lol .. yeah , when I tried Coors ... I wasnt impressed . They had one called Coors Golden Extra [ gues they were MB smokers ] and that one was decentCitizen B wrote: ↑Wed May 18, 2022 5:53 pmI think it was limited to states that didn't have the Missippi River running through them. This is ancient history so I may be misremembering. I remember when Coors was finally available in stores and bars on the East Coast. Most people I knew at the time found this event to be much ado about nothing.
Coors had its cachet as a forbidden brew back in the day, when I was growing up. Now it is nothing special because it is everywhere.
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Out on the West Coast the beers that I remember seeing a lot of as a kid were Coors and Olympia. We had Brew 102 made in Los Angeles until around 1974, and you'd see other brands from other parts of the country too, like Hamm's and Busch. I also remember when Michelob and Lowenbrau were marketed as upscale beers that were supposedly higher in quality. Then along came Henry Weinhard's, and that actually did seem like a step up. Dad drank all of these.
When I was in college most of the kids drank the cheapest beer they could get their hands on, and that's when I became aware of brands like Schaefer, Lucky Lager, Old Milwaukee, PBR, and others; Rolling Rock came along a bit later. We also started seeing some of the big Mexican brands around the early 80's, Carta Blanca, Superior, Tecate, and Pacifico. I still enjoy Pacifico.
When I was in college most of the kids drank the cheapest beer they could get their hands on, and that's when I became aware of brands like Schaefer, Lucky Lager, Old Milwaukee, PBR, and others; Rolling Rock came along a bit later. We also started seeing some of the big Mexican brands around the early 80's, Carta Blanca, Superior, Tecate, and Pacifico. I still enjoy Pacifico.
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Ours was a mostly coors house growing up. Later on when light beers came out it was coors light in a can, bud light if buying bottles (I dunno, dad says it tasted better) Any time we'd visit my dad's family in Kansas it was PBR because it was a union brewery back then and later it was Miller lite for the same reason.
In the late 60's when my dad was in the USMC he actually wrote coors to try to get them to ship him a pallet overseas. They replied that they'd love to but because of regional laws it wasn't a possibility. They did send a bunch of passes for them to go to the brewery and take a tour when they got back stateside (which they did) and that's the root of the reason we have always been coors fans
In the late 60's when my dad was in the USMC he actually wrote coors to try to get them to ship him a pallet overseas. They replied that they'd love to but because of regional laws it wasn't a possibility. They did send a bunch of passes for them to go to the brewery and take a tour when they got back stateside (which they did) and that's the root of the reason we have always been coors fans
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No Lone Star beer in your parts back in the day?Kevin Keith wrote: ↑Wed May 18, 2022 12:37 pm No regional beers in West Texas. The only two beers I remember anybody ever drinking were Coors Banquet and Budweiser. I know there were a few others thrown in there. I do remember the Mexican beer Carta Blanca being pretty popular.
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Nobody I knew liked it much, I guess. At least they weren’t drinking it. We were Texans, and we knew it… We didn’t have anything to prove buy drinking a beer with our own name on it!Puff nstuff wrote: ↑Thu May 19, 2022 2:26 pmNo Lone Star beer in your parts back in the day?Kevin Keith wrote: ↑Wed May 18, 2022 12:37 pm No regional beers in West Texas. The only two beers I remember anybody ever drinking were Coors Banquet and Budweiser. I know there were a few others thrown in there. I do remember the Mexican beer Carta Blanca being pretty popular.
And that does jog my memory. There was also Pearl Beer, brewed in San Antonio, again not many people that I associated with drank Pearl.
I suppose that Shiner is a regional beer, at least most of their varieties are not available in most of the country. I know Shiner Bock is fairly widely distributed.
When I was growing up and a young adult in West Texas I never heard of Shiner and never seen it. I suppose it was more distributed in the southern part of the state. It’s growth and popularity is kind of a modern day phenomenon I’d say but I could be wrong.
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When I was a kid, I collected beer cans. It was a thing to do back then. The prizes of my collection were cans of Old Frothingslosh, which, at that time, featured a BBW in a bathing suit in a black-and-white tinotype on the can.
Beer out of Pennsylvania is always good, even when it uses the novelty factor to sell its suds. Consider Yeungling, which is pretty much a national brand as far as I can determine.
Beer out of Pennsylvania is always good, even when it uses the novelty factor to sell its suds. Consider Yeungling, which is pretty much a national brand as far as I can determine.
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