Cheap, back-in-the-day, beer thread.

[tower912]

We have an epic thread about beer.   Mmmmmm, beer.    A tangent just popped up in a thread about how the thought of an Old Style took a poster back to a different place and time.   We miss Ousmane Barro.       So........which beer, that you never drink any more, takes you back to college, even for a minute?   I have two.   
1.  Miller Lite.   The Gym.   (happy blank look on my face as I drift a way)
2.  Special Export.   God, I loved that stuff.   Tasted like Moosehead, brewed in Lacrosse.......New owners, new recipe, never mind. 

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

We have an epic thread about beer.   Mmmmmm, beer.    A tangent just popped up in a thread about how the thought of an Old Style took a poster back to a different place and time.   We miss Ousmane Barro.       So........which beer, that you never drink any more, takes you back to college, even for a minute?   I have two.   
1.  Miller Lite.   The Gym.   (happy blank look on my face as I drift a way)

Was going to Miller Lite also.
I have to add in Red, White & Blue from the Lanche

I used to keep a tourist pamphlet from the Old Style Brewery inviting everyone to "Come visit the world's largest six pack!".

[Archies Bat]

Special Ex and Andeker when we could afford it.

[CTWarrior]

I used to drink Pabst like it was water during my MU days.  Now I can't remember the last time I had one.  Couldn't beat the $1.63 six-pack specials at Doc's of either Pabst or Old Style.  Also appreciated the Special Ex, too.  I had completely forgotten about that stuff!

For East Coasters Schaefer was the one (cheap) beer to have when you were having more than one!

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Miller "Red"

[wildbill sb]

My, oh my, Gettelman Brewery located in the shade of the humongous State Street Miller Brewing Complex was our beer of choice on tap in the fraternity house basement at 3005 W. Kilbourn - namely, because owner Richard Gettelman was an honorary member of the MU chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi profesional business fraternity.  C'mon, what fraternity member wouldn't buy his brother a beer?

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

You could get 24 bottles of returnable Huber at Pick n Save for $2.75 "back in the day." And yes, they were returnable. I think we'd get .75 back.

[WI inferiority Complexes]

I was a bartender for awhile at Conway's.  They had a tap which said, "JJ's Brew," that was actually Special Export.

I spent sophomore year drinking 12 packs of Shaeffer, ($4.98 at Kampus Foods); when we moved off campus, kegs of Busch Light were $33, (delivered with two bags of ice and two sleeves of cups) from Greenfield, so that's all we drank.

[WI inferiority Complexes]

Miller "Red"

I was just talking about that to a person that didn't believe that beer ever existed. 

[damuts222]

Played ultimate Frisbee for one year, Blatz was the Frisbee teams beer of choice.  Would drink the Blatz out of a Frisbee.

[Chili]

Whatever Badger Beer on State had. Flastaff, Glueck, Golden. All for about $5 a flat case.

Also miss $1 bottles of Leinie's O at Heg's.

[tower912]

$1 import night at the Ardmore was fun.   Lots of Corona's with fruit (never my thing), lots of exotic Euro brews.    $1.99 six packs of Mickey's big mouths.

[Archies Bat]

$1.99 six packs of Mickey's big mouths.

I still have scars on my fingers from opening the pull top they used to have.

[BrewCity83]

You could get 24 bottles of returnable Huber at Pick n Save for $2.75 "back in the day." And yes, they were returnable. I think we'd get .75 back.

We'd get the returnable Hamm's longnecks for $2.99 a case.  We had an old Coke machine that kept 3 cases cold at a time, so we could fill that sucker for under ten bucks.  The Hamm's had a bit of a sweet finish....mmmmmmmmmmm.  Haven't had a Hamm's in at least 15 years.

[tower912]

Miller "Red"

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/105/5587/

"This beer is retired."

[warriorchick]

    $1.99 six packs of Mickey's big mouths.

My grandma lived down the street from where they brewed Mickey's.  Good old Stag Brewery in Belleville, Illinois.

Sadly, no brewery tours there.

[🏀]

I always felt like the downstate Illinois universities had a better cheap beer selection.

Going to go keefe on everyone here:

[Lennys Tap]

  $1.99 six packs of Mickey's big mouths.

The great Tom Waits immortalized Mickey's Big Mouths in the song "Frank's Wild Years" - the title character sits in his car laughing and polishing off a 6 pack of Mickey's while watching his house (which he set on fire) burn to the ground ("All chimney orange and fire engine red") - a love song to the middle class in California in the early 80s.

For me at MU, the beer of choice was Budweiser longnecks, $3.84 a case at Lenny's Tap (plus deposit). Usually when we returned a case we were short a few bottles (things seemed to get broken often back then) but Lenny never minded - gave us full credit anyway. Second favorite was anything else.

[WellsstreetWanderer]

PBR  which my niece ,who lives in Vail, tells me is in vogue.

[hairy worthen]

Beside the standard miller, miller lite 3 come to mind.

Red dog, Jacob best and icehouse which were actually premium beers back in the day, now you can still find icehouse in the gut rot section for really cheap

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

You could get 24 bottles of returnable Huber at Pick n Save for $2.75 "back in the day." And yes, they were returnable. I think we'd get .75 back.

LOl!  I never bought but I remember seeing that at PickN'Save and thinking that was too inexpensive to even attempt to drink.  I still tell people that "when I was at college you get beer at the supermarket for......................"

[keefe]

The ultimate in cheap drinking was to buy a carry out 6 of PBR for $1.20 then stay in the 'Lanche and drink it. PBR was a premium brew compared with the RWB Archie had on tap for a quarter. 

[warriorchick]

PBR  which my niece ,who lives in Vail, tells me is in vogue.

Yes, believe it or not, PBR is now considered Hipster beer.

When we told our kids about the old expression. "Red neck, white shoes, and Blue Ribbon beer", they could hardly believe it.

[Hards Alumni]

Olde English
Icehouse
Mickeys
Milwaukee's Best light
Milwaukee's Best
Milwaukee's Best Ice

[Wojo'sMojo]

Where I live they have crappy can Monday... Schlitz, Hamms, Keystone, etc are all $1 for tall boys