Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] Re: Fat stupid citizens/Pabst
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 13:54:39 -0400
To:        <lpny_discuss@yahoogroups.com>
From:     Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 08:38:25 -0400, Jacob Rieper wrote:
>=A0I drank my share of cheap beer in college. =A0Swill like Meister=
 Chow, Cook's
>=A0Golden Anniversary, PBR, Hamms, Genny Light, etc are all=
 watery
>=A0beers. =A0Made of less than the highest quality ingredients, and=
 not brewed
>=A0for a long period of time, they taste flat going down and tend=
 to leave a
>=A0bad aftertaste.

 I grew up in suburban Chicago , did my freshman years at 3.2=
 beer capital
 Miami of Ohio north of Cincinatti(sp) , commuted weekends to=
 rock climb
 Devil's Lake , WI thru years at Northwestern U , and a few years=
 in
 Rochester where the Genesee brewery has one of the best views of=
 the
 river's falls .

 So I grew up to adds for Peter Hand's Meister Braw and shaggy=
 dog stories
 about "Pap's Blue Ribbon"  , Hamm's from the land of sky blue=
 waters , 
 clear bottled Miller's High Life "the champagne of bottled beer"=
 . 

 Back then these were separate brews from separate brewers - not=
 mega-merged
 like cars or media . Blatz was particularly flavorful ; I didn't=
 like it
 then , but think I would now .  

 Miller's was alway watery light .  Yet they are one of the=
 survivors .
 Like Coors -- which I am embarrassed to say I collaborated in=
 bringing back
 cases of from climbing trips to Colorado .

 My eyes were open to great beer at Paisano's in Madison - a stop=
 on the
 Sunday night way homeward fatigued from climbing . They had=
 Lowenbrau ,
 both light , and this dark stuff(!) by the pitcher . And this=
 was years
 before they made a deal to be brewed locally "for the American=
 taste" .
 A few years later , at the Spaghetti Factory in Denver , SF's=
 Anchor Steam
 opened my awareness to the possibility of a great American beer=
 .

 Now , for me , the ultimate in relaxation is an imperial=
 Guinness and a
 maduro cigar . 


 But back the to dark side :  The worst beer is Chief Oshkosh . 
 One weekend , we got an 8 pack for perhaps a buck thirty . We=
 could
 not finish it .

 Runner up ( down ? ) is Wiedemann's from around Cincy . They had=
 such
 great ads of a guy BBQing a steak - and the hand he was holding=
 it with -
 that I would break down and buy the stuff every once in a while=
 . 
 Dishonorable mention to Frankenmuth and Schoenling .


 On the upside , I think one of the most underappreciated brews ,=
 whose
 uniqueness NYers are likely not to recognize is Ballantine Ale=
 .
 It has maintained its hoppy individualism through all the trials=
 of
 an independent brewer over the decades .
  
 For some comments on Belgium brews , see
  http://cosy.com/views/apl94.txt .
 
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