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YooperDog Yes, that would have been around the time. It was a thing for a while back then. I don’t know if they make Tuborg or Carling, either one any more. Margaret & I used to go into a little shop in Jacksonville back in the mid to late 70’s called Mr. Dunderbac’s or something like that. She drank a little beer back then. I just liked to try the variety of products they had along with a good Reuben on Jewish Rye. Her favorite was called Kronenburg, from Alsace & it is pretty good. We could not find it for years, but every now & then in my travels & tasting, I find some & bring her back a pack. The call it Kronenburg 1694 or something like that now.
calldoctoday Yes I remember all those. I haven’t seen any of them recently, but do remember seeing Kroneburg on the self way after the others were gone. Back in my youth I was more focused on how much beer I could buy with my limited funds than how the beer tasted. Better get back to work.
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calldoctoday Yes I remember all those. I haven’t seen any of them recently, but do remember seeing Kroneburg on the self way after the others were gone. Back in my youth I was more focused on how much beer I could buy with my limited funds than how the beer tasted. Better get back to work.
YooperDog Another I can’t find any more is Heileman’s Special Export, very good beer
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day
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calldoctoday Yes I remember all those. I haven’t seen any of them recently, but do remember seeing Kroneburg on the self way after the others were gone. Back in my youth I was more focused on how much beer I could buy with my limited funds than how the beer tasted. Better get back to work.
YooperDog Yes, as much as I liked trying the interesting stuff when I could find it or figure out how to afford it, that was probably the reason for the Carling Black Label as well. I also liked Hamm’s pretty much as a go to when I was further out west at times & another one out that way, that I cannot recall. No, I have not tried them all.
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glen I seem to recall that as well. There is another bottle of some stuff I have stashed away, more for decoration now. Never opened. It was in a ceramic decanter with a ceramic shot glass of sorts on the top. I cannot recall the name of it right now, so I will have to pull it out & see if anyone remembers it. As interesting as it sounds, the taste was not that good.
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glen calldoctoday when I start reminiscing I can start recalling labels; Heilemans for sure Getlemans, Grainbelt… I remember one it cost $5 for a case of 24 bottles called Northern, my buddies and I thought we had a steal. You popped that cap and the room began to smell like a roadkill skunk. I don’t think anyone could ever finish a bottle, but we kept it around just in case.
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zbigjeff It was Coors Leaded too as the unleaded version did not exist. I keep thinking that the first unleaded version of anything was Busch & it came out if I remember correctly in the mid to late 70’s. I was a member of the Jacksonville Chapter for Electrical Engineering at the time & for one of our meetings we met at the brewery & they were providing the first samples of whatever it was that was “light”. For the life of me, I cannot remember the meeting subject matter, but I remember everyone thinking & joking the Busch Light or whatever it was, was just “Jacksonville Tap Water”. That was probably about 1978. It stuck never the less. I don’t think the Coors Light came out until after we had moved to Texas in 1980 when I was transferred.
calldoctoday Yes, it was all leaded until about the time you indicate. But, at 18 I was able to drink it and everything was supposedly 3/2 beer.
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glen calldoctoday when I start reminiscing I can start recalling labels; Heilemans for sure Getlemans, Grainbelt… I remember one it cost $5 for a case of 24 bottles called Northern, my buddies and I thought we had a steal. You popped that cap and the room began to smell like a roadkill skunk. I don’t think anyone could ever finish a bottle, but we kept it around just in case.
YooperDog That’s exactly what we said about Stroh’s. We used to call it “panther piss”.
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First beer in a month. Hits the spot today!
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ND Mike Sounds like it was worth the wait. Congrats
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One of my favorite hobbies is brewing beer. So I don’t drink many store bought beers anymore.
You never work a day in your life if you love what you do.
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One of my favorite hobbies is brewing beer. So I don’t drink many store bought beers anymore.
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kyle It can be. But it’s really not a difficult process
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One of my favorite hobbies is brewing beer. So I don’t drink many store bought beers anymore.
Lance You have quite a set up there. That beer looks mighty fine.
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One of my favorite hobbies is brewing beer. So I don’t drink many store bought beers anymore.
Lance Really love the glass. Keep on making what you like to drink and smile.
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zbigjeff Yet another one I now remember along with Pearl. Thank you for reminding me of Stroh’s. Now I remember another one that I did like believe it or not back then & it came in that old bottle, if I remember correctly, Falstaff. The name of that other one that I still have a bottle of & could not remember, that went out early was Burgermeister.
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One of my favorite hobbies is brewing beer. So I don’t drink many store bought beers anymore.
Lance That is one of the finest, creamiest heads I have ever seen. Very nice. I have always wanted to get that started, but never been quite able & worry about the temps & humidity here too. Nice work, leads to good pleasure!
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zbigjeff Yet another one I now remember along with Pearl. Thank you for reminding me of Stroh’s. Now I remember another one that I did like believe it or not back then & it came in that old bottle, if I remember correctly, Falstaff. The name of that other one that I still have a bottle of & could not remember, that went out early was Burgermeister.
calldoctoday Pearl beer, I can remember that along with Lonestar. Two beers made in San Antonio. When we were there when I was little they took us to both breweries for tours all the time. I think my dad just went for the free beer. I can remember the hall of horns at the Lonestar brewery.
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calldoctoday Pearl beer, I can remember that along with Lonestar. Two beers made in San Antonio. When we were there when I was little they took us to both breweries for tours all the time. I think my dad just went for the free beer. I can remember the hall of horns at the Lonestar brewery.
johnsbrewhouse I remember North Star when I was young, needed a can opener to open them.
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One of my favorite hobbies is brewing beer. So I don’t drink many store bought beers anymore.
Lance nice looking set up.
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I remember when I was young and you couldn’t get Coors, the custom combiners would bring back many cases of it and sell it for far more than they paid for it.
bocephus back in the late 70s I was lucky enough to take a trip to Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron NM, as a Boy Scout. We made the trip from Ohio on a Charter bus. The bus driver made a couple stops at some stores and loaded up one of the empty luggage compartments in the belly with Coors. Being Scouts, we all helped load multiple cases onto the bus. Probably a good thing cell phones and cameras did not exists. The videos would have been hilarious, with a group of Boy Scouts loading illegal beer onto a bus for out of state transport. Im sure that driver made out when he got back to Ohio. Something tells me he had done it before.
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