My dad was in WWII and a big farmer in South Alabama. He always kept a small cooler either on the tractor or combine he was on with a 6 pack of Falstaff beer. As I was growing up from the 50's and 60's with my Dad. I would be in the fields with him on a different tractor. And at the end of a hot summer day my Grandpa WWI would meet us at a pond we had with his cane fishing pole and a can of worms. And he usually brought more Falstaff with him. We would park our tractors, and get under a big old live oak tree near the pond. And my Dad would look at me and say, "sport there is nothing any better than smelling fresh turned dirt, sitting under this tree and a good cold beer. Here have one with me. Just don't tell momma!" I'm 69 now and O' how I still miss thoes days and especially my Dad and Grandpa. They will always be my heroes.
Grew up on a tobacco farm in N.C..we had Kruger/ old Milwaukee sometimes, lances peanut butter nabs.....fish sandwiches, beer..and 22 acres of tobacco in 110 degree summer days..
Schlitz was even #1 ahead of Anheuser-Busch back in the 1950’s. Bad management destroyed the brand: going into the ‘70’s they skimped on ingredients (corn syrup instead of malted barley!?!) and added some chemicals to try and fake the quality - they got caught. A disastrously bad advertising campaign accelerated the declining sales and workers who hadn’t had a raise in years went on strike, killing the company.
Haha. I remember in the early 70s running around the yard at my grandparents’ house and the old folks sitting outside drinking Schlitz. I stopped and asked my grandpa for a sip. He told me I wouldn’t like it, but I wanted to try it anyway and he let me. He was right. Lol. Sometime around 2010 I was in downtown Baton Rouge and stopped and ate at a place called Schlitz & Giggles. The dough for my pizza was made with Schlitz beer. Actually wasn’t bad.
I grew up in Detroit and Stroh's was king. Remember when you could tour the brewery and get free beer at the end? I even liked Stroh's Ice Cream. The good old Bohemian style beer! Until they left and moved west. After that it was never as good. Kind of like what they say happens to Guinness when it crosses the ocean. I hated American Guinness but a friend talked me into trying it at a German pub that had it on tap. We sat there for the next couple hours drinking the stuff. Some things are just meant to be near where they were born.
Old Milwaukee.. wow..my best friend growing up.. made that beer famous.. he never was without a twelve pack..id drink one..he drinks eleven.. Dedicated he was..lost him over a year ago..61 years old.. RIP my friend.
My dad loved his Olympia brew and Lucky Strike butts. And his 59 GMC pickup with 3 on the tree and 6ft bed. He sat me on his lap and let me steer while he and my mom sang El Paso by Marty Robbins and Puff the Magic Dragon(I’m sure they had no clue what that song was about).
My dad played baseball with the Cubs club from 1942-1956. His yearly contract was the minimum $ plus bonuses AND on the road staying at team motels, he got a Steak Dinner, a Pitcher of Budweiser, a pack of Chesterfields, and any Wrigleys product, daily. Its in his contact. I have it.
My Dad was a World War II vet, and Hamm's was the only beer that he drank. Keep in mind though, he drank Hamm's in the 1940's and never bothered to try anything else. And, Minnesota was 'right next door', so he felt he was supporting a regional business, as well. However, I never saw him drink more than three beers per year.
When I met my future father-in-law Bert in 1981, who was also a World War II Navy Vet, that was when I first had Hamm's beer. I drank it for years until I couldn't find it anymore here in Florida.
I had an uncle who lived in Minneapolis and worked for Hamm's. That's the only beer he would let in his house. At least, that's the story my mother, his sister-in-law related to me. It seems he made a career with Hamm's.
There is so much junk on You Tube. This guy produces so much quality content. I'm 55 years old and I can relate to so much of his subject matter. I want to wish him every success.
When I was an underaged drinker in high school, Olympia was our preferred beer. It came in those stubby bottles. Brewed in Tumwater, Washington. Their ads featured a jingle that sang "Oly-Oly-O".
When I was younger Olympia used to sell disposable pony kegs called olly balls. 3and a half cases in a round white ball with a pump and hose. We would fill the trunk of the car with snow from the ice rink, put the olly ball in there and hit the drive inn for a double feature. Crazy times. Lol
I miss Olympia beer. My family and I would often go on the brewery tours and enjoy a couple of glasses of Oly and Oly dark on tap in the hospitality room afterwards. Really miss those days.
I remember Schmidt beer from the 1970's. Those beer cans had some of the greatest artwork from an advertising standpoint of any beer can in history. IIRC, those cans were highly collectable....Yes, beer can collections were a thing in the 70's.
