Posted on 08/21/2007 9:08:08 AM PDT by toddlintown
My parents once told me that I enjoyed my first beer when I was about three or four years old. I would help myself (so the story goes) to my Dad’s fish-bowl-sized schooner, filled with beer from one of the local breweries that still operated in Chicago during the 1950s. I don’t remember any of this, unfortunately, but the tale’s become a family standard.
I do remember my second taste of beer, this one from the “Land of Sky Blue Water.” I was a mere lad of thirteen. This beer drinker’s rite of passage took place at the grammar school graduation party of a friend of mine, a hot day in June as I recall. All the parents were upstairs in the kitchen enjoying the cooling effects of a window-unit air conditioner and iced beer. Downstairs in the basement, a reserve cooler of beer was calling to my friend and me. I don’t remember if it was the cartoon enticements of the Hamm’s bear or untapped teenage curiosity but we went down to the basement where the cooler sat and each grabbed a blue, flat-topped steel can and opened them with a “church key.” I got past my second chug of cold beer but stopped when I thought I was going to puke.
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Nope...I had my first drink of “Busch Bavarian” out of a baby bottle and I still drink Busch Light to this day. My Grandpa, who owned a tavern, gave it to me to keep me quiet and I got drunk for the first time at age 8. I never get a hangover from it, no matter how much I drink, all the other beers give me nasty side effects.
IMO, worst beer ever: Cave Creek Chili Beer. It should only be drunk before you have sauntered up to the grave of a family enemy or rotten liberal politician whose grave you wish to pee upon (particularly in Massachusetts).
There's a girl in her bare feet
Asleep on the backseat
And that trunk's full of Shiner Bock and Lonestar
one of the biggest scams ever foisted on the US was prohibition, and it still has a pretty big legacy today, because good beer now has a yuppie connotation, even when the product is lousy. To add insult to injury it is also expensive.
Were you one of the Lone Star Girls back in Lubbock?
“IMO, worst beer ever: Cave Creek Chili Beer.”
I had to buy a six pack of that one time, because it said “cave” on the label. It is like you say, probably the worst beer ever. I couldn’t even give it away.
Niether. Bobs tastebuds are dying...
Yeungling here in Pa, Shiner Boch and the occasional Corona (I think Corona is over priced) when I’m in Texas.
Ping
Is makin' speed up old eighty-seven
Of that hard Amarillo Highway
Too bad its from Vermont. Great stuff when you can find it.
“Niether. Bobs tastebuds are dying...”
The tase buds are still OK. Everything south of them is questionable.
I plead the 5th!
Shiner Rules!
I can’t say enough good things about Long Trail’s IPA. Their Double Bag is pretty fine, too.
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