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snipe, your story brought a tear to my eyes, for I know what it's like to lose a good beer. When I was working I could afford the finest and only drank PBR. Right after I retired, they raised the price and I could no londer afford the finer things and had to go with a cheaper brand. If there was a way I could get some Schlitze up there to you, I would do it.
Dave
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Milt Famey was a pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. He often would walk into the runway between innings and have quick Schlitz or two. In one game, he was pitching during the tenth inning with the score tied. By now, he was almost 6 sheets to the wind and had to pee reeeeal bad. The opposing team got two men on base, and Milt, could not control the ball. He walked the next two batters and the winning run.
After the game, when the opposition was asked how they were able to force those two walks the manager said, and I quote:
"Its the beer that made Milt Famey walk us"
jed
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Snipe
A question:
Does this mean that you are Schlitz out of luck?
(sorry, I couldn't help my self)
Brad
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Well now, speaking of lost beers...are the following still in business:
Black Label (get your leg off the table Mable that 2 bucks is for beer)
Smitz (or something like that...a Philly beer) Sponsor of the Philadelphia Philly's TV broadcasts way back then.
Blatz of Milwaukee.
Rhinelander Beer - it came in the little shorty bottles.
etc.
When I go to the local "Likker" Store I never cease to be amazed at the total of varied labels. Fat Tire (now who would've thunk that something named that could make a hit in the market?). And all the rest of the silly names...hah!
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LOL!!!
In VietNam, we got Bud or Schlitz....call me nuts, but I LOVED Schlitz! It sure beat the H out of Crown & OB...I'll bet if Leo's reading this that he'll remember those 2 gutbusters! Talk about "panther p**s"!!
My Dad used to drink Red Cap Ale & Old Frothingslosh ("The beer with the foam on the bottom" was their ad).
Memories & a lot of laughs!...Thanks to ALL who posted.
Mike
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Silvertop--that philly beet was Schmidts, affectionately known as schuykill punch to my coal mining ancestors...
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You folks are making me reach for the cryin' towel again! Thanks, everyone for responding. Silvertop2...who's the "powers that be" anyhow and why did they do this to us? Enough to make me angry but I'll stay off beer til I can get ahold of something bettern we have around here now. We old goats have plenty to carp about without having our beer taken away from us. We're improving our streams, having fishing seminars and otherwise doing something about our problems.
This was a beer makin' and drinking town and now its gone to hellin a handbasket. Brewed beer right thru prohibition with the best distribution system in the country. (We brewed the beer on the edge of town and gravity fed it through tubes in the storm sewers right into the speakeasys). No No there was nothing unsanitary about it. They ran the beer tubes coaxially with the storm sewers. I don't know how they kept track of what joint got this much and what joint got that but I envision a water meter set up for the purpose. Think of that! no bottles no delivery trucks and the underground tubes were kept at a proper temperature.
This used to be a great town and a river runs through it! We had over forty hotels...and by golly three of them were actually respectable! We made the best fire trucks in the world, Willys cars' bicycles, typewriters, and yes, the first commertial computer in the world...No not IBM, they made those clunkers in the next town to the east. We made the Univac, the most reliable in its day and the first on the market. IBM had beautiful sales materials and a bunch of hot-shot salesmen but no computer. Those guys sold computers they didn't even have yet. Univac had computers but little in the line of sales people or materials.
Our city population is scarcely half of what it was in its hey day! There's little in the line of real production...the manufacturing diaspora has already taken place! "The powers that be" have seen to that but we have a river that is already cleaned up and the fishin' can be good! In so far as the business and manufacturing goes, we're ready to go again! This time we are going to be a business and manufacturing incubation area. The "powers that be" don't know it yet...they never do until some local looney gets something started then they're ready to jump aboard in order not to be left behind.
So, you captains of American business and industry, you hard workin, hard drinkin, and hard fightin' bunch of left behind bastards, get off your duffs, put on your thinkin' caps and get to work. You can fish on your days off!
Did I say that? Sorry, didn't mean to offend anyone.
Ol' Bill
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I see hope for America, all across the country brewries are opening, and they are producing "Real Beer"! Not this Low-Carb, watered down stuff, that has no taste, and is best described as "Club Soda" gone bad.
This is real beer, with real flavor, so called Micro Brewries will be the saving grace for what made America Great! A great brew to enjoy after a hard day of work, or to enjoy at the end of a perfect day for fishing!
Some excellent brewries I really enjoy
Shiner Brewry, Shiner Texas
They have a Golden Pilsner, that rival the German Beers.
Big Sky Brewry, Missoula Montana
They specialize in Ales, they have a wide assortment of Ale, and seasonal Ales.
Lienenkugel, Chippewa Fall Wisconsin
Real Lager Beer, wide assortment of brews, my favorite is their Dopplebock (Double Bock).
Summit Brewry, Saint Paul Minnesota
Good assortment of Ales.
Anyone want to add to the list?
~Parnelli
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Yup.
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