Hamm's: "From the land of sky blue waters... waters... Hamm's the beer refreshing...Hamm's the beer refreshing...Hamm's." 🎶 Rainier: "Rrrrrrrrrraaaaaaneeeeeerrrrrrbeeeeeeeerrrrrrr..... " Fosters: "Fosters, Australian for beer mate"
I remember all those brands except Krueger. I expected mention of Blatz (my favorite for many years) and Schlitz, but no. I did not realize so many of those familiar names are no longer with us.
A lot of us here are coming up with a lot of left out names. I guess who ever made this video had limited knowledge and limited time. But overall it was a fun video. It brought back memories that I'd forgotten.
My uncle worked at Krueger in Newark. When they closed he moved to Pabst in Newark. Newark had many breweries because of their water which came down from Canadian style glacial lakes in North Jersey. Ballantine was another large brewery in Newark which sponsored the NY Yankees.
Ballentine beer was also popular around the New York City area. I can still remember Mel Allen hawking it between innings of NY Yankees baseball games.
@@joeyjamison5772Yup, good ol' Mel. The jingle...Make a ring and add another ring and then another ring and then you've three rings...I can still hear it.
beer history is always fun. my first beer was, my uncle asked me to get a beer from the fridge. i took a few sips befor i gave it to him. he would ask me and my cousin to get him a beer. did not ever figure out we gave him a half of a can of beer. was fun to grow up in the 50's
So funny - dad had a ‘workshop’ in the backyard and would send me to refrigerator to fetch his 7oz Rolling Rock bottles. He called them Pony Bottles. Soon I was opening them ( and tasting them)for him, and later I was getting one for me when I got his and drinking it behind the workshop. It was never more than one for me, it was quite enough. I was 11, in 1972. The beer itself was pretty good, and at 7oz, it never made it to the warm stage!
My dad drank Schaefer beer. 1960s to 80...90s? I never saw a bottle/he drank cans. I just checked and it is still around in very limited areas in the US owned by Boston Brewing Co and/or Pabst. I even saw a t-shirt I could buy in memory of my dad.
Schaefer Beer was only beer drunk in my fraternity in 60's. but when in dire straits i woild buy the ever popular "Giltedge" beer produced by GrandUnion grocery stores!!
I had some coworkers (three guys) that rented a house. They drank Lucky Lager a LOT. The flipped the bottle caps with the anagrams and "flew them" in their living room. Lots of bottle caps in that living room.
There was a brewery in downtown Vancouver, Washington whose capital "L" dominated the modest skyline. I'd comb the banks of the Columbia because people would always drink it there and toss the caps on the rocks. I'd go home with tons of them and we'd pass them around, solving them after dinner.
I didn't particularly like Lucky Lager, but it was cheap and had the rebus puzzles that were fun. I wish I had kept them! I think a 12 pack was $2.99 and $3.18 after tax
Growing up in Louisville Kentucky I remember that we had three local breweries, Ortels, Fehrs and FallsCity. I went to work at FallsCity in July or August of 65 after I got out of the Marines and stayed there until 1972 when I started getting laid off and went to work for Kroger.
Stroh's used to be widely advertised before it imploded around 2000. Schmidt's and Schaeffer used to be commonly found here in PA. I still remember the Schaeffer ad jingle, "Schaeffer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one!" My Dad used to drink either Rolling Rock (another PA brewer) or Carling Black Label.
Stroh's "fire brewed" beer had it's own unique flavor. Then Schlitz bought them and it became just another beer. Guess they saved a few pennies on making it and it disappeared thereafter. 😕
Stroh's is still available. Just not in all markets. It's made by Pabst nowadays, but still has the same design and logo. Can't say much about the taste anymore as the last one I had was in the 80's, so I couldn't tell you if it's the same or not.
I come from the beer capital of the United States….Wisconsin. My dad drank Pabst, Blatz and Old Milwaukee in the 60’s and 70’s. I remember Hamm’s ads with the bear.
I remember my Grandfather drinking Rheingold Beer in Brooklyn, New York for a while. I feel like this was circa 1975 or so. They bring it back for a season every now and again as a blast from the past. How close it is to the original recipe, I’ll likely never know.
My dad was a Rheingold/Schaffer beer guy. Had my first sip in 1955 as a 5yr old and hated the bitter taste but loved the foam. One of the few things I remember about my early youth.
When i was very young i remembered a Grainbelt delivery truck stopping at our neighbors house across the street about once every couple of weeks. Found out later that he worked at the brewery in Northeast MPLS, and they would deliver 4 cases to his house. Always wondered why he was always in a good mood.
