OT: Cheap Beer thread
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a cheap version of PBR, should not exist
The perfect beer when you got stuck for a beer frame on bowling night. 7 oz nips.
Drove down to the Navy game, maybe early 2000' s, and stayed nearby. We stopped at a local liquor store and they had Boone's Farm on three walls of the store. Had to be every possible flavor plus some. I bought a pint of Night Train Express whiskey because I loved the label. It was the best feature.
Did she have to drink all 6 before she’d agree to be your GF?
She was a lush, but was fun most nights, last I heard is she settled down somewhere in Morristown
I wouldn't touch a Coors light but this thread has made me want to throw down a few Coors Extra Golds for some reason
I didn't. Was on my original list. Icehouse, red dog, and southpaw were all from the miller offshoot plank road breweries, iirc. We convinced many a person that southpaw had a specially designed bottle that made the beer taste better when held in your left hand.
No Stroh’s fans here???
That was my go to beer - could buy a 30 pack for $15 in Ohio.
Natural Ice was always popular too - and only .50 more than light...
That was my go to beer - could buy a 30 pack for $15 in Ohio.
Natural Ice was always popular too - and only .50 more than light...
That Ballantine commercial is classic.
My GF's dad was a chemist for them a couple decades back.
Latrobe Pa was the only place that produced Rolling Rock Beer until the brand name was sold.
Now Iron City Beer and IC Light Beer (Pittsburgh Brewing Co) are now brewed in the same Brewery (Latrobe Pa) that used to make Rolling Rock.
HAIL TO PITT!!!!
Here's some of my not so pleasant swills from HS and College years......
Blatz gives you the splats....
Old Kill Doggie.....
Tonight....let it be Lowenbrau
Genny Cream Ale!!
Mickey's Wide Mouth goes down easier.....
Vintage Natty Light....
I think that Arthur Prysock,one of my favorite singers,did a Loewenbraugh(sp) commercial backl in the Day.
Lions Head. It's awful., but usually one of the cheapest cases of beer in the PA distributorshipsDon’t know, but Haffenreffer had them on the green bottles too. Harder to solve when drunk!
https://www.lionbrewery.com/puzzle-caps/
I believe everyone does. I don't think Lowenbrau belongs here. It's one of the Munich Big 6, not a dirt-cheap piss beer.
What was sold here after 1974 was not from Munich but from Milwaukee and terrible. Not made with German ingredients and survived about 2 years. In the last 6 months the prices were slashed to get ride of inventory quickly. I believe it is the only one of the Big Six from Munich that is not sold retail anywhere in the US.
Interesting history there. That was before my time, but below is what I remember. It was cheaper than other German beers, but comparable, as I recall. Came in the green bottles with blue label.
"In 1999, the North American rights to Löwenbräu passed to the Labatt Brewing Company, which began to brew Löwenbräu in Canada for both the Canadian and US markets with the same recipe used in Germany. Labatt's production of Löwenbräu ended in 2002 and exports of Munich Löwenbräu to North America resumed, although on a much smaller scale than had been the case before the Miller deal."
In high school we felt special if we had a bottle of Lowenbrau in our hands. Good stuff.
Now I want to drink one. Michelob too.
Same recipe but but not all German ingredients. I only see Lowenbrau from Germany sold on tap in the US on very rare occasions but have not seen it anywhere in years. The last time was at least 3 years ago at the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden in Queens, which is a fabulous spot in Astoria.
Yeah, reading the wiki, looks like Miller gained rights to the name in US and used it to market some **** beer it brewed itself to compete with Michelob. It failed spectacularly.
When you said it was a different recipe. The German recipe.
I'm sure it wasn't as good as the German version (our imports in general aren't), but it wasn't the schlitz-level garbage water from the 70s.
Of course it wasn't but the goal all along was to compete with Michelob. Not a high standard. And not a different recipe just different ingredients.
Very hard to find, but you can get a 4 pack of Briars for about $3.99. Shop Rites in Spotswood and Hamilton usually have it.