Cubs dump Old Style for Budweiser

Ben, I think Oly was THE worst beer I ever tasted. I drank some plain-label shit in college brewed by a grain and feed company from Minnesota. It's close but I think Oly still beats that brew out.

I've always enjoyed Old Style as long as it is extremely cold. Most of my trips to Chicago are in winter so it helps.

 

It was an acquired taste...and it had to be right at the freezing point or it was undrinkable. Hudy Delight was downright awful, too. That was the back-up if Olympia was out of stock.

I always wanted to know what Tumwater was when we drank it...see it there in the water under the horseshoe that is turned the wrong way...


We thought it was some special kind of water...turns out the brewery was in Tumwater, Washington.

 

Fart drank a crap beer called Meister Brau in college.
Once it was the most popular beer in Chicago.
Trademark was recently put up for auction.

 

We shoulda' gone halves on it

 

We had The Brau at Kent...it was too pricey for my blood. Man, you must have had some kind of scholarship or rich parents or something. I really hated the richies that drank Natty Light...pompus pricks.

 

When I was a kid there was both Meister Brau and Braumeister.

 

What about Meisterburger Burgermiester?

 

I was as middle-class a college kid as they came.
I ain't no senator's son. My folks worked for a living.
Are you serious that Brau was a rich kid's beer?

 

Agreed. I just had one yesterday while watching the NFL. I was pleased.

 

Meister Bräu was by far the cheapest choice at the booze shop down the street from my house in college. That's what I bought when I was being super frugal, otherwise it was usually High Life.

 

Bad, cheap beer? Two words: Old Milwaukee.

 

Oly, Rainier, Stroh's, National Boh, Utica Club, Genessee, Schmidt, Rolling Rock, etc., were very drinkable (and affordable) beers when they were strictly regional products. When they tried to go national (Stroh's); changed their formula when they had to cut costs as the national brands invaded their markets and eroded their market share, or sold out completely when the national brands bought their breweries, those beers generally went to hell or disappeared altogether.

(Those are the ones I'm familiar with. I'm sure there are other local brands like Schaefer, Falstaff, etc., that experienced a similar fate, but didn't grow up drinking those beers).

Henry's was an outstanding beer in the 1980s, and one of the most popular beers in the PNW. Miller then bought out Blitz-Weinhard, screwed with the formula, closed the PDX brewery and started brewing it in Los Angeles or some such place. The brand died. Somebody has since bought the brand and is making Henry's again, but it ain't Henry's.