Rainier beer

[Angola!]

I was on YouTube trying to find a commercial they used to show in Seattle that featured a Northwest summer trip to the beach and featured a guy and his buddies in parkas playing with a beach ball. Anyway, I couldn't find it, but I did stumble on some hilarious Rainier beer commercials from back in the day.

I'm guessing quite a few board members remember these and probably drank Rainier, which I'm told wasn't very good.











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The running of the Rainiers

 

[StevieNicks]

I heard drinking Rainier will do this to anyone who consumes.

 

[ink-stained wretch]

Not a bad beer. Just not in the same category as the other outstanding NW beer: Lucky Lager.

Best **** in a can I can recall.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I was on YouTube trying to find a commercial they used to show in Seattle that featured a Northwest summer trip to the beach and featured a guy and his buddies in parkas playing with a beach ball.

There used to be a Henry's commercial with the same theme. Two guys sitting on a big driftwood log at the coast and they go, "here come the hotties" or something like that when two or three women approach wearing the two or three layers of coats, etc., needed to stay warm at the coast virtually year-round.

We used to drink Rainier before Kingdome games at this little triangle-shaped bar just west of the dome that was practicaly underneath the Alaska Way viaduct. Cost $1 for a 16-pounce bottle. Itw as also sold at the Kingdome, but I don't think you can get Rainier at Safeco, or even anywhere for that matter unless someone brews it as a contract beer.

Good weather forecast for the weekend, tho, for the SHJ.commers headed to the Emerald City. Mt. Rainier and the Olympics should be out.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

When my parents first moved to the NW and I would come to visit them, the Rainier slogan was "Around here, it's Rainier."

I was like, "Am I the only person who can see that that says around here it's rainier, as in rainy-er?"

 

[Angola!]

I was on YouTube trying to find a commercial they used to show in Seattle that featured a Northwest summer trip to the beach and featured a guy and his buddies in parkas playing with a beach ball.

There used to be a Henry's commercial with the same theme. Two guys sitting on a big driftwood log at the coast and they go, "here come the hotties" or something like that when two or three women approach wearing the two or three layers of coats, etc., needed to stay warm at the coast virtually year-round.

Yeah, that's definitely the one I was thinking of. I love that commercial. I finally found it on Henry's web site, though I couldn't figure out how to link it.

 

[Cosmo]

Vitamin R, as an old athletic trainer at the school I used to cover called it.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

McCain will veto Rainier beer, too.

 

[MacDaddy]

I was on YouTube trying to find a commercial they used to show in Seattle that featured a Northwest summer trip to the beach and featured a guy and his buddies in parkas playing with a beach ball.

There used to be a Henry's commercial with the same theme. Two guys sitting on a big driftwood log at the coast and they go, "here come the hotties" or something like that when two or three women approach wearing the two or three layers of coats, etc., needed to stay warm at the coast virtually year-round.

We used to drink Rainier before Kingdome games at this little triangle-shaped bar just west of the dome that was practicaly underneath the Alaska Way viaduct. Cost $1 for a 16-pounce bottle. Itw as also sold at the Kingdome, but I don't think you can get Rainier at Safeco, or even anywhere for that matter unless someone brews it as a contract beer.

Good weather forecast for the weekend, tho, for the SHJ.commers headed to the Emerald City. Mt. Rainier and the Olympics should be out.

That triangle-shaped bar is still there, or at least it will be until the viaduct collapses on it. Rainier is still available at lots of places, too; one of my favorite Seattle watering holes has it in bottles.

 

[frozen tundra]

My God I enjoyed Rainier beer in college. During a stop in Seattle once I visited the Rainier brewery. It smelled just like my dorm.

I think I was hooked on the swill seeing those commercials as a youngster. I loved the one where you just hear a motorcycle coming around a bend: as you see it coming toward you in the distance you hear a voice off camera saying "Raaaaaaneeeeeeeeeerrrrrbbeeeeeeeeerrrrrr" as if it were the motorcycle shifting gears. How could it not make you want to get drunk?

 

[StevieNicks]

Rainier was my, and my boys' beer of choice in high school.

I was feeling all nostalgic a few years back, drank one and almost puked.

It's horsepiss.

 

[User 1019]

... sucks.

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

 

[SoCalDude]

When we were young and stupid, we thought it was cool to try to choke down Rainier Ale, which was renamed Dragon ****.
When I got a taste of the regular Rainier on trips up north, kinda liked it. Either Rainier or Henry's whenever I was up there. They tried to market it down here about 25 years ago, only place you could find it was Liquor Barn. Didn't sell too well.

 

[Buck]

When I was in college, we drove to Yellowstone.
While there, we went to one of the ranger's houses for an evening - cookout and keg of Ranier.
Into the wee hours of the morning, there were two rangers, a handful of college students and one geology professor left.
The professor proclaimed 'Let's just pass this tap around until the keg's dead!'
And we stood in a circle, drinking out of the hose for an hour until, with the keg not quite dead, the professor vomitted and my friend's leg.
That's when the ranger/host proclaimed it was time for us to leave.

That's all I got about Rainier beer. I don't recall it being especially good or especially bad.

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

I drank Raineer and got an erection that lasted over 4 hours.

I did not consult my doctor about it though.

 

[WazzuGrad00]

Rainier is all right if you can't find Olympia.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Rainier is all right if you can't find Olympia.

There is no such thing as a bad beer to a true Coug. Some are just better than others. ;D

 

[frozen tundra]

Olympia? I'd take Rainier most any day. And of course with Lucky Lagers you could always do the little riddle that was under the cap. They were simply until beer 25 or so.

 

[StevieNicks]

Rainier is all right if you can't find Olympia.

There is no such thing as a bad beer to a true Coug. Some are just better than others. ;D

I thought ****ing Cougs drank Hamms.