20 Forgotten Beers From The 1960s, We Want Back! 

still can buy Hamms in West Virginia

Loved those hamms bear toons as a kid in 70s. I had one of those light up hamms signs in my room for years til it got lost in a couple of moves. Still available in my town.

Here in Michigan also.

Hamms is available in Pittsburgh, PA so it must be making a comeback. I love that it is just as good as some of the national brands and only costs $16 for a 30/pk. It is great on a hot day

You can purchase Hamm’s in Nebraska as well.

The Hamms Bear gets mentioned in that old David Frizell tune, I’m Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home.

Hamm's had the greatest beer too. 🍺

Last I heard Miller bought them out then they disappeared. Light and dark were a top notch brew in the ‘70’s

@terryjames548 thanks! 💖

Dark was delicious. I want a sixxer now!!!

"Let it be Lowenbrau"

The real Lowenbrau is made in Germany. I think they may have licensed the name to Miller or something, but it could never compare to the real German import.

Called growlers now

Hudepol was great for the money.

69¢ a quart at The Plaid Pantry in Milwaukie.

I came here to say that...

With the accent on “gan”

Thank you 🎉

Drove me nuts he was saying it wrong I kept yelling your saying it wrong 😂

technically it is known as nastygansett, but whatever...

My family owes its success to the Greisedieck Brothers. My grandparents were immigrants from Italy He was working in the coal mines of south central Illinois and he noticed that the miners would always stop for a shot and a beer before and after work for fifteen cents. He was shoveling coal 10 hours a day six days a week for less than 40 dollars a week. So he and a friend turned an old miners "shotgun house" into a bar and had it put on a flatbed wagon and hauled to a downtown lot. His partner left and by now grandfather had two boys and was walking from a house near the mine where he once worked to and from town that was three miles away. He decided to go to the Greisedieck Brothers for a loan to build a tavern with a three bedroom home on the top. In return he would agree to sell only their products until the loan was paid off. This was sometime before WWI and by 1921 he had three boys and had made enough money to take a 2nd class cabin on the Olympic, the only surviving sister ship of the Titanic, to Italy so his relatives could see how prosperous he was. When prohibition started he opened up a clothing store but had a speakeasy in the basement. A street wise customer would come in and ask for something in a size 42 men's suit, They were on the clothes rack that hid the basement door. He made enough money from that tavern to not only pay off the mortgage but put my father and two uncles through college during the Depression. My Dad became doctor, my uncle Leo an insurance executive, and my Uncle Jim a Lt. Colonel in the Air Force Reserve and a mortician. All of the five of the 6 grandkids have college degrees as do all of their great grandchildren. My grandparents operated the tavern from 1913 or so until his death in 1963 when my grandmother rented out the bar while still living in the apartment until her death in 1977 at the age of 93. The bar and grill is still in business and it is owned by a high schoo classmate of mine who proudly features a picture of my grandparents behind the bar serving my great- grandfather and some customers on the morning that prohibition ended. The bar and grill is called 'Lumpys" and is in Gillespie IL.

I have a large cooler from griesedieck. It belonged to my uncle, who was a traveling vaudeville performer. He said most of the entertainers drank a lot of the time. I was too young to ever try it, but he said it was the best, especially if he could not get whisky.

I loved that Ballentine Ale. Even though i drank Schlitz back then.(60s & 70s).

Falstaff was my father's favorite beer, until they stopped making it & switched to Michelob. 🍺

My dad worked for the Falstaff brewery in St. Louis, they didn't give away free cases of beer to the public.

I remember Stoney's beer brewed in Pittsburgh

@@bridgetmccracken1381 Stoney's was ok. I thought Duke was better. Just my opinion.

@@Tomatohater64 I liked the jingle and actual song for Stoney's lol. Bet I have a beer you never heard of...Indian Beer brewed in Indiana, PA

@@bridgetmccracken1381 You're right; never heard of it.

have a duke , have a duke , have a duquesne beer !

Yep.....all our high school parties were half barrels of Schaefer cause it was dirt cheap.

I remember grainbelt because when they went out of business the local distributor bought 6 railcars of it .we could get a 6 pack for. 69 cents or a case for $2.69 all of us teenagers had a great summer 1978.

I've never found a beer I liked better than Black Label

You're making my mouth water.

​@@larry3064 black label is pretty good beer

Touborg Gold.

Rolling Rock was great beer.

​@@dew02300still is!❤

@@dew02300 Still available. No longer brewed in Latrobe, PA but by A-B InBev in New Jersey.

@@pb68slab18 I know. But all it is now is a name on a bottle, or I should say can. I don’t think they have bottles anymore.

@@dew02300 They still have 12oz longnecks, and 7oz 'Pony' bottles too. A case of 24 12oz bottles is $5 more than 30pak of 12oz or 24pak of 16oz cans though.

