Remember the Coors mystique?

Remember when you could only get Coors in the western states? Remember when you traveled out west you would bring back a case of Coors? Remember when everyone would come flocking to you when they found out you had Coors? Remember how disappointed they were when they tried it and it tasted like light beer?

 

I remember driving across the border to Colorado to get Coors, and thinking, "Geez I could of driven less miles..gone to Texas and got some Pearl"

 

Collecting beer cans was popular in the 70s. Not sure if people are still into that.

Another flashback: "I sure miss my Genny."

"You wanna take away my Schlitz?!"

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Yeah, we could have got in texas 2 counties away, but it cost a couple of bucks a case more than anything else.

 

Another one was Iron City Beer, which you could only get around Pittsburgh. With a name like Iron City you'd expect it to have some body to it, but that shit is as weak as Coors!

 

ahah I have a good friend who lives in Pitt and everytime I visit her we drink I.C. light. Good 'ole Iron City!

 

I grew up in New England, surrounded by local brews like Narragansett, Ballantine, Rheingold, Knickerbocker and Schaefer. They're all gone now, driven out of business by the likes of Bud, Miller and of course Coors! Damn corporations!

 

I think ballantine may still be around. I used to be able to find it occassionally at our local brew emporium. This was 5 or 6 years ago, so they may very well be dead by now.

 

Shaefer is alive and well in the Northwest.

 

When I was back in New England in '93 they still had Ballantine Ale but not Ballantine Beer, but during my most recent visit in '04 the Ale was gone as well.

Where? I live in the Northwest now and haven't seen any Schaefer!

 

No, it was regular Iron City. Pretty weak compared to Bud or Miller. Never heard of Old Frogsplash.

Hey Texans, is Lone Star Beer still around?

 

We have some excellent local brews now.

Geary's, Gritty McDuff's, Shipyard, Seadog, Allagash, to name a few.

Maine has some very excellent variety in particular.

 

Lone Star IS still around..

 

kicking hippies asses and drinking lone star beer...hey shamless good to see you're still breathing

 

A fellow New Englandah, huh? I'll be sure to try some of those next time I'm in town. I live in Pawtland, Oregawn now, where we have Olympia Beer.

I drank it sometimes when I lived in Phoenix. Remember the jingle, "We got no LONE STAR BEER! We got no LONE STAR BEER!"

 

Hi;
Well we used to drive from the Midwest out to Colorado and come back with trunkloads of Coors. The stuff sold like hotcakes! There really was something special there....The best beer I ever had in my life were three cans of Coors I hiked up a mountain one time.
So a few years later when Coors came to be distributed nationally I went downtown and picked up a six pack of Coors. I popped the can and took my first sip.... "WHATHFUG!!!!" It was just normal ole light beer! Nothing special there at all! The pre national Coors was WAY BETTER! Everyone was saying this. I suspect it is the same old story of a company sparing no expense on the product when they are building up their name, then cutting the quality when they hit the big time. I wonder if there are any old brewery workers out there who could weigh in on this?
Now I developed a massive drinking problem in the '80s and had to quit for a while. These days I will drink a sensible amount every now and again (So there you whacko AA fanatics!) and have still not found anything to compare with prenat Coors. A Dos Equis green with a squeeze of lime comes close.
Tundrahopper

 

I once bought a six-pack of World's Fair '82 beer at a collectibles shop in Knoxville. I drank the whole thing. To everyone else, I advise against it.

I used to have a six-pack of Billy Beer, but I lost it when I moved three years ago.

Before I stopped drinking earlier this year, my favorite was Cantina. It's made by the same company that makes Corona. I can only find it at one store in my area: a Food Lion in Seviervile. And now they are carrying less and less of it. I miss drinking it.