Hahahahaha! That's saying a lot from LA!

Pabst does suck. I only drink it because it is a $1 a can at the bar next to work. Makes the math easy when figgerin' my tab at the end of the night. I just count the can tabs in my pocket. I don't what the state of beer was back in 1876, but it must have been terrible if Pabst won the blue ribbon.

LOL! You guys are on a roll.

Dude, the Coors at my corner bodega are $1 for a 24oz can. Thats cheaper than cases. Cheap wins out over crappy tasting every day.

FYI:

The Pabst Brewing Company is a 19th century brewer retooled for the 21st century. Pabst, founded in 1844, today is a "virtual" brewer. It owns no brewery; instead, Pabst pays other brewers, such as Miller and Lion Brewery, to brew the beers, while it retains ownership of the brands (Pabst Blue Ribbon, Pearl, Lone Star, Old Milwaukee, Old Style, Schlitz, and Colt 45) and markets the products. The Pabst Brewing Company is owned by the Kalmanovitz Charitable Trust.

<-- pabst nerd.

Oh, and cool pictures from the pabst factory.

Iron City Or Nothing

I have more respect for my stomach and liver than that.

National Bohemian is the $1 beer of choice in Baltimore. It's worth about a dollar, too.

My goodness, my Guinness for me, please.

My general rule is not to drink beer thats cheaper than water. You gotta wonder, what do they brew it with if the end results is cheaper than a bottle of water. Actually, I don't even want to think about it.

I don't know if it is even worth that.....It is as close to carbonated vinegar as it comes which is why it is so tasty when you use it to steam crabs.

not to go back to serious mode, but...
as a native Milwaukeean, please understand the heartbreak that PBR has caused my people.
Pabst moved out of milwaukee in the mid 80's, leaving a few blocks of downtown a ghost town, leaving hundreds without jobs, and leaving many life-long employees without pensions. Pabst claimed that in its bankruptcy it lost the pension funds- and indeed, it did. Pabst's case is one of the reasons that employers are now required to keep pension funds separate from general accounts.

needless to say, there are still ghost-blocks in the city, and people who worked their entire lives with promise of a pension now forced to work part time at wal mart to make ends meet. makes the beer taste a little more, well, bitter.

Hey, National Bohemian "Natty Boh" used to be made in Baltimore. Now nobody can tell me where it's made. :-(

i like pabst.. call me crazy.. but for 99cents a 24oz.. it does me just fine.. that pabst story is grim.. is it still the same owners? seems these days the only thing the same with alot of these beers is the name

while on the subject of cheap beer: can someone from milwaukee help me identify a deal i scored when i was in milwaukee in january? it was $15 for a "keg case" of 50 beers. do the math, that's cheap as can be. 5 people with $3 each can have 10 beers. i forget the brand though, it was something regional and unexplicably bad.

(edit), one identifiable characteristic of this "keg case" was that it was a cardboard box shaped like a keg, and hollow in the middle so all you had to do was pour ice in it, and it was ready to rock.

the markup on water is incredible, its not that beer is cheaper than water; go look at the price of the stroe-brands of gallon jugs of water and you'll see you get more than ripped off on those 16-24oz bottles.

very true, i dont think any of the Cincinnati breweries are open, but their names are stilled used and contracted out to some brewer in St Louis. Pabst, at least according to their website, uses the same recipe and all as they used to; and is still union-made in america, it could be worse they could have shipped production off to slave labor like some american icon bicycle recently did.

I just got bracketed by Katrina & Rita. One to the left, the other to the right. And in both cases, Wally World sold out of all beer but Coors Light. Says something about local thoughts on beer.

When a hurricane is coming, it's time for serious beer, like Shiner or Abita.

Man, I remember when I was young the Pabst Mansion, here in Milwaukee, would host the scariest haunted house ever. I think it's since been shut down.

god bless abita!

I don't know the last time you've visited, but the city and local businesses are slowly trying to reclaim the old Pabst Brewery area.
Not condoning Pabst's abandoment of the city, just saying.

"Today's National Bohemian is "National" in name only, National Brewing having disappeared as an independent entity in 1975. The beer of the Land of Pleasant Living is now brewed in North Carolina by Miller Brewing, under a contract agreement with Pabst"

https://citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=3445

Drank lots of that stuff myself. Also national premium dark at the mt royal tavern.

Oh, and while we're on the subject of great micro-brews, I long for the past four years of delicious and cheap New England beers.
You can all give me crap, but Sea Dog Blueberry Beer, from Maine I believe, is incredible.
I miss Boston.

Ommegang is great stuff, belgian style beers brewed by very cool folks in upstate ny.

natural ice is worse than coors, believe it or not. Nattie Ice as we used to lovingly call it in high school. Even then, we know it was crap beer.

Delirium Tremers on the other hand is yummy and will knock you on your a$$. Gotta love the high alcohol beers.

Next time you're up north [and west] try Great Western. It's truly foul, even by cheap beer standards, and it's 6% or thereabouts. I have migrated the other way, to expensive beer. Guiness, Hoegaarden, Boddington's and Strongbow cider are my poisons du jour now. Although I still recall the days when I drank Beer Beer from stubbies. So good -- so sickening...