Beers You Used To Drink

[Onescalerguy]

Hardly believe no one said Rainier.Rainier drinkers were a very brand loyal bunch.Must be a Pacific North West thing.In my younger days cheap was the key factor.Lucky Lager,Schlitz Bull(malt liquor),Prinz Brau(a short lived Anchorage brewery),Schmidt(animal beer) or Oly.Heinekin when we were flush(yechh).
Cheers

 

[Crazytwoknobs]

That's awesome!! I forgot all about Boone's. I mean who hasn't had a Boone's?

I've never had Boone's Farm, but it seems that every time I tell someone older about my Apfelwein, they mention that they've had Boone's Farm. Then they refuse to try anything I've made.

 

[Boston]

heffenreffer

Remember the rebus puzzle under the bottle cap?

 

[brandona33]

In college it was Milwaukees Best Ice, or Beast Ice as we'd call it. Later on Killians/Yeungling. Now if I'm out, its Smithwicks or SN IPA which I find on tap alot here. We have a place called the Ale House near here with 36 beers on tap and I am working on my tour of the world. Good way to discover new favorites!

 

[Willy Boner]

Hardly believe no one said Rainier.Rainier drinkers were a very brand loyal bunch.Must be a Pacific North West thing.In my younger days cheap was the key factor.Lucky Lager,Schlitz Bull(malt liquor),Prinz Brau(a short lived Anchorage brewery),Schmidt(animal beer) or Oly.Heinekin when we were flush(yechh).
Cheers

Rainier had the best commercials and was the only beer in 16oz. bottles. Olympia had the stubby bottles that was one of my younger favorites

 

[Greggy]

Miller High Life, Any Leinenkugel's, Natty Light..

Thankful to say I don't partake anymore.

Greg

 

[Willy Boner]

I've never had Boone's Farm, but it seems that every time I tell someone older about my Apfelwein, they mention that they've had Boone's Farm. Then they refuse to try anything I've made.

If you ever had a Boone's Farm apple wine hangover, you would not ever believe that anything alcoholic made from apples was made for human consumption. A few of my buddies went cat fishing with a lot of bottles and a big sack full of peanuts, you can figure out the rest.

 

[Willy Boner]

Hardly believe no one said Rainier.Rainier drinkers were a very brand loyal bunch.Must be a Pacific North West thing.In my younger days cheap was the key factor.Lucky Lager,Schlitz Bull(malt liquor),Prinz Brau(a short lived Anchorage brewery),Schmidt(animal beer) or Oly.Heinekin when we were flush(yechh).
Cheers

Rainier had the best commercials and was the only beer in 16oz. bottles. Olympia had the stubby bottles that was one of my younger favorites

 

[Matt Foley]

Hardly believe no one said Rainier.Rainier drinkers were a very brand loyal bunch.Must be a Pacific North West thing.In my younger days cheap was the key factor.Lucky Lager,Schlitz Bull(malt liquor),Prinz Brau(a short lived Anchorage brewery),Schmidt(animal beer) or Oly.Heinekin when we were flush(yechh).
Cheers

Now you are talking my language. Those Northwest beers were popular in my neck of the woods growing up in Northern Idaho and Western Montana. Loved the Rainer, Lucky Lager, Oly, and Hamms (great grenade bottles). Used to get the Rainer on tap. That was sweet. In fact my first homebrew in the late 80s was bottled in Rainer pounders. Good times.

 

[rflem550]

In highschool, I used to love Rolling Rock in the summertime.....Haven't had it in years.

 

[Bearcat Brewmeister]

Ha! I WAS legal during high school! Well, at least during the second half of my senior year, anyway. The drinking age in WI was 18 back then.

Ah, the good old days. Our school indirectly helped pay for the beer at our senior picnic. We had seniors from student council checking for ID (you can guess how that went, on top of the fact that we had the old non-laminated, no picture driver's licences back then).

My drinks of choice in high school were Miller and Old Style. For a while when I bartended, I drank MGD Light.

 

[FatMonsters]

I've never had Boone's Farm, but it seems that every time I tell someone older about my Apfelwein, they mention that they've had Boone's Farm. Then they refuse to try anything I've made.

You're not missing anything special. And that sucks that they won't try it based on Boone's. Boone's should not be the standard to base off of for anything...IMO

 

[jds]

What I drank in high school? Bud, vodka swiped from dad's stash, Schaefer
College? Keystone, Keystone Light, Mickey's, Carlsberg Elephant, Glacier Bay, rolling Rock, Coors, Coors, more Coors, and occasionally Killian's.

Of all those, elephant is the only one I miss.

 

[Beerthoven]

I used to beer bong Mickey's Malt Liquor with a shot of Southern Comfort in it. Two or three of those would get the evening started.

