Comments on: USA, PBR and you

By: lorene

lorene — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:01:34 +0000

I still miss Pickwick Ale. Has anyone found a beer with a similar taste?

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:48:48 +0000

I am a lover of fine beer. The Unibroue Brewery is a gift to mankind. Sam Smith is a fond friend. Guinness, though mass produced, is a delicious and heart warming brew. Julius Echter still sends me into flights of joy and ecstasy with his fruity ways. I have had and hope to have these in the future. What PBR and Narragansett offer to me is cheap beer that tastes decent and is cheap. Did I mention cheap? I’m a grad student who loves beer, but a 4 pack of Maudite (which would probably get me as drunk as a six-pack of PBR pounders) is $9. I can almost get two six packs of PBR tall boys for that. At the end of a long day of trying desperately to get my research done, I want cold, unoffensive and alcoholic. PBR does that and does it cheaply. My love of beer has no classes, we’re one big beer loving family.

By: TR

TR — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:17:27 +0000

Thanks for this entry… a few random thoughts along this thread:

- when I lived in NYC, I would get off the subway and the little bodega had a cooler full of 16 oz. Bud cans floating in a half-ice, half ice-melt slurry. August in New York in Brooklyn, perched on the freezing point, they were the most critical beers on earth…

- Amtrak now offers Yeungling lagers on its trains — and charges premium beer prices for them! I am in fact drinking one right now, because it has more soul than anything else they are selling.

- Rolling Rock, PBR, fond memories of youth… easily revisted…

There *is* a place for cheap beer in the universe. I’m a newbie here but am enjoying this blog — thanks!

By: LoungeTracks

LoungeTracks — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:54:03 +0000

Fort Schuyler?
Anyone?… Fort Schuyler?
In a cone top? Beuller?

By: bryan y

bryan y — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:55:38 +0000

I’ve been drinking PBR for a few years, especially when I go out to shows around the Boston area (PBR’s and rock guitars… you really can’t go wrong). However, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend at some premier rock bars in Boston as of late.

Pretty much all over Boston a few months ago, the standard was a $3, 16oz can of PBR. Now, if I go to my local liquor store, I can pick up a 6-pack of those tall boys for around $4. Obviously there’s some markup involved selling any alcohol at any bar. It it what it is. However, I went to the Paradise for a show around the middle of June and they weren’t selling any PBR. What? That’s a little strange… I go a few months later and the tall PBR had returned… for $4. Criminal!

The same week I went to the Middle East, who still had those same 16oz’ers for $3. Sounds good to me, or so I thought. Just went to a show there the other night and it’s still $3… but for a 12oz can! Come on! Last time I checked (and this was a while ago, mind you), you could still buy a pitcher of PBR at Crazy Dough’s for $3, and a small draft for $1. Again, I know the prices are gouged a bit at venues, but what the hell. I guess I’m going to have to shotgun a few before I head out to a show next time…

By: ljclark

ljclark — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:29:48 +0000

Cleve, Black Label is alive and well, at least at Sav-Mor liquors.

By: Br. Cleve

Br. Cleve — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:44:16 +0000

Champagne Velvet? Sounds like Pam Grier shoulda been drinking that in “Sheba, Baby”. I think I could use a few cans of it myself, sounds great. Pinkster, bring over a couple of 6′s and we’ll watch “Cleopatra Jones”.

I love Leinenkugel. They had it on tap at a club I was DJ’ing at last year. Great with an orange slice in it. Slim, I don’t know if it’s been given the Gansett treatment, but I think not. I was in the midwest a few months ago and there are a number of variations of it available (summer ale, shandy, etc) that are starting to show up in packys here.

Is Black Label still around? Why do I think it is? I went to the old brewery in Natick back in the 70′s. There was a bar at the end of the tour and you got to sit around and have a few. Did the ‘Gansett brewery tour in Cranston, too. Best brewery was Molson in Montreal : you got to watch films like “Trout Fishing In Quebec” (seriously, I saw it) while you sat around in their ‘bar’ and got hammered on Brador (Molson’s malt liquor, 8% ABV I believe)

I’m quite excited to try the Schlitz Classic Anyone going to Chicago who can grab me a 6?

By: MC Slim JB

MC Slim JB — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:56:59 +0000

My folks were Carling’s Black Label drinkers back in the day. I also saw them bring home a few cartons of Champale (ever so classy), which if memory serves was the first modern malt liquor to be a commercial success.

I didn’t really love beer as a young drinker until I spent some time in the Midwest and came across Heileman’s Old Style (then served in the stands at Wrigley), the old-formula Stroh’s, and Leinenkugel, which I recently sampled on tap at Town Docks in Meredith, NH, a little beach-shack type of place on Lake Winnepesauke (good clam roll, too). That Leinie tasted crafty enough that I suspect it has also gotten the modern ‘Gansett treatment.

By: pinky g

pinky g — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:03:36 +0000

Oh! and I recommend this boilermaker: Miller HIgh Life and Belle de Brillet shot. Really.

By: pinky g

pinky g — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:52:23 +0000

Ok, I feel compelled to share my little corn-water secret – not that anyone necessarily cares. From the town where I was born, Terre Haute IN of all places, comes Champagne Velvet – a beer I wish we could drink in Boston. “Sparkling as Champagne and smooth as velvet” (!) and they still use the same pre-prohibition pilsner recipe they say. It is tasty. Unfortunately you have to go to Terre Haute to get it. (JG and I have been to the brewery and it’s worth a stop, for those passing through for whatever reason!) Interesting that they are in negotiations with an Indy Belgian-beer group, as I just learned from going to their website here: http://www.cvbeer.com/index.php Hmn. Sniff.