PABST or SCHLITZ...

or Miller High Life, or was Iron City your favorite brew back then, back when gas was 25 cents a gallon? I mean, any memories o' them days, fergittin' the church key, stuff like that.

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Blue
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Back in the days of "Iron Men and Wooden Ships", I got spoiled by my first voyage aboard a submarine to the Mediterranean where I drank beer in Italy, Germany, and Denmark. Later I was on the crew of a submarine stationed in the Holy Loch in Scotland. My favorite beers were Wee Heavy Scottish Ales and India Pale Ales. These were hard to find in the states. Since gas was 25 cent a gallon, beer was 10 cents a glass. So we would order three glasses of Riengold and a bottle of Guiness plus an empty glass and mix them three to one to get a beer with a decent taste.

My first wife had a child by her first marriage and I decided to never smoke or drink in the presence of children. After we divorced, I went to McEwans Scotch Ale when drinking for taste. But ifs you want to get a cheap hig and you don't a damn about taste, 20+ years ago Schlitz Malt Liquor Blue was

69 cents for a 24 oz can.

Dick

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Dick Adams

I beliefve my favorite beverage back when gas was 25 cents a gallon was whatever my mom put in the bottle.

A few years later, I liked Hamm's because of the bear commercials. And it was what my grandfather drank and let me have a sip of every once in a while.

When I actually started drinking beer as an adult, I actually spent little time with the standard American offerings. Maybe a few months of Rolling Rock before moving onto some of the standard European imports, and then discovering micros c. 1990.

-Steve

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Steve Jackson

Coors was brew of choice for real and wannabe west coast surfers.

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John S.

Sometimes I believe my father-in-law that Pabst, Miller, etc. were better decades ago but then I read my copy of Fred Eckhardt's "A Treatise On Lager Beer" which was published in 1971 and he rails on the bland state of American macro lager.

I never liked beer until the first brewpub opened in Tulsa around

1990. I drove by everyday and watched them build it, then on the first day I walked in and tried everything they had. I couldn't believe the tastes! Simply awesome. Since that day I have gone back and sampled Hamms, Rolling Rock and others and found them bland of course but also too sweet. If I try to drink more than one I find myself longing for a nice bitter handcrafted pils or IPA.

_Randal

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Randal

As a teen back in the late 60s, I enjoyed it when my Dad bought some Ballantine XXX Ale. I got to, occasionally, drink a brew with Sunday's meal and the XXX was my favourite.

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Bill Becker

Being only 36, I did not sip from the vat in those days, but I do have some great memories of said offending ales. The best one was from my little league days. These were the days of hard core polyester hand- me-down uniforms and stirrup socks that stretched up to the knee - or at least they damn well better. Anyway, at our games in the late 70's/ early 80's, the parents needed some relief from the monotony of bad baseball and summer heat, so they all brought their coolers packed with all manner of bad beer, including Schlitz, Pabst, Miller (regular, not Lite), Bud, and Coors. However, in a vain attempt to seem like law abiding citizens, they would dress the offending beverages up in thin little rubber or vinyl wraps that would adhere to the condensation - the sleeves were perversions of soda pop logos. For instance Mountain Dew was "Mountain Dow", Pepsi was "Pipsi" and Coca-Cola was "Caca-Calo". They would pop a top, drop the top INSIDE of the beer 'cause, you know, they didn't want to litter, and drink this gawd-awful brew all day long at the park in the hot sun.

This is all I could find on the wraps, but they definitely aren't the ones from back in the day:

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Ben Miller

I'm not that old, but my uncle always had plenty of Ballantine Ale in his fridge during that age when I was not legally old enough but they'd let me get away with it once in a while around family. To this day, it's still my lawn-mowing beer. Also, doing the rebuses under the cap can be a good indicator of when to stop cracking open Ballentines.

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Albert Worschey

Having grown up in a German family I was allowed to drink beer at a young age, a few onces or so in a "cheese glass." I was taught at a very young age to drink in moderation, by example. That's what I did with my kids, and they got the idea, including being designated driver at a few picnics. Even though we were legally sober, it was nice to let them participating in doing the right thing.

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Bill Davidsen

Besides Genesee, Rochester, NY folks might remember Standard Dry Ale. My father liked that right up until the early '70s when they quite making the stuff.

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Curtis R Anderson

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