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Found a Red, White and Blue Beer can

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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Found a Red, White and Blue Beer can while working in the old gravel pit. I've never heard of Red,
White and Blue beer before, have you? I've been making dirt by harvesting lake mud, sand, mixing it
with dirt, horse poo, wood chips and hay. I have a nice pile for next year. Will add more poo next
spring, then put the dirt where the Boss tells me. Her retirement project is to plant flowers
in the old gravel pit. She calls it her Garden of Eden project. May post pics of flowers in spring.
She has many acres to plant. She also calls it her lower yard, about 30 ft below grade.
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RW&B was Pabst's cheaper alternative to PBR, just as Old Milwaukee was Schlitz's low budget brand. Can't remember if Miller had one (Milwaukee's Best?)
 
I've seen them. Dad used to collect beer cans. I don't know where they ever went. I think somebody who didn't know any better threw them away.
 
I've seen them before but its been a while. Like so many other beers I've had over the years, all gone now. Blatz, Top Hat, Drewerys, Falls City, Falstaff, Champagne Velvet (CV) and many others. When we visit the daughter in Texas we drink Lone Star and Shiner Bock (when in Rome ......).

John T
 
Blatz was darned good beer. A couple of Blatz beer signs are hanging out in the barn. Maybe they should be in a safer place. I remember Red White and Blue but I don't recall ever drinking the stuff. Right now I'm sitting here with my once a night beer, Schells Dark, and a bag of potato chips. Real healthy supper, huh!
 

My grandfather liked Miller high life. Or Budweiser. But if grandmother went shopping, she bought rwb. ------ the old boy right off!
 
I remember RWB, it was right up there on the list with Buckhorn.
A case of Buckhorn in long neck bottles was less money for the
beer than the deposit on the bottles at the time here in Michigan.
Deposit was a nickle/bottle x 24. The good stuff! LOL
 
That red whit blue is not near as old as the Blatz you guy are talking about. Sterling, Widerman, ook, Goldcrest 51 , Lots of old beers. I put myself thru college working on a beer truck early 60s .. Worst mistake my old man ever made, there was a malt beverage that really took of called country club..So my old man buys a truck load of stuff called Mickeys malt, was in a green mug. Don't think we ever sold 50 cases in two years. Fed the rest to the hogs.. I can tell you lots of stories of early beer business.
 
(quoted from post at 16:47:44 11/08/15) I've seen them before but its been a while. Like so many other beers I've had over the years, all gone now. Blatz, Top Hat, Drewerys, Falls City, Falstaff, Champagne Velvet (CV) and many others. When we visit the daughter in Texas we drink Lone Star and Shiner Bock (when in Rome ......).

John T
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With all the micro-brews around collecting would be a full time job now. This was some of the worst tasting beer I ever bought....still have 5 unopened bottles.
 
I wonder if anybody in the east remembers Schaefer, Piel's, or Schmidt's? Also had Stroh's after they took over the Schaefer Brewery. Then they closed, too. One of the newer brands (Sam Adams maybe) has reopened that facility.
 
(quoted from post at 18:11:36 11/08/15) Those two sound like New Ulm, MN beer.
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The two breweries in New Ulm were Schell's (still going strong) and the former Hohenstein. The War Department hails from there and still has relatives. Schell's does quite a bit of custom bottling for some of the smaller, craft brewers, as they are kind of a mid-major.

I began my beer can collecting in the mid 70s after completing a Christmas gift puzzle displaying a bunch of smaller, local beers from that era, many of which have been mentioned here. I think I had as many as a thousand different cans when it peetered out, most still boxed up in the attic. The numbers are insane today, way too many to keep up with. We have no fewer than 7 different craft brewers within 20 miles, each with dozens of brews- albeit most only available on tap.

We even included brewery tours into family vacations back then, pretty cheap but interesting with trips to Frankenmuth, Milwaukee, St. Louis, etc.

Unfortunately, I soon focused more on quantity than quality...
 
Do you have any insight as to why PBR went to hell in the 80's ? I mean the taste !! I put down a few over the years !!
Led
 
Just wondering when did they quit the pull tabs? I can remember being warned not to drop them in the can.
Seen a show where a guy made a state cutout and in that were holes for bottle caps
 
My home town.

Schells bought the Grain belt name and brought it back to New Ulm.

Schells is the second oldest family brewery in the USA. They made it through prohibition with root beer and pop, which they started brewing
and selling again a decade or two ago.

For a hobby the family head started a winery.......