A recent loss is Anchor Steam, which ceased after 127 years of production. A perfectly balanced beer delivering the crispness of a lager with the complexity of an ale, I will miss Anchor Steam.
When I was a kid and went with my father to the local package store, I remember voting for Miss Rheingold. I also remember liking the beautiful waterfall at the Carling Brewery on Rt 9 in Natick, MA
I was around 5 or 6, in the early 1950s in New York City. Rheingold advertised on the radio with a very catchy tune and lyrics. I learned the song by heart, and the words. One day my mother and I were out and she ran into an older lady she knew. Since I was very proud of knowing the Rheingold song, I enthusiastically sang it there, out on the street. As we walked away, my mother said to me, tersely, “It is not nice for little girls to sing songs about beer!” I always remember that. And I remember the words to this day.
2024 Bud Lite, due to it's disastrous decision to put a mincing Failed Abnormal Guy as a spokesman insulting women and AB customer base at the same time.
Bud light is just fine. No matter how much butthurt snowflakes cried and whined about AB giving a person a SINGLE CAN to a Tik tok influencer. It really says more about those mental pygmies than it does AB
I miss Lucky Lager. When I found it in California in 1993, it was an 11oz beer in a brown bottle for fairly cheap and it was good. The bottle cap had Classic Concentration like puzzles to solve when you opened it.
I remember the Rainer beer commercial: A motorcycle, traveling on a road, My Rainer in the background. The three upshifts....Raiiiiiiiin. eeeeer, beeeeeer
I have a Falstaff beer can opener hanging in my kitchen right now. It belonged to my dad. In the 1960s, I used it to open his beer. Back then, he called it a "church key." He kept it in our fishing tackle box so he would never be without a can opener. Also, when I was still in the Navy in the 1970s in Baltimore, when we were really broke, we would buy a couple of cases of Red White and Blue beer.
@jimmackay3392 I called it a church key also like every other drinker. I just didn't want to confuse the people who didn't know...I am 77. Have a great life.
The first beer that I ever snuck sips of when I was around 3 or 4 years old, was Old Milwaukee. My dad was gone from Monday -Thursday every week, working construction. Many times, a couple of his coworkers would park at our house and ride to the job with my dad. And sometimes, when they would get back to our house on Thursdays, they all would stand around and split a 6-pack with dad, before they left. And sometimes, when my mom wasn't looking, my dad would sit his bottle down where I could reach it...with just the last little bit of beer left in it. And I would pick it up and drink it. Of course, to keep appearances up, Dad would pretend to "scold me" for doing it. But I have no doubt that he intentionally sat the bottles where I could reach them. Remember, I am talking about decades ago that was a MUCH different time, (socially), than the way it is today. I remember...... ... Falstaff ... Hamm's ... Meister Brau, but didn't know it became Miller Lite. ... Olympia ... Billy Beer, but absolutely never tried it.😂
Falstaff had fabulous animated signs at their breweries. It was an enormous illuminated beer glass that “filled and emptied”, repeating endlessly. Mesmerizing….
Drank a lot of generic beer in the early 80’s. It was just a white can with the word beer on it. 5 bucks would get you two six packs and 3 gallons of gas at the 7/11.
We bought generic beer at Price Chopper in the Summer of 1978 when I was attending the GE Field Engineering Training Program. White can, nothing printed on it but BEER. There were generic cheap foods back then like macaroni and cheese. We joked that whatever fell off the assembly line at Kraft would be swept off the floor and would be put in the white generic box.
Wow ! This took me back ! I was mostly east coast back in the 70's from Florida to New Jersey . Worked in a bar and package store in late 70's and remember a lot of these brands . Near Philly there was Iron City beer, Ortleibs, Piels, Schmidt's and a host more I can't think of right now ! Billy Beer was funny . It didn't sell too well in the place I worked and the owner gave me two cases of it . Wish I'd have kept it for collector prices later on but I drank it all ! It was horrible !
My dad would have Pfeiffers for the holidays! The bottles would be scuffed up from the recycling process! LOL Nothing but the best for the guest! Miss you Dad!❤🍺
My dad (1936-2013 ) talked about how much he loved Falstaff, but I never got to try it. I did get the 70's version of Schlitz from his hand though. And I LOVED it. I still love beer. and Dad. Jax was crap according to all my old uncles back then
Here are my lost beers: 1. Horlacher. My father's beer, dry and hoppy, the beer he let me drink at home as a teen in the mid-1960's. I can still occasionally remember its taste. 2. Rheingold, with their jingle sung to the tune of Waldteufel's 'Student Waltz': My beer is Rheingold the dry beer, Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer, It's not bitter, not sweet, It's the extra-dry treat, Won't you try extra-dry Rheingold beer? 3. Packard's Class A Beer and Class Ale. Packard's was a department store in Hackensack NJ that had a liquor store. In the late 1960's early 1970's a case cost $5 or $6 dollars.
