"Bro Jack" wrote in message
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1) Long before the Lite beers you see today, there was a reduced
calorie beer called "Gablinger" which came in a brown can.

2) Then there was "Old Frothingslosh" which was also called "Pale
Stale Ale." The cans featured pictures of a 300-lb.- bathing beauty.
I still have two of the cans which are constructed with a very rigid
metal. I guess all cans of beers in those days had metal that
required a lot of effort to squeeze and flatten. How soon we forget.

3) A very unusual tasting malt liquor was "Champale" which came in
green/yellow 12 oz. cans. In later years, they packaged it in bottles
in 4-packs, and had several varieties such as a pink-colored one
called "Pink Champale."

4) I recall when "National Bohemian" had a special sale on their
quart-sized bottles of brew. 3 QUARTS FOR A DOLLAR!!! That was cheap
even in 1962.

The National Boh name is still around but I guess the others are long
gone.

BroJack

When I was young and first married I bought the cheapest beer available in
1961 South Bend, Indiana; Alps Brau from Chicago - $3.95/case....

Fort Wayne's Old Crown brewery made the best ale and bock in the midwest -
bar none....


Nah, but the Berghoff Brewery in Ft. Wayne, which was bought by
Falstaff, DID make the greatest ale of the pre-micro era- Ballantine
India Pale Ale (altho', by the time it hit Ft. Wayne, it was already a
mere shadow of it's former self...). As Michael Jackson said "IndiaNA
Pale Ale"?

Bill Davidsen wrote:

And then there's Miller's "Champagne of Bottled Beers" slogan...

Schlitz, the beer that made Milwalkee famous.

There's also a really bad joke about that, but too dated to tell.


Jax Beer

pijoe wrote:

Bill Davidsen wrote:


And then there's Miller's "Champagne of Bottled Beers" slogan...

Schlitz, the beer that made Milwalkee famous.

There's also a really bad joke about that, but too dated to tell.


Jax Beer


Huh? Is that the punch line to the Schlitz/Milwaukee joke?