Favorite Beer?

[Leonardfan]

If I go the craft beer route - I prefer IPAs with Citra hops or sours.

 

[Booth]

How the hell do you drink it with that slit in the middle? Looks more like a piggy bank.

I'm old enough to remember when most cans of beverages were opened with hand-held can/bottle openers. Make a big triangular cut at one end and then a smaller one at the opposite end so that the liquid flowed smoothly. I just did a search of the pull-off tab and supposedly it was invented in 1959, but it didn't come into widespread use until well after that. And those early pull-offs could be nasty at times, resulting in deep finger cuts.

One of these did the trick. I still have a couple around, as some bottles still aren't twist offs.

Don, I believe this was a novelty item sold in the early 60s. I know they sell them on eBay. It was sold as a piggy bank.

 

[Don Wassall]

Don, I believe this was a novelty item sold in the early 60s. I know they sell them on eBay. It was sold as a piggy bank.

I know, was just having some fun with it. I actually have a Pabst Blue Ribbon piggy bank can. Can't remember how I got it now, likely from a deceased uncle or aunt. It's really small though, might hold 6 ounces of beer.

 

[FootballDad]

lol! I could go all day on this subject. Back in my Huntington Beach days I was constantly brewing beer. I could make some pretty amazing stuff, ales, lagers, bocks, you name it. In a pinch I could brew a simple brown ale and have two cases or so ready in about a week and a half start to finish.

Nowadays, I usually have High Life, Miller Lite and Budweiser in the beer fridge as they are cheap and with two grown boys around the house don't make me go broke. I also usually have a few craft beers on hand. We have some really good craft breweries in Missouri, Boulevard from KC, Mothers from Springfield, Schlafly from St Louis, and countless others. I'm also fond of some of the Shiner beers from Texas.

Back in my youth, I was big on the Canadian beers, Molson Golden and Moosehead. My all-time favorite from back in the day was Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve. Each batch was numbered on the bottle. Can't get it here in the Midwest, though. Still a fan of Anchor Steam. Their porter is one of the best I've ever had.

I went through a more broke time when all of those were just too expensive. I would buy Milwaukee's Best for about 5 bucks a case. At least it's marginally better than Natural Light. Some nasty swills were listed above, I agree with the characterizations of each, but if you really want something awful grab a can of Genesee Cream Ale. Yuck! And yes, they still brew those awful malt liquors like Colt 45 and my favorite, Olde English 800. You want a wicked hangover, grab a 40 and be on your way to freedom (Sublime reference here).

 

[The Hock]

This can almost choke me up thinking about my vanishing America.

 

[FootballDad]

This can almost choke me up thinking about my vanishing America.

This stuff isn't half bad either. For $14.48 a 30 pack of cans at my local Walmart the price is right, too. I don't drink this kind of volume anymore, so I haven't bought Hamms in a few years. My next-door neighbor goes through a 30 pack or so every week though.

 

[Bucky]

Nice Hamm's commercial thanks for sharing @The Hock !

Also @FootballDad with the Sublime reference! Pretty cool you used to brew your own!

 

[Leonardfan]

The whole craft brewing explosion over the past 10 years or so is pretty remarkable. I live in Connecticut and for such a small state there are quite a few very good micro breweries in CT as well as MA and VT. @Bucky if you ever make it to Long Island and meetup with @Freethinker we should get together for a CF beer fest lol.

 

[Bucky]

The whole craft brewing explosion over the past 10 years or so is pretty remarkable. I live in Connecticut and for such a small state there are quite a few very good micro breweries in CT as well as MA and VT. @Bucky if you ever make it to Long Island and meetup with @Freethinker we should get together for a CF beer fest lol.

Definitely that would be awesome to have a few brews with some like minded friends. A CF Beer Fest would be a great time!

 

[Westside]

I know, was just having some fun with it. I actually have a Pabst Blue Ribbon piggy bank can. Can't remember how I got it now, likely from a deceased uncle or aunt. It's really small though, might hold 6 ounces of beer.

