Long Gone Beer Brands

[DallasCop2566]

Back in the day when I was in my late teens the big thing was buying beer, usually going to the east side and having one of the locals that hung around beer stores buying beer for under aged drinkers getting a dollar or two for their services.

I was recalling some of the beer brands that just seemed to fade away. Falstaff, Busch Bavarian, Stag, Jax, Blatz, Texas Pride, Schlitz, Grand Prize and Progress.

Some that endured were Pabst Blue Ribbon, Miller High Life, Budweiser, Hamms, Shiner, Old Milwaukee, Lone Star, and Pearl.

When I was in the service and stationed at Fort Wolters, Texas (Mineral Wells) beer served in the Enlisted Club and N.C.O. Club were monthly contracts. A lot of Olympia and Pabst Blue Ribbon and usually one less expensive, usually Lone Star or Pearl. I remember the month I was being discharged from active duty the contract went to Knickerbocker Beer. Haven't seen it since and maybe it too faded away, I surely hope so.

They also added a "Premium Beer" and if I recall it was brewed and distributed by Pabst Brewing and was named Andecker or something close. Michelob came along much later as a competor and Andecker seemed to also fade away.

Returned to Oklahoma City for a short time after discharge and what a treat to go to Hollie's Drive In and legally buy a beer with a genuine I.D. and not worry about being caught by the police.

[MadMonk]

The Safeway brand "Scotch Buy" *shudders* or the generic, white can of "Beer". Under-age drinkers will drink just about anything.


it was a lot like Pearl, but without it's pretension and glamour.

[bradh]

Schlitz is still around. I used to date a girl who lived in Corpus whose dad drank nothing but Schaefer's

Is Lowenbrau still around? I remember they use to sponsor a major IMSA racing team when I was a kid.

[Stew]

Schlitz is still around. I used to date a girl who lived in Corpus whose dad drank nothing but Schaefer's

Is Lowenbrau still around? I remember they use to sponsor a major IMSA racing team when I was a kid.

Lowenbrau is widely available Germany.

[Jersey Boss]

Back in the day when I was in my late teens the big thing was buying beer, usually going to the east side and having one of the locals that hung around beer stores buying beer for under aged drinkers getting a dollar or two for their services.

I was recalling some of the beer brands that just seemed to fade away. Falstaff, Busch Bavarian, Stag, Jax, Blatz, Texas Pride, Schlitz, Grand Prize and Progress.

Some that endured were Pabst Blue Ribbon, Miller High Life, Budweiser, Hamms, Shiner, Old Milwaukee, Lone Star, and Pearl.

When I was in the service and stationed at Fort Wolters, Texas (Mineral Wells) beer served in the Enlisted Club and N.C.O. Club were monthly contracts. A lot of Olympia and Pabst Blue Ribbon and usually one less expensive, usually Lone Star or Pearl. I remember the month I was being discharged from active duty the contract went to Knickerbocker Beer. Haven't seen it since and maybe it too faded away, I surely hope so.

They also added a "Premium Beer" and if I recall it was brewed and distributed by Pabst Brewing and was named Andecker or something close. Michelob came along much later as a competor and Andecker seemed to also fade away.

Returned to Oklahoma City for a short time after discharge and what a treat to go to Hollie's Drive In and legally buy a beer with a genuine I.D. and not worry about being caught by the police.

I can tell by your post that you are most likely in your 70's or better. What caught my eye was your mention of Knickerbocker beer. My father used to drink this, but by the time I was enjoying my first Rheingold in either 70 or 71 Knickerbocker was not available. It is a shame that the big boys decimated regional beers.

[rezman]

Don't know if they're still around or not, but we drank more than our share of Little Kings cream ale, and Mickey's malt liquor. Stroh's was good too.

[Jersey Boss]

Schlitz is still around. I used to date a girl who lived in Corpus whose dad drank nothing but Schaefer's

Is Lowenbrau still around? I remember they use to sponsor a major IMSA racing team when I was a kid.

Schaefer "the one beer to have when you're having more than one", was a popular beer in the NY area but the company was eventually sold to another brewer sometime in the 70's I believe. Like Rolling Rock, what was once an independent brew became something other than its original self.

[OKCRT]

Busch Bavarian Beer is still wildly popular at St. Louis sporting events. It's actually pretty darn good for a domestic beer. Now the watered down stuff from the conv. store in Ok might be another thing. I think Stag is still around but that was never one I would fancy. Schlitz is a Milwaukee brewed beer as well as Fallstaff and I believe both are still around.

