Re: beer
  By: Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on Sun Feb 17 2013 10:19 am

JM>   Not so many years ago national beers were almost unknown.  Most towns of
JM> any size had their own brewery.
JM>   Here we had a large one.  Forget the name.  They went out of business in
JM> the mid 60s and the old site is now a shopping center.  They were in
JM> business from the late 1800's, except for Prohibition.


I mourn the lack of bad beers. :)  When I was in college in the late 80s, there
was a variety of cheap, watery beers that were perfect for the college life
style. Brown Derby, Schaefer's, Red White and Blue, Carling Black Label,
Heidelberg, Schmidt, and others were around $3.00 a 12-pack, and there was a
variety of inexpensive nationwide beers - all a tier or two below the
coors/bud/miller tier.


Most of those names were old local beers with histories that have gone away,
although most of the names are still held by larger breweries in case they want
to re-introduce them.
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