Yup, nasty stuff. Just like Billy beer.
Posted on 09/22/2014 6:51:25 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Corona does taste good. Germans taught the Mexicans how to make good beer.
I actually like Pabst and know a relative of the founding family.
They still make that swill?
WATCH YOUR MOUTH!!
Actually, Hudephol is back on the market. Somebody resurrected it. For a cheap beer, it’s not too bad.
Blatz was a sponsor on the old Amos’n’Andy show on TV. A collection of their funniest commercials here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoUZdyMRsKk
Lone Star Beer, the premium beer brewed in San Antonio, has been gone for many years.
Lone Star, and probably a lot of the rest of the old regional beers that Pabst has bought up, really used to be premium beer. As beers went national, and as the vast majority of the beer sold in this country was taken over by just two holding companies, Anheuser-Busch and Miller, Lone Star could not compete in terms of advertising, shelf space (all but monopolized by the big two) or sponsorship. Again like a lot of other regional beers it held on for a while by going down market and turning out a cheaper product that did not even try to compete as a premium beer.
But the big two have their own midrange and bargain priced beers, and as beer drinkers became folks who had never seen a Lone Star commercial on television, or drank one made the old fashioned way, that too became a losing proposition, and the brewery closed down. Now days Lone Star is just a name and a trade mark that Miller is paid to slap on the labels of a portion of the ocean of corn and rice based swill that it produces in its huge plant in Fort Worth.
Anyone remember the swill that was brewed in SoCal called “Brew 102”? It was $3-4 a case and truly nasty stuff.....
>>Lone Star, and probably a lot of the rest of the old regional beers that Pabst has bought up, really used to be premium beer. <<
I remember Lone Star taking a run at being a national brand. I even remember the rather funny commercials: “ain’t got no Lone Star Beer! Lone Star Beer!”
Alas, I think they shot their wad and it killed them...
Hamms is also owned by Pabst. And now the Russians.
You are point on with these two. These are about the only beers I will refuse. Can't imagine how much Corona is sold in US.
Yup, nasty stuff. Just like Billy beer.
Just about all the low-end beers you guys are posting (Blatz, Lone Star, Olympia, Natty Bo) are owned by Pabst and now by the Russians.
>>Anyone remember the swill that was brewed in SoCal called “Brew 102”? It was $3-4 a case and truly nasty stuff.....<<
I even remember the big tank off the 110 freeway near downtown L.A. that was labeled “Brew 102” and the commercials “You can pay more but you can’t get a better brew than Brew 102.”
Anyone remember Olympia Beer (Oley)?
Ahhh, Little Kinks. Perfect size for sneaking them around in the HS days.
Was just reading about Hudy on Wiki. The company that now owns them bought all the rights and recipes for the Hudephol-Schoenling brewing Co.
The only Hudy they sell that’s brewed in Cinci is sold in Cinci. All other cans, bottles and draughts are brewed in WI., or PA.
Будем здоровы!
Not Natty Boh!
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