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Re: Remembering Some Strange Old Brews

1) Long before the Lite beers you see today, there was a reduced

> calorie beer called "Gablinger" which came in a brown can. > > 2) Then there was "Old Frothingslosh" which was also called "Pale > Stale Ale." The cans featured pictures of a 300-lb.- bathing beauty. > I still have two of the cans which are constructed with a very rigid > metal. I guess all cans of beers in those days had metal that > required a lot of effort to squeeze and flatten. How soon we forget. > > 3) A very unusual tasting malt liquor was "Champale" which came in > green/yellow 12 oz. cans. In later years, they packaged it in bottles > in 4-packs, and had several varieties such as a pink-colored one > called "Pink Champale." > > 4) I recall when "National Bohemian" had a special sale on their > quart-sized bottles of brew. 3 QUARTS FOR A DOLLAR!!! That was cheap > even in 1962. > > The National Boh name is still around but I guess the others are long > gone. > > BroJack

When I was young and first married I bought the cheapest beer available in

1961 South Bend, Indiana; Alps Brau from Chicago - $3.95/case....
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Phxbrd
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Fort Wayne's Old Crown brewery made the best ale and bock in the midwest - bar none....

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Phxbrd

Nah, but the Berghoff Brewery in Ft. Wayne, which was bought by Falstaff, DID make the greatest ale of the pre-micro era- Ballantine India Pale Ale (altho', by the time it hit Ft. Wayne, it was already a mere shadow of it's former self...). As Michael Jackson said "IndiaNA Pale Ale"?

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jesskidden

If I remember, this was a product of the Pittsburg Brewing Company (Iron City) not sure of when it was produced.

it was also called the Pale Stale Ale with the foam on the bottom.

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The artist formerly Known as B

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David

Fallstaff brewed in San Jose, not San Francisco. Brown Derby sold at Safeway. And, Regal Select - 3 qts for a dollar in

1969.

I considered those to be "bear-whiz" beer, and preferred, than as now, Anchor Steam. When I was young and broke, I would buy a bottle of Anchor to drink first, than a six-pack of the bear-whiz to finish. I figured that I lost my palate after two or three anyway.

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rchrdprss

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