Beers from long ago

[monkeyboy]

Always sponsored sport in the area.

What did you have locally?

 

[Art 1]

I remember Schaefer. We had Esquire and Stoney's. The brewery is owned by Shirley Jones and family.

 

[GeorgeG]

Schaefer was big in my area back when (NYC and suburbs). I didn't care for it, but one band I used to work with up there used their jingle as a break song, kicked up a few notches, of course.

Others were Rheingold and Schlitz. I think Schlitz was what I drank most. Piels and Balentine Ale were pretty popular, too.

 

[Grandmouse]

Ballentine, founded in Newark, NJ in 1840. My grandfather worked for them.

 

[airhead]

knickabocker (sp?)

 

[Sugardimples]

From Philadelphia -

Schmidt's (Schmidt's will ring a bell for ya, Schmidlt's of Philadelphia, one beautiful beer!)

Ortlieb's

Piels (Bert and Harry)

 

[LIDisneyFan]

My beer is Reingold the dry beer.............

 

[jen0610]

I can sort of remember the brew-haha that went one when they closed the Ft Wayne plant.

I really remember when the city bought the facilities and cleaned them out. A lot of collectors got some pretty good hauls.

 

[MissUndastood]

Pabst Colt 45

 

[swanmom]

I even remember the jingle -

"Schaefer...is the...one beer to have,
When you're having more than one!"

 

[tvguy]

Pabst Colt 45

Colt 45 is still around. There is a distributor right behind where I work. They also distribute Olympia.
They have a huge sign painted on the side of the building "Burgermeister...have a cold Burie today"....now THAT is a beer from the past.

 

[FredinFL]

Remember Champale? Was that a beer?

 

[parrothead365]

Genesee Baby

 

[JessicaR]

This is what my Grandpa drank on the front lawn under the oak tree.