Retro Regional Beer Clones

In October's BYO magazine they apparently had some retro regional beer clones. Any subscribers care to chime in if they think it's a decent article?

I plan on making the Hamm's this spring, for obvious reasons....

I'm tempted to spring the 5 bucks for the issue, but I'm worried it'll just be 2 or 6 row with differing amounts of corn or etc.

What beers are in the article?

rockfish42 said:

I'm tempted to spring the 5 bucks for the issue, but I'm worried it'll just be 2 or 6 row with differing amounts of corn or etc.

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But most beers are going to be just that, BUT to achieve the various tastes the ratio is going to be what separates them, as well as any special techniques.

unionrdr said:

I'd bet they're mostly lagers...

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yeah. But most of those "retro" regional lagers are pretty tasty. Any of the pre 80's corporate merger beers. That's why a lot of companies (mostly SAB miller) have released old school recipes of their beers. Strohs's is back for instance. I think some of them taste 10,000 times better than Bud....

I also love Yuengling. Which really hasn't changed their recipes, so you get an idea of how flavorful they were back then.

Revvy said:

What beers are in the article?

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Olympia, Dixie, Choc, Hamm’s and Rolling Rock

It's the special techniques I'm curious about, I already do a pretty mean CAP.

rockfish42 said:

Olympia, Dixie, Choc, Hamm’s and Rolling Rock

It's the special techniques I'm curious about, I already do a pretty mean CAP.

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Just those 5? Maybe I'll pass it by, I was hoping for some more. I'll take a look at it at the lhbs, but I've probably got more interesting regional ones in the links in my Beer History Sites thread, I know I have some regionally specific ones in there.

Revvy said:

yeah. But most of those "retro" regional lagers are pretty tasty. Any of the pre 80's corporate merger beers. That's why a lot of companies (mostly SAB miller) have released old school recipes of their beers. Strohs's is back for instance. I think some of them taste 10,000 times better than Bud....

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I hadn't heard about Stroh's...maybe we don't get that around here. The Schlitz retro is pretty good.

Hammy71 said:

I plan on making the Hamm's this spring, for obvious reasons....

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ditto on the Hamms; it was the first beer I ever tasted, at the tender age of 12. (Oh so many years ago)

rockfish42 said:

Olympia, Dixie, Choc, Hamm’s and Rolling Rock

It's the special techniques I'm curious about, I already do a pretty mean CAP.

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I thought you could still buy Olympia and Rolling Rock.

Supposedly these are older versions of the recipes, Olympia and Rolling rock are made by Inbev and SABMiller respectively now.

Anyone care to share the recipe for Rolling Rock? Id brew that for my dad, he used to drink it back in the day but has since stopped buying it.