Pearl was pretty nasty stuff IMO as was Olympia.

[ljbab728]

Oklahoma City's Progress Brewing Company.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.4723...ZOjPbnnmDw!2e0

[bradh]

Busch Bavarian Beer is still wildly popular at St. Louis sporting events. It's actually pretty darn good for a domestic beer. Now the watered down stuff from the conv. store in Ok might be another thing. I think Stag is still around but that was never one I would fancy. Schlitz is a Milwaukee brewed beer as well as Fallstaff and I believe both are still around.

Pearl was pretty nasty stuff IMO as was Olympia.

anything Busch is popular in Missouri. it blows my mind, it's EVERYWHERE there. all types of Busch beer too

[traxx]

[B]Back in the day when I was in my late teens the big thing was buying beer, usually going to the east side and having one of the locals that hung around beer stores buying beer for under aged drinkers getting a dollar or two for their services.

Did you grow up in American Graffitti?

[RadicalModerate]

The Safeway brand "Scotch Buy" *shudders* or the generic, white can of "Beer". Under-age drinkers will drink just about anything.


it was a lot like Pearl, but without it's pretension and glamour.

I'm surprised that Truth in Labeling Laws didn't make them print SWILL on the can.

"Say, Ray . . . Whatcha drinkin' there?"
"It's Scotch Buy's tasty, yet affordable alternative to beer, Bob. They call it Swill."
"I've heard that Swill is Swell . . ."
"I wouldn't go that far, Bob."

[RealJimbo]

Oh, the memories of Hollie's! Rosie would see me pull into a parking space and didn't even wait to be asked. She'd punch the top on a Coors and bring it to my car before the key was turned off.

[ctchandler]

Oh, the memories of Hollie's! Rosie would see me pull into a parking space and didn't even wait to be asked. She'd punch the top on a Coors and bring it to my car before the key was turned off.

RealJimbo,
Don't know why, but I/we drank Falstaff at Hollie's. I had my first beer there at age 14+. My friend worked with me at Humpty Dumpty's and was 16. He had a car and we would go to Hollie's after we got off work at 9 p.m.
C. T.

[OKCRT]

Hollies actually made a pretty good cheeseburger back in the day. I think every teenager in OKC back then knew that Hollies was the place to go for a six pack.

[ctchandler]

Hollies actually made a pretty good cheeseburger back in the day. I think every teenager in OKC back then knew that Hollies was the place to go for a six pack.

OKCRT,
I was young, so any cheeseburger was a good cheeseburger. Off topic a little, nobody ever mentions Carp's drive-in. Do you remember them? I think they were on Northwest 23rd but not sure of that.
C. T.

[Prunepicker]

Lone Star used to be near NW 4th and N Western. I think the League for the Blind took
over the building.

[ljbab728]

Lone Star used to be near NW 4th and N Western. I think the League for the Blind took
over the building.

Please see my post number 9. Lone Star took over that location on North Douglas from Progress Beer.

[stick47]

Always liked the Jax beer commercials.

[Urbanized]

McNellie's has Schlitz. Unfortunately I had one there a while back.

[RadicalModerate]

When I was a kid, all my friends were all into Coors. (it was brewed down the road).
I was more into Schlitz. They were selling Schlitz over at Sam's Libationary on 63rd St.
I thought I'd get a case for the sake of nostalgia. I didn't: All of the cases were at least a year past the expiration date.
(yes: beer DOES have use by dates).

When we used to go to 89er games I always drank Stroh's from that icy bucket that dude used to push around.
I still remember really liking it. But that was a couple of decades back.

Old Milwaukee (The "OM" of Beer) was my absolute favorite lawnmowing beer for years.
Unfortunately, the local distributors turned it into a "long gone beer"--at least locally.

[rezman]

There used to be a brewery out in Hinton. I think it was Lone Star or Falsaff... I remember touring the place with my dad. At the end of the tour, the grown ups got a free cold beer and us kids got rootbeer.

[Prunepicker]

When we used to go to 89er games I always drank Stroh's from that icy bucket
that dude used to push around.

The guy was Adam.

[Prunepicker]

Always liked the Jax beer commercials.

Bob Thomas, a WKY-TV weatherman in the 60's, would get cracked up over
the commercials.

[stick47]

The guy was Adam.

Adam Walker, Prune. I knew him from his trading at the Otasco I worked at in the 70s. He told me he had 26 kids. I never confirmed it but have my suspicions being that he was pretty much of a character.