Posted on 04/10/2008 12:16:45 PM PDT by toddlintown
I can’t wait! This is the beer I was raised on, long before certain people at Schlitz got greedy, leading to Schlitz beer becoming known as “Schitz” beer.
The downfall of Schlitz, combined with a bottler’s strike at Anheuser-Busch in 1976 allowed Old Style, a sleeper brand that had been in Chicago since the early 1900s, to take over the Chicagoland beer market. OS distributors took their battle for supremacy to neighborhood taverns, bottle by bottle and case by case until the brand dominated more than 40% of the local beer market.
The problems of the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Company were brought upon themselves and a board of directors that refused to acknowledge their production mistakes, the sudden death of CEO Bob Uihlein, Jr., and no real leader to take over the business when Bob died, a leader who could handle the meddlesome Uihleins.
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Now there's a blast from the past. Best Road Beer, Ever. I'll bet some of you even know why.
Never liked the stuff myself, but if I had to hazard a guess: Before and After container for beer?
It’s sold in Illinois.
“with a chemical blend to”
A bit of a stretch. They adjust the mineral content of the water as just about every other brewer does.
No brewer puts “chemicals” in their beer.
Pissant beat you to it, but yes, on those legendary 25-hour marathon trips to Florida, no one wanted to stop the car unless it was almost out of gas. Or unless a Georgia Sate Trooper lit you up at 3am for the presumptive offense of Driving While Yankee.
That's why the good Lord gave you knees, man!
Man, what an amateur. I knew a guy that could smoke a sig, drink a beer, drive, shift and twist one up.
It was actually an amazing thing to behold. Of course at that age, a lot of things were amazing.
That is great news! It was my favorite beer back in the ‘50s. They really screwed it up.
We used to get three quarts of Iron City for a dollar. It was our gangs “guest “ beer.
Same difference.
They alter the water by putting additives into it to try to fake the taste of the original mountain spring water.
Maybe other brewers do the same thing, but it’s hardly the same as it ever was. Rolling Rock is deceased.
Back in the '90s, while visiting my former in-laws in Western PA, my father in law used to take me to the "old guy bar" he hung out at. I'll never forget the little dude (my FIL said he was at least 80) who strolled in and got two gallon milk jugs filled with Iron City on tap for five bucks.
I realized then that going home to Columbus on Sunday afternoon was an occasion for celebration.
Same story here...although it was on the beach overlooking Long Island Sound. Sometime around 1978
sorry.....I’m from Milwaukee and I ought to know
it’s Blatz,Blatz,Blatz beer wherever you go
Blatz is the name you will always hear
Blatz is Milwaukee’s finest beer
noone considered “less filling” in those days
‘55 Chevies had a 265 cubic inch engine.....283 didn’t come out until 1957
A buddy’s mom had an IBM Selectric - the same kind that the Iowa DOT used to type up their green paper licenses. A little rubbing, green dye and PRESTO, I’m 18. The guy at the door of Big Jim’s Hideaway in Huxley didn’t even blink. Naked rollerskaters and the first fire-eater I ever saw. The only naked one, too. The beer was Ok, but I couldn’t tell you if it was Pabst, Grain Belt or Stroh’s.
Back in the mid-70s, Leinies, Monroe and Point were $1.25 plus deposit for an 8-pack of bottles in Madistan. They didn’t sell out of state, so they didn’t have to pay any federal taxes, and Wisconsin promoted local beers, cheeses and sausages. Leinenkugel was the best every-day brew, but Steven’s Point Bock Beer was an annual favorite. Drove up there and brought back 10 cases one year.
When I head up to the VA in Madistan I drool when I pass the Leinie signs along the beltway. Then, when I get back home to Rochelle, IL, I have to have one.
The first beer I ever had was when I was about seven years old, and it was a Schlitz. Kinda wierd how it came about. I was raised by my grandfather in rural Mississippi. I was sick, measles I think, and had a high fever. Apparently, there was some old folk remedy that called for beer to be given to the sick person. Our county was a Dry County, so he had to get someone to go to the next county to buy a beer and bring it back, since he didn’t have a car and couldn’t drive even if he had one. I still remember the guy bringing it back in a brown paper sack, hiding it like it was some dangerous device, which it was in a dry county in Mississippi in the early 60’s..........
Hassenpfeffer, or rabbit stew, essentially, is good. Were you dancing on a dining room table?................
I’da been scouting a mile in both directions in hopes of finding another. lol
Hamm’s was readily available in nam. Always, for me, consisted of a fast pour in glass of ice, then chug-a-lug before it became too watered down.
Dehydration prevention of course. :-)
Yeah, but who goes on a fishing trip to Chicago?
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