beers of yesteryear

[fluketamer]

out of this list of defunct US breweries which do you remember trying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_breweries_in_the_United_States


i remember drinking :
Hamms
rheingold when they made a return
pabst (before 2010 version)
schlitz (70's version not the pbr one today)
schafer (original not pbr verison)
ballentine
strohs

any one else remember drinking these defunct (pretty bad) beers

 

[day_trippr]

Being a New Yorker and Yankees fan my dad's preference was for Ballantine, both the Ale and the IPA. He hung with them through their rocky 60s but iirc he eventually switched to Schlitz (I was on my own by then)...

Cheers!

 

[mac_1103]

any one else remember drinking these defunct (pretty bad) beers

All of them. And all were better than the present-day BMC light lagers. Of course, the BMC light lagers that I drank in my youth were also much better than the present-day versions; they actually tasted something like beer.

There was a place my softball buddies and I used to hang out at back in the early 1980s that had Stroh's in 16 oz long necks for a buck (75 cents during happy hour but unfortunately our games were usually during happy hour). We drank those suckers until they ran out after every game.

Plenty of others from that era like Schmidt's, Blatz, Natty Boh, Narragansett, etc. Not even sure which ones are gone and which are now just BMC with a different label.

 

[fluketamer]

i forgot about schmidts. it was like water. literally mostly water i think
you are right they were better back then
i miss ballys ale.

out of the ones i listed i would have to say rheingold was the best
and hamms by far the worst.
lol

 

[mac_1103]

i forgot about schmidts. it was like water. literally mostly water i think

My dad used to buy it because it was 69 cents a six pack at the local Daitch Shopwell supermarket (speaking of defunct...). He only drank beer on really hot summer days and he drank it at about 33F so it wasn't going to taste like much of anything anyway.

 

[wdavis2003]

I have a Hamm's in my fridge right now. Good stuff

 

[whoaru99]

I have a Hamm's in my fridge right now. Good stuff

It has somewhat of a local following, Land of Sky Blue Waters and all that.

 

[Agent]

It has somewhat of a local following, Land of Sky Blue Waters and all that.

At $13/30pack and right up there with the other light lagers, I'd say rightfully so!

 

[jdauria]

Growing up in CT, it was:

Knickerbocker
Rhinegold
Ballentine
Schaefer
Hull's A local New Haven brewery
Michelob

 

[hottpeper13]

The only beer you could get on the naval base in Puertorico was Shaefer and it tasted like formaldehyde. I switched to rum!

 

[mac_1103]

Knickerbocker

How could I have forgotten Colonel Ruppert's beer?

 

[mashpaddled]

Definitely had Celis and Pyramid once upon a time.

A lot of those brands are still in production through the larger conglomerates that bought them out. I had Hamm's, Ranier, Pabst, Lone Star not all that long ago.

 

[TexasTea]

All of them OP listed except for rhinegold