Beverages and Blades - Traditional of Course

JB in SC said:
I drank many a PBR in my youth. I don't think I've had one since 1975.
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I drank Schlitz in my youth. Same colors as my high school.
I miss the old Detroit brands. Pfeiffer (I think), Goebel for sure, Stroh's, and Old Milwaukee. I will add a pic of my can-opener featuring "Brewster, the Goebel Rooster". [Sorry; Brewster the rooster was "the Goebel booster".]
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Pabst:
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Knife content: unmarked, maybe Imperial?
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Soz chaps for the late acknowlegment spent most of yesterday at a hospital appointment :rolleyes:
After which I went the pub and had a couple of pints of Sharp's Brewery Sea Fury 5%. A nice pint :thumbsup:

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scrteened porch said:
Thanks.
The orange one is Swiss, with twin screws. I never remember to try it. I haven't actually used the big vine-handled one either. I bought that because my parents had one like it given to them by a French chum who was awarded the Legion d'Honeur for his work in the resistance in WWII.
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What a great way to remember a genuine hero :thumbsup::thumbsup:

meako said:
Herding cats:D:D:D.
I know excactly what you mean.
I drove a minibus containing the enthusiasts from The Illawarra Brewing Company from North Wollongong to the Homebush Bay showgrounds in Sydney a couple of weeks ago. GABS Great Australian Beer Spectacular. They were half cut by the time we arrived and then went about sampling the weird n wonderful array of beers.
By the end of the session it was fairly messy. I managed to herd the cats back on the bus .In addition we now had a couple of kids that belonged to the group:eek:o_O and a drunken Scotsman from Bulli that no body seemed to know but had been offered a lift home in an act of misguided bonhomie by one of the other passengers.
Not even halfway home I was requested to stop the bus so this guy could be jettisoned.
He was completely maggoted and the conversation had been getting inappropriate with kids on board. He was also groping one of the women uninvited. At one point he decided he needed the toilet and openef the door while we were waiting at the traffic lights and got out.From then on he was being 'told' where he was going and how.
To the railway station.He wanted to fight me.A couple of the guys manhandled him out of the bus.He wanted to fight them.
He was not of this world.
I havent lost my temper for a long time but this guy was McPeanutbrain.I was mcready to get mcout and mcgive him a mcthickear.
He vanished into the train station.Next stop the bottle shop for more supplies on the long haul back to the gong.
Rule 1 no stowaways.
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Crikey Meako! Sounds like you had a bit of an "adventure" :rolleyes:
To people who don't genuinely appreciate beer I think a lot of people don't understand what beer festivals are about. There about sampling some great ale in the company of like-minded people. For someone like me whose not drank to get drunk for over 20 years a decent beer festival or pub is about the atmosphere and the beer; and it's difficult being in the company of people who don't share that. :rolleyes::(

meako said:
Thats a 4 day drive away...he would have still been drunk and surly when got there.
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Heres the Bexfield atop a pint of John Smiths Owd Washing up Watter.
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Thanks for posting that Meako! A good looking knife :thumbsup: Handle profile seems similar to a...bunny knife...?
Btw, it's funny to hear Sam Smith's now has a global reputation for pants beer.... :D
 
scrteened porch said:
I drank Schlitz in my youth. Same colors as my high school.
I miss the old Detroit brands. Pfeiffer (I think), Goebel for sure, Stroh's, and Old Milwaukee. I will add a pic of my can-opener featuring "Brewster, the Goebel Rooster". [Sorry; Brewster the rooster was "the Goebel booster".]
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As a young man, I also drank my share of PBR and Schlitz, but I was more likely to buy fire-brewed Stroh's ("From one beer lover to another - Stroh's) in those days. And now I see it's back in stores again after disappearing for quite a few years, I think.

Jer, FWIW, I also remember Brewster, the Goebel Rooster, and NOT the Goebel Booster as inscribed on your opener. I think he may have been a Bantam rooster, too, and one of the Goebel marketing strategies was 7-oz bantam-sized cans. (I recall that Goebel used to be a sponsor of Detroit Tiger broadcasts on the radio.)

But this is what I drank with dinner last night:
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"Booster" could easily be a typo, I suppose. Those openers were given away free.
I think Stroh's was sold to somebody in Milwaukee in the '90s. Meijer's stopped carrying them and I wasn't interested in going looking for another Milwaukee beer, so I don't know if they actually disappeared.
A Consumers Reports panel of brew-masters declared Old Milwaukee and Stroh's to be the best and second best "mass market beers" in the country a few years before the sell-out. They were what I was drinking in those days.
 
Donn
I certainly prefer the driving groups of ladies to wineries in the Shoalhaven region to the south.Much more pleasant surroundings.
There were a lot of strange unique to the day beers .Most people were tasting small pony glasses (actually plastic yuk) on boards like a paddle. There were a couple of lame sideshows that barely raised a glance from a barn full of aussies on a mission.
With the alcohol content of average beer hovering around 4.8% a lot of these craft brews were up around 8%.. warning warning.
Some cranked up to 11 and 12% with one on the menu from South Australia ,a barley wine, a whopping 20.2 %!!
Too bad I was driving I wou ld have liked to try some and they did nt do takeaways.
 
JB in SC said:
I drank many a PBR in my youth. I don't think I've had one since 1975.
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I BUY it a lot to keep at my cottage as it is $14 for 30 cans just across the border (I am in Canada), but I don’t DRINK a lot of it. Most of it goes to my freeloading neighbours while I sneak IPAs. ;)

I don’t mind it though as it isn’t terrible when super cold.

Strangely, In my neck of the woods, PBR is a hipster staple.:rolleyes:
 
So let me get this straight..
Brewster the Rooster was the Goebbels Booster ?
 
In the great Southern Land we have never had time for such silly beer marketing gimmicks as roosters ...it pretty much sells itself as this will attest. Aaaaah the 70s and 80s when a wife would lovingly pour a beer for hubbo and gaze longingly and impressed as he guzzled it down and wiped tbe froth from his huge moustache burping loudly.
 
Speaking of countries that are 20 years behind the times
..anyone heard from Duncan @Campbellclansman lately
Maybe the whole population has been drafted as extras in the latest installment of Tolkein movies.
 
meako said:
Speaking of countries that are 20 years behind the times
..anyone heard from Duncan @Campbellclansman lately
Maybe the whole population has been drafted as extras in the latest installment of Tolkein movies.
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Nearly fell off my chair there! :D :thumbsup:
 
A.L. said:
Wasn’t PBR kind of hipster beer back in the day when the hipster movement began (as in when it wasn’t slur or ironic term)?
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I saw a few of the younger crowd not too long ago holding PBR's like they were a badge of honor. One particular Holiday Inn in Alabama stocked it for a few regulars quite a few years ago. That was the first I'd seen in many years.
 
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