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NOVEMBER 21, 2011 9:07PM

Where Are the Beers of Yesteryear?

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Tell me in what hidden bar is
Pickwick Ale still served today?
Where is Carling, where is Hamm’s?
Both are gone, I hear you say.

Where is Falstaff—Shakespeare’s brew?
Drunk but in memory I fear.
He whose belly held twelve ounces--
Where are the beers of yesteryear?

Where is Schlitz, where is Blatz?
Where’s Miss Reingold, Subway Queen?
Lost her head, so unlike Piel’s,
She has no foam coiffure to preen.

Who now savors Champagne Velvet
The scorn of decent men must fear,
They who buy Bud by the case.
Where are the beers of yesteryear?

If I spy some Ballantine’s
I buy that ale when’er I can.
A work of art, thought Lichtenstein
In its cool green neon can.

If you’re having more than one
Schaefer’s is the one to have—that’s clear.
Special Export, Old Milwaukee--
Where are the beers of yesteryear?

Never ask a bored barkeep
Where they are gone, that once were here,
Except with this for an afterword—
Where are the beers of yesteryear?

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Hey PBR is the beer of choice for hipsters so all is not lost!

One might argue "good riddance to bad rubbish" for some of these.
*sniff* Don't say that!
Royal Amber by Wiedemann, and of course, Utica Club:

http://puppetvision.info/2011/09/schultz-and-dooley-utica-club-beer-commercials.html

These days I'll take a Negra Modelo, if you're buying, and anything dark and cheap if you're not ( me, I'm light and cheap)
You gotta try a `
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Smutty Nose Beer.
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I stopped off to have two.
It's a Rhode Island Beer?
I's sipping one just now.
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Con C. I just passed through Boston. Honest. The football game has everyone driving so goofy.
The beer is a India Pale Ale.
It's the "Funniestkind" too.
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The label has two lawyer.
They just sit a grin all day.
You sure You not a drunk?
Most lawyers jest ain't right.
They act haughty and very`
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Smuttynose. I just said:
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To someone in Rhode Island.
I don't dare turn on any blogs.
She is cute. I hope She no read.
She's married to a nice Marine.
You make me wish for a tea cup.
Tea inebriation is the best brew.
I wish no one could speak words.
We could go sit and sip and giggle.
She is happily wed. That's great too.
If young again - Con C.? No sip gins.

Gin may make You a editor? Lawyer?
You able to gulp beer in PA's banks?
I'd stay away. Magistrates arrest Ya!

I was talking to a woman. She's nice.
I still will never go in PA's Saloons.

Magistrates get Restraining Order.
No go into Waynesboro, PA. bank.
You do? Con C. get Mug beer shot.

I buy You a Yengling ot Papst Beer.
Ooh Art - Yengling - that's a nice reference.
you gotta do.

what is for the present is the very beer the yeast.

pbr is my drink , again goosh they ask why.

to get to a intoxicatin eye wise
beyond currentprojecions.
i wax
kinda deepon pbr.
Where are the beer commercials?

http://www.jfredmacdonald.com/macfilms/vintage%201-25.htm#VINTAGE%2025

WIEDEMANN'S BEER: cartooned cowboy wants a beer for his horse, too―Mike Nichols and Elaine May ca. 1960

" Barmaid, I need a Wiedemann for my horse"
"You'll have to get that dusty old horse out of here!
" I'm awful sorry Seymour"
"That's all right Hank, I'm driving anyway. "

at least that's the way I remember it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0_QSmxKJ8M&feature=related
where I grew up, "I'm awful sorry Seymour" was what we said before we started saying "Sorry about that, Chief"
Ahh yes - the Rhinegold girls!

And Mel Allen doing his Ballentine thing.

And the Schaefer Beer Coney Island Tuesday night fireworks.

Hmmm Hmmmm.

R
Blatz. The beer you have after you kill a cockroach with a loafer.
Uh, I mean "had."
They still sell Hamm's down at the local Save Mart. I haven't had the nerve to try it..."Hamms -- The Beer Refreshing" -- I can still hear that jingle...
rhode island got a gem.
that is fer sure.
name is alexis james.

"Smuttynose. I just said:
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To someone in Rhode Island.
I don't dare turn on any blogs.
She is cute. I hope She no read.
She's married to a nice Marine.
You make me wish for a tea cup.
Tea inebriation is the best brew.
the first beer I stole from my friend's dad was a Hamm's.
the second beer I stole from my friend's dad was a Hamm's and a PBR.
but it was a borrowed six-pack of Schlitz that put us on our buttz.
All good questions!
The Drummond Brothers, the Weidemanns, the Greiesedeick Bros. all are gone they once had great favor. I think they got in trouble when favor became flavor.
we're all doing what we can
Nice one. You know beer makes you smart! it made Bud weiser....
Or Rolling Rock or Mickey's or Narragansett. If it's water you want, ask for it, but if you're looking for a beer, order Blatz.
Heileman's Old Style, Strohs...I'm gonna get drunk I keep remembering these...hic...
Wow, that's a trip down memory lane--I vividly remember those Hamm's commercials from when I was a kid.
I never had the opportunity to drink Blatz, but the name always suggested the noise a fat man would make after ingesting a couple six packs of it.
*rim shot*!

I knew a kid whose father always had a twelve-pack of Hamm's in the fridge. With a double-figure inventory like that, he never missed one.
Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie Gibbons.
That's a new one on me. I now go into the walk-in cooler so I can get beyond the blueberry IPA's in the front shelf. Who wants blueberries in their beer?
I tried a blueberry beer in Maine a couple of summers ago. Local brewery, I forget the name. Wasn't bad, actually - the blueberry. I believe my son brought a six-pack back with him.
Okay, maybe I'll try it. But I'm reminded of the Kentucky saying: "Whiskey with water spoils two good things."
Con C. We bumped on the Open Salon Feed.

Remember those small green bottles?
Labote, PA's Beer called Rolling Rock?
You had to drink many and just go pee?

The beer was rumored to be Pony Pee.
You sure You no sip Pony Piss Beer?
Get to DC. I buy You Smutty Nose.

Buy Barack Obama Smuttynose IPA.
Respectfully. Thank You very much.
No sip beer for breakfast. Behave.
Rolling Rock is now owned by Inbev-Anheuser Busch. I still buy it.

I remember those little pony bottles. We used to drink them in the truck when I worked on a grounds crew.

I note that Latrobe PA is close to Three Mile Island. You've been warned.
I always wondered where Carling Black Label went...
For a real kick, try Carling Elephant Malt Liquor. I think they put an elephant on the label because a six-pack would fell a pachyderm.
i thinks Strohs might be back but now it is called Shorts.

or is it just a mirror image

strohs shorts