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With the death of Schlitz I am thinking of other brands that have disappeared.
I remember my dad being a fan of Olympia.
Schmidt (imported from St Paul!) was popular among the bikers when we lived in the Twin Cities.
What other beer brands do you remember?
Falstaff
ReplyDeleteFalstaff used to brew generic Beer, white can with black letters. Had a lot of fun handing those cans to folks mooching a beer.
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ReplyDeleteBrown Derby Beer. It was a private label for Safeway grocery. Because it was a private label, Safeway contracted various regional breweries over the decades to produce it. Breweries like Humboldt Brewing, General Brewing, Pittsburgh Brewing, and Pearl Brewing produced the beer at various times.
ReplyDeleteYou could catch it on sale for 69 cents a 6 pack back on the mid
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ReplyDeleteLucky Lager and Hamms
ReplyDeleteSchaffer, Ballantine and Champale. Champale was so bad even college frat boys refused to drink it. Do they still make Gunther, ($1.99 a six pack in 1975).
ReplyDeleteMy father drank Trommer's from Brooklyn until it disappeared. I liked New Amsterdam Amber, which was an early craft beer that went broke in the 90s. You could make a case that Henry Weinhard is a zombie beer since the brewery in Portland was turned into condos and it's contract brewed.
ReplyDeleteBlatz and Carling’s Black Label come to mind.
ReplyDeleteI also remember Fallstaff, which was brewed in Omaha, and their cheaper brand Steinbrau. We sold a lot of the Steinbrau when I worked at Fareway in the 1980s as it was the cheapest beer we carried.
ReplyDeleteAccording to what I find Schmidt and Blatz still available in Minnesota although it they are contract brewed for Pabst that owns those brands now. The same is true of Hamm's, which is available primarily in tall boy 6 packs in stores here in the Austin area.
However, all these brands that Pabst owns are probably vulnerable to the same fate as Schlitz.
Down here in Texas besides PBR and the aforementioned Hamm's, the most common Pabst owned brands you see are Lone Star and Pearl, which are traditional regional brands.
-swj
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ReplyDeleteMiss Falstaff, Like Hamms but not sold in the south of Kansas. There used to be a website that kept track of where you could buy Carling'. When Schlitz was reentroduced some years back using the original recipe it was proof that most Americn beer drinkers really do not like beer. It actually had something called "flavor". Too much taste for the drinkers of bland American beer.
ReplyDeleteKohler, out of Erie, PA
ReplyDeleteUSA beer, $1 a six in 1974 come to mind.
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ReplyDeleteI remember Jax and Falstaff beers advertised on Houston TV stations when I was a kid.
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ReplyDeleteBack in the Day,,, in the "Boot!!," S/E Louisiana... New Orleans the main Metro.. it was "Falstaff, Jax and Regal!!!" also "DIXIE" which at the time was most Good Stuff!!! DIXIE at the time got some old brewmaster out of retirement who quit the business because of the "Mass prouction!!!" .. He did not like that.. DIXIE sent him a letter... they said,"We want Quality not Quantity!!' He liked it and went to work for them !!! DIXIE was Great Tasting beer... until the old man died and he did not pass on his methods!!! Dixie went to shit!! Revitalized a few years ago by the Bensons and brought back the old formula.. Good beer till they went woke and dropped the "DIXIE" from the brand..... Just like Bud Light.. Beware of your Customer base... don't mess with their "ROOTS!!!" skybill