You did a great job, however I thought I would mention one other Beer that I remember drinking in Minneapolis in my 20's while attending the University of Minnesota. It was called Blatz. It was very affordable and I enjoyed it. Thank you for your video.
I would snowmobile in northern Wisconsin, and a friend always wanted to stop at an old, out of the way bar for a mug of Blatz on tap. That was the late 90s and early 2000s.
Many old brands are still around including Narragansett, Genesee, Iron City and Hudepohl (as Hudy Delight). We can lament on a lot of long, lost Midwestern beers such as Champagne Velvet, Sterling, Cook's, Leisy's, POC, Augusteiner, Wiedemann's, Burger, Erin Brew Duquesne, Falls City, Oertel's and many others. You can do two whole posts on those.
Ah yes Falstaff. My grandfather used to drink it. He would ask us to get him another one. If you were lucky it was you getting it. There was always a little left in the bottom of the can, boy did it taste good. I can still taste it. What fond memories. Miss ya grandpa.
My uncle worked at Falstaff in New Orleans. As a matter of fact they turned the building into an apartment building. The tower still stands today with the Falstaff logo still intact and illuminated. They had a large ball on top that would change colors to denote the weather forecast.
@@joshua646646 My dad was a driver-salesman at the brewery until it got sold and then worked for the Falstaff distributor, and then for the St. Louis county A-B distributor.
My parents werent really drinkers, but on the rare occasion in the late 70's , I recall my father drinking Lowenbrau. I'm pretty sure it's still around. As a teen in the 80's, we used to drink Haffenreffer. It had a Riddle under the cap, which made things fun. Of course, the drunker we got, the more difficult they were to solve. From what I recall, the Alcohol Content was quite a bit higher than we were used to. In the early to mid 90's, Bud Ice was my Go To Beer. I thought it was a decent beer, and how could you not love those commercials with the Penguin. " Drink Bud Ice, But uh, Beware the Penguins" .
You mentioned Olympia, which as my name might suggest tugged at the old heartstrings a little. But you forgot Henry Weinhard's. Henry's was *the* staple beer in our house when I was a kid in the 80s. They had a few varieties, including a dark that wasn't quite a stout but still had a nice earthy malty richness to it and an ale that didn't veer off into the hop insanity that the microbreweries that were all the rage in the 90s instigated with the glut of IPAs, but still had that hoppy bite you associate with a proper ale. Sadly, Weinhard's was bought out by Stroh's in the late 90s, and then resold to MillerCoors, who discontinued it in 2021. I cried a little over that. 😢 RIP Henry's.
In the late 1960's a New York brewery began producing a beer with no carbohydrates called Gablinger's. It quickly flopped, partly because it predated Atkins and the no-carb craze but mainly because it tasted horrible.
My dad used to drink Carling🎉 black labeled beer. I was just a kid back in the 50s but that was one of my favorite commercials. O Mabel, Black label, Carling black label beer.😊
When I was working for the electric power company in Cleveland back in the 1960s, we used to go to the Carlings brewery and show our ID to Security and then go to the worker's cafeteria. They had a soda machine there with free beer. Every button had Black Label on it and you pressed one and got free beer. There was also a soda machine with different brands in it but that cost ten cents.
Olympia beer was also in a Paul Newman film, Sometimes a Great Notion, I have heard because Paul liked it. So that was his his beer of choice for the film. A lot of the film was made around Toledo, Oregon. But the beer made the scene at a filming location done in Minnesota.
Oly also made an appearance in the Clint Eastwood movie The Eiger Sanction. It was an espionage/ rock climbing movie from 1975. I remember one part where Clint unknowingly carried a six pack to the top of a peak then George Kennedy took it out of his pack and they sat on top of this rock and drank Oly. 😊
I made a name for myself in the 6th grade drawing cartoons of the Hamms beer bear selling them for 25 cents until the teachers found out about my illicit activity and shut down the bear business for good.
Iam from Missouri and they still sale the hell out of bud light real men don't spend there time thinking about chick's with a dicks get over buddy your just giving them the attention they want dumbass
Back in the mid 60’s my parents took me along with another family to Milwaukee. We toured the Pabst Brewing plant. I remember these huge concrete vats full of product.
