http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRhitaqOkAc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpo1uGO28aM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_HfFGdS-0
I remember Rhengold. Nasty stuff. I sure miss Ballantine’s India Pale Ale, though. A cold winter will affect the price of beer and other cereal products. The Great Lakes were frozen solid longer than normal last winter so ships could not get to the docks at Thunder Bay, Ontario (for one) to load at the elevators. Because the elevators at the ports couldn’t be emptied, the grain in the elevators on the prairies couldn’t go anywhere. A large proportion of barley used for beer production is malted at the Weyermann plant in Bamberg, Germany. The barley gets shipped there in bulk by ship and train, then comes back to breweries all over the world in bags. Without fresh barley, the whole process stops and beer becomes more expensive. A lack of room on the rails due to all the oil travelling around means pretty much the same thing, a lack of barley at the malting plants. a lot of my friends here in Toronto run small breweries and they all get malted barley from Weyermann’s and yes prices went up as a result of last winter’s extreme cold.
“Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer.”
“Schaeffer is the one beer to have when you’re having more than one.”
“Get a smile every time; make it Ballantine.”
“The F&M Schaeffer Brewery, New York and Albany New York and Baltimore Maryland.”
Which reminds me of a bad (and now politically incorrect) joke about a woman whose doctor told her to drink lots of Schaeffer…
In Heaven there is no beer, that’s why…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKUalFpwUQI
Bit of irony: You present two pictures of church keys, then your last video is about the pull-tab that made them almost obsolete.
15% of the people drink 85% of the beer.
I don’t know about potato chips.
I’m disappointed, nobody has an opener for Atlas Prager Beer. Dad used to keep one in the silverware drawer in the kitchen.
You do know that in August they brought it back, trying to re-create the original formula.
I honestly don’t know whether this was a New Coke sort of situation. I had only peripheral exposure to ‘true’ Ballantine before they changed the formula, and if memory serves it was kind of like the Laphroaig of brews – ‘it takes a verra determined laddie to get that stoof doon’ …
The ‘revised standard version’ has been available all these years (if you don’t mind that its brewing has been outsourced to Miller ‘and it shows’ … ;-} )
Ballantines’ IPA is coming back? That to me was one of the benchmarks of the American IPA style and for the price, you couldn’t beat it! Sure, there’s better beer around these days, but I sure have fond memories of it. A really great inexpensive beer? Yuengling’s! Not that I want to turn a train column into one about beer but beer and trains go together like beer and hell, anything!
Schaefer pleasure doesn’t fade even when your thirst is done!
The most rewarding flavour in this man’s world
for people who are having fun, Shaefer is the
one beer to have when you’re having more than one!
If I may make a suggestion – their Black & Tans are ambrosia! Almost as good as the New Amsterdam Black & Tans, which are right at the top of the list for me.
I’ll also put in a plug here for Black Douglas, the official steam technologists’ drink. (Broughton also does IPA, and probably does it quite well…)
You like Black & Tan from Yuengling’s? You are a gentleman of good taste! I’m not familiar with Black Douglas and Broughton, they sound English. Are they? As an aside, this weekend is Cask Days in Toronto- look it up on your googler. There’ll be real ale from Britain and California and I sure could use some Sierra Nevada Torpedo on cask and that’s a fact!
Moose Drool = great beer.
“How do they get the chips into the aluminum cans? It seems like the opening in the top of the can would be too small for chips of any decent size.”
Beer Can Potato Chips I think U are on to something.
We cant malt grain here?
A large proportion of barley used for beer production is malted at the Weyermann plant in Bamberg, Germany
FX Matt in Utica makes Saranac and Utica Club and gets grain via SUZYQ
They call them ‘Pringles’.
“Atlas Prager get it.
Atlas Prager got it!”
With a slogan like that, no wonder they went out of business.