Falstaff and Dixie beer

In New Orleans in the 1979, I had a walker of Jax, a local beer. Upon opening tasting it, I spat it out of my mouth. That also occured with Billy Beer and with Pfieffer's.

Dick

A "walker"? Never heard that expression- but, considering it was NO, does it refer to a single 12 oz. bottle "to go" (possibly in a bag) so one can "walk" around the Quarter, drinking?

Well, if it *was* truly "local", you were right to spit it out since it would have been 5 years old or so. By '79, Jax Beer was a just a label of the Pearl Brewing Co., so you have to blame the Texans for the poor showing of the beer by then if it was fresh. (Jackson Brewing closed in '74). With that restored brewery building sitting right in the middle of tourist area, you'd think that Pabst (which owns the Pearl brands as well as just about every other beer label from the past) would be still be marketing a Jax Beer and take advantage of all that free advertising...

I was in New Orleans in the mid-90's and was surprised that I found NO Dixie anywhere I looked. When I finally found a bottle of Blackened Voodoo (at the snack bar at that Oak Plantation, of all places) it was well past it's prime as far as freshness. Even drove down to the brewery where, supposedly, they had built a "beer garden" but it was closed and sure looked to have been converted back to a loading dock area by then. Didn't realize that Dixie had gone to a premium priced product in it's home town (as was noted in the linked discussion)- that might explain why it was so hard to find. The Dixie and Blackened Voodoo just re-entered the NJ market (contract brewed by the former Huber Brewery in WI) and it's priced at craft beer levels.

A walker is a styrofoam cup of any size.

Did you ever complain to brewery? Texas breweries have no reason reason to listen cause they have a lock on the cowboy and redneck market. Afterall in Texas a seven course meal is Chicken Fried Steak and a six-pack of Lone Star beer.

You expect(ed) me to complain to a brewery because you didn't like a styrofoam (uhg!) cup of their beer?

On 11/4/2007 4:34 AM Dick Adams ignored two million years of human evolution to write:

Also known as a "geaux-cup" (pronounced go-cup, of course). Can contain a beer or a daiquiri or a hurricane or ...

OT: Hey, absinthe is legal again in the USA. I wonder if the Old Absinthe House in NOLA will step up?

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