Glad to know I am not the only CFer slow to catch on to your dry humor.

 

[Westside]

lol! I could go all day on this subject. Back in my Huntington Beach days I was constantly brewing beer. I could make some pretty amazing stuff, ales, lagers, bocks, you name it. In a pinch I could brew a simple brown ale and have two cases or so ready in about a week and a half start to finish.

Nowadays, I usually have High Life, Miller Lite and Budweiser in the beer fridge as they are cheap and with two grown boys around the house don't make me go broke. I also usually have a few craft beers on hand. We have some really good craft breweries in Missouri, Boulevard from KC, Mothers from Springfield, Schlafly from St Louis, and countless others. I'm also fond of some of the Shiner beers from Texas.

Back in my youth, I was big on the Canadian beers, Molson Golden and Moosehead. My all-time favorite from back in the day was Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve. Each batch was numbered on the bottle. Can't get it here in the Midwest, though. Still a fan of Anchor Steam. Their porter is one of the best I've ever had.

I went through a more broke time when all of those were just too expensive. I would buy Milwaukee's Best for about 5 bucks a case. At least it's marginally better than Natural Light. Some nasty swills were listed above, I agree with the characterizations of each, but if you really want something awful grab a can of Genesee Cream Ale. Yuck! And yes, they still brew those awful malt liquors like Colt 45 and my favorite, Olde English 800. You want a wicked hangover, grab a 40 and be on your way to freedom (Sublime reference here).

When I was growing up in South Central Los Angeles the brew of choice for blacks was Olde English 800, or in their words "mothaf*ckin oldies". The kingpins on the block would have 2nd and 3rd refrigerators stacked with them.

 

[Don Wassall]

Glad to know I am not the only CFer slow to catch on to your dry humor.

Well Westside, now that I've learned you grew up in South Central, where I imagine dry humor was scarce and the wrong interpretation of it daily led to this this this this and this I will try to use laughing emoticons more often when I employ it, especially in posts directed at you, sort of like this:

Did you hang out at all with Cheech and Chong in South Central? (humor )

 

[Westside]

Well Westside, now that I've learned you grew up in South Central, where I imagine dry humor was scarce and the wrong interpretation of it daily led to this this this this and this I will try to use laughing emoticons more often when I employ it, especially in posts directed at you, sort of like this:

Did you hang out at all with Cheech and Chong in South Central? (humor )

LOL. BTW never liked those two low intellect bozos Cheech and Chong.

 

[white is right]

The whole craft brewing explosion over the past 10 years or so is pretty remarkable. I live in Connecticut and for such a small state there are quite a few very good micro breweries in CT as well as MA and VT. @Bucky if you ever make it to Long Island and meetup with @Freethinker we should get together for a CF beer fest lol.

Micro Breweries have revived many derelict factory areas in cities. I know in Toronto the old Distillery district area was in disrepair and had many flop houses and decaying warehouses and abandoned factories. The explosion of real estate prices have actually driven out a few micro breweries from the area as their properties were sold off for condos.

In Buffalo because real estate is much cheaper these breweries are still in these areas though.

 

[Shadowlight]

Some nasty swills were listed above, I agree with the characterizations of each, but if you really want something awful grab a can of Genesee Cream Ale. Yuck!

What are you FootballDad some sort of sorcerer with the ability to conjure up the dead? Ha. I remember taking a few swigs of that junk when I was young and it boggles the mind to think someone could actually drink a whole can of that unholy filth with the texture of I won't say it just to spare everyone of being grossed out.

Brings to mind some of those holiday grab bag mixed ( I think they were ales?) 12 packs that a friend and a brother separately gave me with about 8 or so bottles left in each about a decade or so ago. I thought that was nice of them until I tasted them. One was from Scotland I believe and one was from Belgium. Can't remember the exact names of the crap but then again why would I? Several of them tasted like rotten butter scotch that had been sitting in a sunlit warehouse for about two centuries with an average temperature of over 100 degrees.

