The Cheap Beer thread

[Chef2]

At a sports bar for the first time in years and the domestics menu lists locations of beers. Was shocked to see PBR listed as being from Los Angeles.

I denounce this.
Local Applebee's here has PBR on tap.

 

[Scout]

ICOMs - ice cold Old Milwaukees in a bottle.

 

[Chef2]

ICOMs - ice cold Old Milwaukees in a bottle.

Father in law has been an OM Light drinker for as long as I can remember.
2 things have to happen for me to drink that.
1. ICE COLD doesn't quite describe what it needs to be. It better be just on the north side of frozen. We were golfing one time, and he had it in a cooler, but forgot to pack it full of ice, so it was not quite cool. NEVER AGAIN.
2. You're all out of other beer.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I have a Utica Club trolly car Christmas ornament. When I hang it on our tree every year it brings back memories of my misbegotten youth and of Braves/Sabres/Canisius games at the old Memorial Auditorium, where UC was the designated beer on tap and nobody carded you so you could drink as a high school junior and senior, in the good old days when the drinking age in NYS was 18.

 

[Cosmo]

Shoutout to Storm Brew, which R&D Brewing sells for five bucks at Carolina Hurricanes games. You've got to work to find the tables, and it's cash only, but a 16-oz can of cold swill for five bones at an NHL game? Was pleased with the purchase.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Pabst is coming out with a 'craft' IPA.

Pabst Launches Craft Beer Brand, Captain Pabst, with Flagship IPA | Brewbound

 

[Chef2]

Pabst is coming out with a 'craft' IPA.

Pabst Launches Craft Beer Brand, Captain Pabst, with Flagship IPA | Brewbound

What rubbish.
If you're going to be a cheap beer brand, then be a cheap beer brand.

 

[DanOregon]

I saw a six-pack of Olympia in the store the other day. It's now contract brewed by Miller-Coors in Irwindale.

 

[Cosmo]

Yeah, hard pass on PBR's 'craft' efforts. If I'm drinking an IPA, it's going to be local -- one exception, though: That Sierra Nevada Hazy Little Thing is really, really good.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I saw a six-pack of Olympia in the store the other day. It's now contract brewed by Miller-Coors in Irwindale.

It's sad to drive past the old Oly brewery on I-5 in Tumwater and remember that decent low-cost beer, at one point the Coors of the West Coast, used to be brewed there. Kind of like going by the old Rainier brewery on I-5 in Seattle, or to the old Weinhard's brewery location in PDX, where Henry's used to be brewed. An awfully good affordable beer.

Contract brewing may have preserved the brand name, but not the beer.

 

[justgladtobehere]

I saw a six-pack of Olympia in the store the other day. It's now contract brewed by Miller-Coors in Irwindale.

But the Olympia cans told me "It's the water."

 

[ChrisLong]

But the Olympia cans told me "It's the water."

 

[micropolitan guy]

Benjamin Braddock has a can of Oly with him in the pool in the opening scene of "The Graduate." Early product placement.

 

[Cosmo]

When I covered Northern Arizona hoops, the athletic trainer for the basketball team loved the trip to Eastern Washington, because he could get his "Vitamin R"

 

[cyclingwriter2]

When I covered Northern Arizona hoops, the athletic trainer for the basketball team loved the trip to Eastern Washington, because he could get his "Vitamin R"

my father got on a rainier kick in the early 1990s. I assumed it was because cheaper than Koch’s Golden Anniversary.

 

[micropolitan guy]

my father got on a rainier kick in the early 1990s. I assumed it was because cheaper than Koch’s Golden Anniversary.

Koch's, the pride of Dunkirk. They had a holiday ale that was awful.

 

[Scout]

When do we start a ****ty seltzer thread?

Oh wait, it’s all ****ty.

How did Natty Light beat these guys to the punch?

 

[justgladtobehere]

I think the leading hard seltzer is from Boston Beer Co. (Sam Adams). It's the best part of the company's business right now.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Not really beer, but gimme Colt .45s. Preferably inside a plain brown paper bag.

Damn, I miss Olympia.

As an East Coaster with a racing addiction, I was more familiar with Olympia for Big Oly rather than actual beer.

 

[Chef2]

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