Born and raised in Milwaukee in the 60s, me & my buddies took the tours at Pabst, Schlitz and Miller all the time, because they always gave free beer at the end of the tour! Sadly, Schlitz and Pabst are both shut down and gone, Miller is owned by Coors now, but still brews in what we call "the valley" just west of downtown. Cheers!
I went on a tour of The Rainer Brewery. It was very interesting. At the end of the tour, they offered you a Raineer Beer or you could have a rootbeer. I took the rootbeer,as I was the one driving,at the time,
Fall City Brewing was not the only one producing Billy Beer. FX Matt in Utica, NY also brewed it along with Utica Club. That same brewery is still in operation making beers like Saranac and apparently contract brewing for a few other companies, thankfully not Bud Light however.
OH, Brew me no beer with artificial bubbles; those carbonated beers of today. For Utica Club'll still take the trouble to age beer the natural way. Utica Club- UC.
As a beerman who was taught the industry by the men who started in the beer business with the repeal of the 21st amendment I find this quite interesting and accurate.
Around 15-20 years ago I used to go to a bar in WI that always had a cheap deal on cans of Schlitz, Blatz, Pabst, Old Milwaukee, and Milwaukee's Best. Quite a lineup of classic Milwaukee beers.
My favorite all time beers are Rolling Rock and Miller High Life. Does any one remember Bach, Old Bohemian and Matts? These were the cheapest of the cheap which I drank in my college days.
My dad was a Blue Ribbon and Miller High Life guy,but he would drunk Blatz when his money was tight. Years later i was in a dive bar down south and they had Blatz on tap and it was phenomena.
i lived in the northwest and i remember Olympia beer very well, it was popular amongst middle age people because it had a cleaner taste, had to be the water. still got you pretty hammered and you didnt reek of stale beer the next morning
Any one who lived in the washington state will remember the old rainier beer commericals! They were very funny and popular? Everybody had a running of the rainier beers t-shirt, or the brews bros.. very popular and funny ads for rainier beer!
This video brought back memories. Thank you. Although many brands have disappeared from the time I was of age to drink in the late 1970s, there were certain missed favorites. Red, White & Blue, Lowenbraus and Carling's Black Label were the three I drank most because of the price while Ringes Bock was my favorite taste-wise. My father's favorite was Dinkelacker and Knickerbocker. Finally, Thanksgiving at my aunts always had Piels.
Growing up in the '60s my WWII veteran dad drowned his PTSD in cheap beer. Olympia and Hamm's were his favorite. He spent a lot of time boozing at neighborhood bars, and when they got new beers signs from the distributors he would ask for the old ones. Our garage was decorated with lighted and non-lighted signs from both these brands. I remember one sign in particular, a lighted waterfall, I think it was Olympia. It as beautiful and I wish I still had it. I didn't know that Olympia was gone from the market now.
Old Milwaukee was Steve McQueen's favorite. His Malibu home had 2 refrigerators in the kitchen. One was completely full of Old Milwaukee. I drank one. One you missed was L & M beer ("Light & Mellow") made in Los Angeles. It was a favorite with college students because it was so cheap.
At one time Old Milwaukee used to taste like Budweiser (believe it or not). They changed their normal recipe in an attempt to take away some of the Budweiser market by putting it on the shelves at a cheaper price. No doubt, once I stopped buying it they went out of business. 😏
My mother told me about a beer she use to drink called, "Old Frothinslosh," (sp?) with the tagline, "The Beer with the Foam on the Bottom." She says you could only get it around Christmas and only is some parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virgina.
The cans had a Miss Old Frothingsloth on them which consisted of a big girl in a 1 pc holding flowers, had her bio on the back, oil wrestling, ready cereal boxes etc
Stegmaier Gold Label Lager from Wilkes-Barre, PA. was great tasting and gad just a little bitterness to it that made it thirst quenching in hot humid weather. Charles Stegmaier since 1850. Great Pennsylvania Brewed beer. Now made by the Lion Brewery in Pennsylvania. They brew a fantastic Stegmaier Oktoberfest beer too. Tastes better than most German brewed Oktoberfest beers.
The two best beers ever brewed in this county were omitted - Schlitz, "Go for the Gusto" and Rheingold, "My beer is Rheingold the dry beer" - I can still sing the song!
I was fortunate enough to try a lot of beers on their last gasp. Most were cheap and surprisingly good. Loved Ballantines Ale! 1989ish Shoprite Liquors had Everything!! Some 2.65 a sixpack!