MGD or Bud is what I get at a baseball game now days. If they sold PBR at the ballpark, I'd try one of those.

[Agnes Heep]

Anything but Falstaff...

I used to work in a liquor store (back in the college days) that served an up-and-coming NASCAR racetrack. One day, just before the race, the manager (a redneck woman) laid down the law: no more checks; she was fed up with bad checks and now the policy would be not to take them, no matter who offered them. "I don't care if it's Jesus Christ," she said, "but you never heard me say that, hon."

Next weekend there was a race, and who should come in on my watch but Richard Petty. He took a six pack of Falstaff out of the cooler, came up to the counter and started to write a check.

"I'm sorry," I said, "but I can't take a check."

He grinned and said, "If my check ain't good, the State of Delaware ain't good."

Needless to say, someone wasn't pleased the next day!

[chickenlips]

Dark beer was popular with my friends many years ago at Virginia Tech. We used to drink Pabst dark occassionally in college. Also Tuborg dark. It came only in a keg and it was rather smooth, but not a bitter as imported dark beers.

After college I found a taste of National Premium in the bottle for a while.

Now I hardly ever taste the stuff.

[RightWhale]

While I don't drink beer anymore, I recall that Pabst was heavy on hops, while Bud was like flavorless carbonated water. Schlitz or Strohs was preferred to Pabst by discriminating college students.

[correctthought]

Lets not forget the miester brau

[Grut]

Next thing you know Schlitz will make a comeback.

And a good thing, too. We need a beer that tastes different with every can. "Schlitz! The beer of diversity!"