Beers You Used To Drink

[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.

 

[Zekk]

Natty light, used to drink it almost everyday in college. And just about any malt liquor, don't really drink 40s any more.

 

[coyotebrew]

Reinlander, taste like horse &! $$ but it was cheap!

 

[brew_ny]

any Genesee product cream ale, 12 horse ale, bock beer etc

cheap here in New York and not so bad

 

[TheMadKing]

cut my teeth on keystone light just out of highschool, then upgraded to $4 midnight pitchers of Blue Moon at the local Denny's during college

 

[1977Brewer]

High Life tall boys.

 

[jkovac]

Drank massive amounts of Robin Hood Cream Ale in college, especially freshman and sophomore years. Still remember the catchphrase printed on the labels:

"Hail ye, men of adventure! Join Robin Hood for a truly satisfying cream ale."

One time I had a bottle of it that, after I was almost finished with it, realized there was a sludge of some goop containing metal filings in the bottom of the bottle.

So it really was pretty adventurous.

 

[pointcity-homebrew]

Southpaw, nothing compares to a SP hangover.....

 

[drainbamage]

I used to drink a ton of Amber Bock when I first started branching it. It was the first non-lite beer I tried. Nowadays it doesn't have the same magic.

Woodchuck cider is another one. My one friend used always bring it to parties before he got a taste for beer. It's still ok once in a while, but I never really find myself seeking it out.

 

[slym2none]

Southpaw, nothing compares to a SP hangover.....

I loved that stuff - it was so cheap, I would buy a 12-pack and use 8-10 of them in my water-pan for my smoker when making BBQ. The other 2-4 I would drink while BBQ'ing. It really wasn't terrible beer, for a BMC product. I never did drink enough to really catch a buzz though, much less get a hangover.

 

[normonster]

Henry Winehards. After the 40oz phase of Mickeys, OE, St.Ides and all that, of course.

Nothing worse than the tail end of a Mickeys 64oz bottle...awe man.

 

[BigJack]

Nothing worse than the tail end of a Mickeys 64oz bottle...awe man.

Ever play a game of Mickey 40 Hands?

 

[MindenMan]

My buddy George and I started calling the Coors Light "Silver Bullets" in the late 1970's when they first came out. Bummer we didn't trademark that name ourselves...

 

[Michigan_Wolfman]

Used to enjoy Bud Ice, then out of the blue, I couldn't even drink more than a few sips of it without developing a pounding headache. No other commercial beer I've ever tried has had that effect on me.

 

[njviking]

Well my parents owned a bar from 73 to 87 so i got a chance to drink some incredibly horrific beers.

I remember my first beer, the ill fated Miller classic in 79 or 80.
followed by a furry of
1. Blatz
2.Schmidts
3 Iron city
4 Goebles
5 Old German
6 Golden anniversary
7Rolling rock
8 Kohler.. we even had a big beer cooler that was shaped like a Koler bottle.
9 Genesee
10. Straub

All these beers were the basically half if not more he cost of "premium" beers so we drank bunches of them and they were all gooder than hell.

I still drink Straub greenies, but thats about all i can stomach on that list. I dont think they make Blarz anymor and pretty sure Kohler is gone too.

Aaah memories.

Fast forward to today, my friends and I have agreat big family cook out once a year and the theme is always drink your dads beer. You should see the stuff that rolls in.

 

[njviking]

Well my parents owned a bar from 73 to 87 so i got a chance to drink some incredibly horrific beers.

I remember my first beer, the ill fated Miller classic in 79 or 80.
followed by a furry of
1. Blatz
2.Schmidts
3 Iron city
4 Goebles
5 Old German
6 Golden anniversary
7Rolling rock
8 Kohler.. we even had a big beer cooler that was shaped like a Koler bottle.
9 Genesee
10. Straub

All these beers were the basically half if not more he cost of "premium" beers so we drank bunches of them and they were all gooder than hell.

I still drink Straub greenies, but thats about all i can stomach on that list. I dont think they make Blarz anymor and pretty sure Kohler is gone too.

Aaah memories.

Fast forward to today, my friends and I have agreat big family cook out once a year and the theme is always drink your dads beer. You should see the stuff that rolls in.

 

[Brew_Dude41]

Mickey's in the squat big mouth bottle. Those 'brain grenades' wrecked more than a few mornings....

 

[slym2none]

Anyone else remember Bud Dry?

It was better than regular Budweiser... but then again, I think the blood of a Xenomorph would taste better than regular Budweiser.

 

[WilliamSlayer]

I hs d a Budweiser recently just as a reminder to myself what I used to drink. Its amazing to me now how flavorless that beer now seems!

 

[UltraHighABV]

NewCastle used to be my favorite beer; now i cant stand it, too watered down. Also, any IPA (let the angry mob congregate)

 

[MaxStout]

Old Mil
Old Style
Schlitz
Blatz
Mickey's (in green big mouth bottles)
Miller Hi-Life
PBR

If I was feeling rich, I'd buy a sixer of Lowenbrau.