Paul
 
Thanks for setting me straight Paul. To my taste buds Shells Dark is the best beer made. Our local Hy Vee carries it. Last summer the store switched distributors and I couldn't get my Schells Dark for a couple of months. I tried other brands of dark but nothing compared to my favorite brew. They finally started stocking it again much to my delight.
 
I never tasted it, but remember it being around about the same time that "Billy Beer", Jimmy Carter's brother Billy the alcoholic beer was around in the late 1970's. Have no idea whether or not they still make it. When I was stationed at Ft. Hood, TX. I used to drink Busch. Kind of funny that in the Midwest as far as I can say, Busch tasted like garbage. But when low on money while stationed at Ft. Hood, I bought a case of Busch, figuring what the heck. It was good. Tasted like sweet corn. I guess the difference was being brewed in Houston versus St. Louis. And then one time when being real low on money, me and my buddies were so broke that all we could afford was a case of Falstaff for something like $1.99 on sale. We scraped enough pennies together, bought it and drove down to Lake Belton. We each popped open a can, took a sip, looked at each other and tossed the rest of the case into the lake unopened, then drove back to base and borrowed enough to buy a case of Busch. I'm long since back in the Midwest, and Busch out of St. Louis aint what it was out of Houston, so I don't drink it.

Mark
 
Here's the original puzzle that started it all for me:

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Lots of the brands you guys came up with, plus. Seems like there was one can I never did get, but i was close!
 
To my taste buds Shells Dark is the best beer made.
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There was always a sort of a stigma to Schells beers from some folks. When I first was exposed (mid 80s) I thought they had some really good brews. I took The Boss on the brewery tour the first time I was in town, she had not been, despite growing up a couple of miles away. She was surprised by the quality and variety as well.
I used to like Schmaltz's Alt from Schell the best, but the Dark and Winter Ale have grown on me.

The local bar here has had Blue Ribbon on tap for over 75 years- still tastes the same to me. Sometimes the surroundings dictate the beverage.
 
Wow - I forgot about that stuff.

One of my first jobs was designing machine parts that often required small production orders from a local machinist. We always used this older retired guy, he and his brother worked out of his home shop.

Any time I brought a new job to him, we'd have to sit in his driveway to discuss it over beers for an hour, usually two - no matter what the weather was. 90 degree sun, or 20 degree wind. He had his spot, and what the world was doing around him didn't seem to matter to him.

Great guy - one of those old timers that had so much knowledge that you wish you could somehow preserve him forever.

We always drank warm Red White and Blue (a blessing on those 20 degree days) - not even an attempt at refrigeration - just cases stacked in the shop.

At that time, I wasn't even legal drinking age, so I wasn't complaining.

I had forgotten all about him. Thanks for reminding me!
 
RW&B wasn't too bad and, as I recollect, the price was right. Speaking of price, I remember 14 oz Fallflats (Falstaff) for 99 cents/six pack both at Camp Lejeune and at a local (Danville, VA) conveninece store. I bought Schmits for 75 cents/six pack ($3.00 per case) at the Little Creek Navy base in 1971...that's the lowest price I've ever seen or paid for any beer.
 
yes,, rwb was good beer ,, low end price of pabst br ,,. my dads favorite ,and strohs,..f-I-l liked sterling ,and oertels 92, but they quit making them .I like hamms .. but change up from time to time , occasionally like a good dark beer ,, but only one... what gets me about some beer drinkers is the guy that drinks only bud , and calls all others piz,, funny this guy plays with lots of different women but is loyal to his beer? . personally I get tired of drinkin the same tasting beer ,, drank miller lite the other nite and it had a nice flavor ,..
 

R W B :RED NECK,WHITE SOX,BLUE RIBBON!
Wasen't all that bad either.In the U S alone there must have been at least 1000 different brands of beer.
 
Stag had a brewery in Bellville IL. I used to switch RR cars in and out of there many years ago and use to take a lot of free samples home also.
 
We didn't have near the variety of beers in Pacific NW back in the day- most brands had a "cheap" version- cheap Oly was Buckhorn, Busch had Busch lite, etc. Drank Schaefers for awhile- was embarrassed to get one out for a cousin from Baltimore, until he laughed and said that's all he bought. I've never been big on flavorful beers- so am perfectly satisfied with Busch Lite, which is about as bland as they come. Relative from Germany took one sip, frowned, and said "Vasa bier" (water beer). Neighbor's wife bought Bohemian for the hay crew- because it was so awful that they never wanted more than one.
 
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