Great beer back when OLYMPIA BREWED IT THEMSELVES! IT'S THE WATER ..

​​@@richarddouglas1712Tumwater, Washington!! Evel Kinevel used to pound Oly at the Freeway Tavern in Butte, Montana!

Remember the eighth of a keg called an Olyball??

We had Pearl here

Beer used to be more popular in the past, period . It used to be seen as a reward . Now its seen as a crutch by many people .

It's still available in Virginia, not in many places, though.

They need to learn to pronounce it correctly. NarraGANsett, not NaRRAgansett

As I mentioned above, Rolling Rock is still out there. It's now owned by A-B and brewed in NJ. Funny, InBev bought R-R, then sold it to A-B, then InBev bought A-B!

How about Lone star beer of texas??? And colt 45 beer

@@josephcontreras8930 If I remember correctly, Lone Star is also now owned by Pabst. Growing up in SE Texas in the late 1960s, early 1970s, Lone Star was one of the low priced beer sold. I don't think it really took off until "Lone Star Beer & Bob Wills Music" was released around 1976. If you look up Lone Star Beer, you will see it was originally founded by Adolphus Busch. It is now owned by Pabst and produced by the Miller Brewing Company in Fort Worth.

​@@josephcontreras8930Colt 45 called itself a malt liquor.

Any one recall "Old Shale Ale" ?

She must have been a real hottie!

There was a Rhinegold truck in "The Godfather".

@@RBAILEY57 Interesting. Haven't seen that movie in a long time. I'll be able to spot the Rheingold truck immediately next time I watch. My grandparents had a room dedicated to my grandma's modeling work and there was a crapload of Rheingold stuff in there.

It's in the scene where Sonny beats up Carlo. It's a hot afternoon, and there are kids playing around an open fire hydrant.

I like the golden cream ale

Is Moosehead still in business?

Anchor was popular in Asia back in the 90s.

@@MuzixMaker Two different beers and breweries.

Andeker and Erlanger were delicious. One of the first beers I had when I was underage.

Huedepohl and Burger were big in the Natty

We used to drink the hell out of little kings when I was young I wish they still made it

Actually, it was Heilemann that bought them all up using junk bonds. Pabst swept them all up when Heilemann collapsed.

Didn't Hudepohl also make Burger Beer for a while? That was a good one!

​@@jvsmith7888 It's possible, I just don't remember that one.

PBR Extra is 6.5%.

That's why they have malt liquor, son

A lot of beer is 3.2, or used to be. Canadian beer I always found better, for the most part, anyway.

Yes at least😅😅😅

I'm surprised they aren't putting female hormones in it now lol!!

Black Label is my favorite

Yep, Carling Black Label. When my family moved into our new house back in 1977, it had a huge gameroom next to the basement. In the gameroom, there was a huge rotating, illuminated sign of Carling Black Label beer. Maybe two feet high by four feet long. I loved it.

lone star beer is still around and very popular in Texas

I remember the "stubby" bottles. When talking with your hands you didn't have to worry about knocking them over like today's long necks!

I drank a lot of Schmidt's and Genesee beer in the 70's as a poor college kid. I'd have to be pretty desperate to drink Piels though!

The beet that made Latrobe famous

Rheingold for us Mets fans, remember?!😄

My dad worked for the Falstaff brewery in St. Louis.

My brother in law loved it . Forgot about the.

There's one store local to me in Maryland that still has it

I used to work for a Beer distributor, I remember when Pete's went away. It hasn't been that long.

Yes

Are you from Pittsburgh?

@@ThomasComiskey-uz4ie no West Virginia 🤗 little town called Webster Springs

@@sherryaleshire9187 Thank you , you also spelled frothinsloch much better than I did on another post . When you had Iron City I thought you were from Pittsburgh.

@@sherryaleshire9187 I am on the West Virginia ,Pa border a very short distance from Morgantown.

@ThomasComiskey-uz4ie dad went to Pittsburgh to get most of what he sold .Some was delivered. I used to have 2 cans of each unopened got married and my mom ACCIDENTALLY 🤨😆 threw them away .Some were pony bottles . I started helping load our truck when I was 6 . Still hear the cans clang when ya threw another case on top 😁 GOOD days with Dad and his buddy's SITIN on palets drinking while I worked 💪 😊

It was good for the price, though.

Coors owns them now.

Here in Michigan at select party stores!

Lucky was better than either, plus you got the 'sobriety test' bottle caps.

Yup. That and our nation stopped prosecuting anti-trust law.

@@floydblandston108 Only for campaign contributors.

@@scottsatterthwaite4073 - Don't forget Augie Busch.

That is very true ! They acted like they were saving the breweries that they bought! All of them went out of business!, OLYMPIA BEING ONE !