Lone Star Beer

Drive to Massachusetts and buy some? (I know, isn't that backwards? Don't MA residents drive to NH for beer and cigarettes?) According to Pabst's annoying website, it distributed there by Merrimack and Burke distributors.

Click on "Our Beers", Click on "Lone Star", Click on "Massachusetts" on "Availablity" map for phone number of distributors and *hopefully* they can steer you to a retailer.

Otherwise, there's mail order but it's the not the kind of beer normally carried by specialty beer retailers.

Drink a Pabst-I'm pretty sure they come out if the same faucet!

Unbelievable - I left Massachusetts and now I have to go back for beer! Yikes - yes, definitely backwards!

I think their website is kind of cute - and I love the stringent security measures they have in place!

Thanks, ~ Harley

I'm a native & I can safely say that no one here in Texas actually drinks the stuff... except for maybe minors, illegal aliens or alcoholics (anyone who'll drink anything they can get their hands on). It is really not that great.

It is like our joke on the rest of the nation (like Coors is for Colorado). Heck, even the hip tourists to Texas drink Shiner.

Lone Star is not even on the same level as the big three national brands. It is more on par with Pearl (alas, another lame beer from my great state), Schlitz/Stroh's, Keystone or Meisterbrau.

Maybe I'm just being a snob... in the late 1980's but I pretty much transcended pasturized force-carbonated beers and started drinking mostly micros and European beers. I haven't had anything in a can or with a twist-off top for about 15 years.

"- - : R A T B o y : - -" wrote in message news:1rC8h.1445$ snipped-for-privacy@tornado.texas.rr.com...

Hey, you took *my* response!

Seriously, some good beer is being canned, and plenty of craft-brewed US beer can be found in bottles with twist-off caps. Welcome to the modern world.

Yeah, I know Lone Star Beer gets a bad rap - but my father used to love the stuff years ago when he was in the Service. And when we could buy it around here, it was my first beer . . . and first hangover. I want to have a case of it here for Christmas Day - my dad would get a huge kick out of it!

~ Harley

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I donno.... I see a lot of dead armadillos on the side of the road enjoying a Lone Star...

I'm always obliged to have one when we're in Fort Worth North Side. (Cowtown Stock Yards) To me it's no better or worse then a Bud, which of course isn't saying much.

And although I'm partial to Belgian brews, there are plenty of domestic offerings that I enjoy.

Larry T

I didn't know it was a beer.....

Yeah, that's the reason a lot of people go looking for a regional or foreign beer- for nostalgia's sake or a gift for someone. One of the often over-looked factors in "tasting" beer is the environment. People are always going to look back fondly for their old local favorite beer (heck, it's the reason why so many brands continue to be marketed after bouncing from brewer to brewer) or that "great" beer they had in the Army in Germany or on vacation in Ireland.

Sad to say, the beer itself will be experienced as not "the same" (since the Guinness you drank pint after pint of, singing in a pub with your girl friend and the locals doesn't "taste" like the Guinness you're swigging out of a can while you watch reruns and eat a TV dinner in the crummy apartment you rented after the divorce).

In the case of US light lagers- yeah, maybe they all taste the same/don't taste the way we remember, but, what the heck, sometimes it's just nice to see an "old friend" beer label in front of you...

All the "that beer is crap" "nobody drinks that stuff in Texas" (gotta wonder what those 40 or so Lone Star Distributors Pabst lists are doing in that state) responses sort of miss the point.

(All that said- I still long for a Ballantine XXX Ale in a deposit bottle- yeah, it tasted "different/better" in that package- out of Newark or even Cranston.)

Like this:

-Steve

Frank Mancuso wrote in news:SXB8h.1442$Gk5.576 @tornado.texas.rr.com:

Correct. I still remember the tank job Pabst did on good old Olympia afer they bought them out.

I see your point here...ouch..c

Yeah, I had a hard time getting it through my thick head that the OP really meant Lone Star and not Shiner (Bock). I do hear a lot of people in MO pine for Shiner Bock. I've only had it in cans on Southwest Airline flights (it ranks near the top of their offerings, just above HindLicken) and I really can't see what the buzz is about. Though unlike the pathetic crap stampede herded by the giant Pabst conglomeration, Shiner makes some interesting variations, not unlike true craft brewers do.

Comboverfish

You're not being a snob, I started drinking Lone Star in college because I didn't know any better till I tried other brands. Then I knew just how bad it really was. Roy "- - : R A T B o y : - -" wrote in message news:1rC8h.1445$ snipped-for-privacy@tornado.texas.rr.com...