 

[FootballDad]

Did you hang out at all with Cheech and Chong in South Central? (humor )

No, Cheech and Chong hung out in East L.A. Completely different ethnic group dominates there as opposed to South Central. I'm sure that Westside was busy dodging bullets with Tupac and Suge Knight!

Keepin' them 40's in the freezer and bustin' out the Tanqueray and chronic.

 

[The Hock]

I began drinking beer in earnest when I was stationed in Germany. I think it was the wheat beer type that I preferred. At the time Germany had limits on the ingredients allowed. To me it is real beer. More heavy bodied. Once I developed a taste for German beer I couldn't stomach American beer. And the Rads (Germans) had no interest in it. That tells you something there. They loved our hard liquors though. And our cigarettes.

Once I got back to the states I figured I'd just drink Lowenbrow. Not the same though. American beer has different rules I think. But I improvised, adapted, and overcame by acclimating back to American beer, eventually settling on Coors as my starting brew. Once I got buzzed though just about anything could come off the bench, especially in a party situation.

But Budwieser, for all their cool commercials, didn't make the cut. Something wrong in the taste. Something chemical.

 

[FootballDad]

Reinheitsgebot, the German beer purity law, was a prime driver in the start of many craft breweries, Samuel Adams being a prime example. The law simply states that beer consist of water, barley, hops and yeast. Most high -end and craft brewers stick to this.

American brewers started adding various other grains, referred to as “adjuncts” in the brewing industry. Budweiser for instance uses rice in addition to the barley. The unique taste of Bud that some enjoy and others do not comes from the beechwood that is placed in the beer after the fermentation process. It’s fascinating, especially for someone who has brewed beer. Anyone visiting St Louis should take the brewery tour, plus you get free samples!

 

[Bucky]

Reinheitsgebot, the German beer purity law, was a prime driver in the start of many craft breweries, Samuel Adams being a prime example. The law simply states that beer consist of water, barley, hops and yeast. Most high -end and craft brewers stick to this.

American brewers started adding various other grains, referred to as “adjuncts” in the brewing industry. Budweiser for instance uses rice in addition to the barley. The unique taste of Bud that some enjoy and others do not comes from the beechwood that is placed in the beer after the fermentation process. It’s fascinating, especially for someone who has brewed beer. Anyone visiting St Louis should take the brewery tour, plus you get free samples!

Yes sometimes purity laws are necessary to protect something great!

 

[El Gringo]

If you guys haven’t tried an Advintinus you should. Just one bottle will give you a unique and very pleasant buzz!! https://www.totalwine.com/beer/ale/wheat-ale/weizenbock/schneider-aventinus-wheat-doppel/p/17695176

 

[white lightning]

Definitely that would be awesome to have a few brews with some like minded friends. A CF Beer Fest would be a great time!

If I'm in the area count me in. I love beer. Always have and always will. Something about the month of October makes me
just want to be at every Oktoberfest around!

 

[HaywoodZarathustra]

The old Schlitz commercials from the early seventies were pretty good. My cousin the alcoholic would buy Steel Reserve, I guess because he found it the most potent at the lowest price. Had a few with him once and they were horrible. He has since passed because of his alcohol habit. I knew some black guys who loved King Cobra beer, lol.

 

[Bucky]

What a stark contrast beer commercials were, before the fall of the Empire.

 

[Bucky]

If you guys haven’t tried an Advintinus you should. Just one bottle will give you a unique and very pleasant buzz!! https://www.totalwine.com/beer/ale/wheat-ale/weizenbock/schneider-aventinus-wheat-doppel/p/17695176

I’ll give it a try next time I’m out and about!

 

[jphoss]

The old Schlitz commercials from the early seventies were pretty good. My cousin the alcoholic would buy Steel Reserve, I guess because he found it the most potent at the lowest price. Had a few with him once and they were horrible. He has since passed because of his alcohol habit. I knew some black guys who loved King Cobra beer, lol.

I’m confused I saw a white man AND a white woman together happy in a commercial!