My friends and I would drink until we were going to puke, then order pizza. By the time the pizza got there we were all done puking and the food was good. Then we would start drinking again. Its a wonder some of us didn't die of alcohol poisoning.

Sometimes we would go to a friend's parents' cabin at Canadian Lakes (somewhere in mid-Michigan) and party like crazy. I remember riding a 4-wheel ATV and firing a shot gun. Then crashing the ATV. Don't remember much else about that particular outing. Its a wonder some of us didn't die from gunshot wounds or get crushed by off road vehicles.

Anyway, back to this threads regular programming...

 

[BarleyWater]

I was definately slumming it when I was in high school... Mickey's was #1, followed closely by Old English, mmm malt liquor (who gave a **** right, we just wanted to be drunk.) I actually have never liked BMC though, Mickey's was good for getting you drunk after math class, but I would always drink killians, rolling rock or heineken when I had a choice and i also liked the canadians, of course it's hard to have a choice when you aren't legal and the only thing you can readilly get your hands on is Mickey's.

 

[eddie]

For me it was either Everclear and Hawaiian Punch or Bud.

 

[billym99]

keystone light! all about the 30 stones in college... drank mgd when i was feeling wealthy.

 

[Bytor1100]

I used to drink mickeys 40 oz's. COuldn't beat less than 2.00 each. We even wrote a song about it you can hear at http://www.myspace.com/leftfieldband called green hornet

 

[talleymonster]

In High School, whatever we could get our hands on: Natural Ice, Mickeys 40s, Old English 800, Steele Reserve, Skyy Blue p), Budweiser, PBR, Corona, Coors, MGD, etc.

I used to drink a lot of Budweiser and J.W. Dundee's Honey Brown.....a lot.
I used to love Newcastle, I kind of still do. But it's hard to find a bottle that has not been skunked. When I do buy it (which is rare anymore) it is the sealed 24 packs that have not been exposed to too much light.

 

[coastalgriff]

Every Thursday in high school after class it was cases of Mickey's 40's and barbecue pool side. There were a lot of Friday's I didn't make it to class. It was like clockwork. We'd show up at the Iranian liquor store, walk back into the cooler where our special order was stacked, load up as one of us paid the man. When I was at the house I mooched the old man's weinhards, pyramid, beamish stout and others. I also went through a heineken and leinenkugles(sp) spree when I went to KU. That's just when I couln't make it to the local brewery for a few growlers though. Now I just drink shiner and a few lone stars with my redneck friends.

 

[dibby33]

Tennents Lager.
Now I would rather drink my own wee.

 

[Bosh]

In college my standard liquor store run was:
-case of Golden Brown
-handle of decent vodka
-six pack of good beer

Golden Brown was cheap as all hell and had marginally more flavor than anything else that cheap.

Hite for a while, then Tsingtao because it was cheap at the Chinese grocery, now mostly my homebrew or Max which is the best Korean beer (not saying much, but it does have Cascade hops and has no corn or rice which is nice).

 

[King of the Swill]

In high school I drank way more than my share of Old Style (midwest thing). In college it was whatever was cheapest--usually Keystone. When I had a few extra bucks in college it was Miller Lite. Later, I went to Stroh's 30packs. To be different at times we would buy Little Kings, Sapporo's or Foster's in the oil can. The only cheap beer I drank that I thought actually tasted like beer was Miller High Life or MGD. After homebrewing, I can't taste much of anything with High Life or MGD--that sucks.

 

[BigKahuna]

Coors light...By th truck load....Then when I realized that it was as bad as Keystone...Keystone Light....By the truck load for $2.00 less.

 

[WilliamSlayer]

I found this here in Maryland even though I remember drinking this back in New England years ago. Not a great beer, (comparable to Busch beer) but a heck of a trip down memory lane!

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[Mexibilly]

New Belgium Ranger

 

[brew_ny]

many cold 40s of Colt 45 out of a brown paper bag

 

[jeff62217]

I can remember drinking plenty of skunky 40s of old english, king cobra and mickeys.. We used to refer to king cobra as 'the snake'... it was most definitely a term of endearment.

 

[BigJack]

I drank a lot of OE in the 40oz back in the day, then jumped to Red Dog, and then classed up and started in on Killian's Irish Red.

 

[Hoppity]

Tuborg Gold: The Beer of Danish Kings
$3.99 a case for long neck bottles and no deposit. Bud cost $4.25. Guess what we bought in H.S.?

When buying for keg parties it was always Bud or Shaefer.
I worked a day camp one summer with Rudy Shaefer, the last male bearing that last name at the time. I wonder if he ever had a son? Dead end otherwise.