Pabst.........

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Blue Ribbon Hard Coffee.  Seriously, I seen some of that on the self today.   There's just something wrong about that.

William81

Lousy beer......likely lousy coffee....

mark christian

PBR was the old standby beer when I was going to high school in the 1970s. It was at every party, and ice cold was not too bad. Of course as a teenager, what did I know about beer? Somewhere along the line PBR either changed the recipe, or I simply outgrew it. In either case, I gave up on it.

4205raymond

Yuck! I should not be so hard on PBR. I have heard tell that the draft was good stuff from the old timers like me.-----------------Ray

Aztngundoc22

OK : 
PBR is my favorite beer (has been forever) : draft is great !!!
Guess Im an 'Old Fart' ??? lol
Thanks !!!

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I've drank a lot of Pabst.   It was a sad day when the local joint quit having it on tap.

toad67

Good when ice cold, but boy does it make me fart...

Chief Shaway

My dads go to in the early 70’s.

Then as mentioned above, something changed with it and he moved on to something else.

I did pick up this old light from our Legion to hang in my garage.

cbxjeff

I grew up in Peoria and after high school a few of my pals went to work at the Pabst brewery in Peoria Heights.  They told me when working on the line, the workers were permitted to pull a beer off the line and down it.  However, falling over drunk was frowned upon. 

bustedknee

We called it Fisherman's beer.

Mostly water.

He Dog

William81 said:

Lousy beer......likely lousy coffee....

Don't know about the coffee, but damn sure agree on the beer.  Not even from the land of sky blue waters.

gartman

Schlitz used to be popular until suddenly tasted "skunky". Other guys said the same thing. Years later as sales tanked the company announced they were going back to the original recipe. Would not buy another from a co. so clueless they didn't go back as soon as sales began to slide.

Sam06

I have been a PBR drinker since High School.  It is really good ice cold and its not too expensive.  I would say it is my stand by beer of choice but I also like Mexican Beer, with Modelo or Pacifica as my favorite.

When I was stationed in Panama I drank Bush Beer.  I think it was $5 a case.

Kenya has good beer too as does most of South and Central America.  Imperial Beer from Costa Rica is good.

I don't drink coffee so I would know good from bad.

love2shoot

Sunday beer.  No beer sales in Indiana on Sunday but someone always had some PBR in their trunk, rolling around.

Rocky Raab

People who don't like Pabst or any of the old style beers have likely become wussified to the point they drink girlie beer. It is a fact that "Light" beers were created to appeal more to women. The trend continued until today, when most "beers" are little more than seltzer as far as malt body is concerned. That's exactly why microbreweries are such a success - they still brew real beer.

chiefr

After living in Germany for nearly 4 years, most American beer tastes like water.

mogley98

Funny because PBR's have become a "thing" with the younger crowd.

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mogley98 said:

Funny because PBR's have become a "thing" with the younger crowd.

Thanks for the compliment.

BobJudy

Pabst is just to sweet tasting to me and doesn't hold much interest for me. Kind of a beer tasting soda for college kids.  About the only domestic beer I like anymore is Killians Irish Red. I am fond of Modelo and I guess you could call that domestic nowadays too. Bob

Grunt2

I can't speak on the PBR coffee beer you mentioned...but last year in Mesa AZ we went to a micro pub called "The Beer Research Institute"...They make a Milk Stout called "Morning Sex"...made with cold press coffee from Peixoto Coffee...Really nice beer!! Their other beers...not so much...

5.8% ABV...30 IBU

Sam06

Did ya'll know PBR is brewed by Miller/Coors.

Ditch-Runner

as a young kid all I ever seen was the PBR beer for a long time some one said beer all I could thin of was the PBR  .  My mom and dad never drank but  enough  neighbors and a a  favorite uncle of mine ( RIP ) made up for it 
I did some Ok a lot of  beer drinking when I was about 16 to 25 or so but funny I never remember drinking any PBR 

 

gesshots

mark christian said:

PBR was the old standby beer when I was going to high school in the 1970s. It was at every party, and ice cold was not too bad. Of course as a teenager, what did I know about beer? Somewhere along the line PBR either changed the recipe, or I simply outgrew it. In either case, I gave up on it.

Somewhere in the 1980s the recipe was changed. In the '70s PBR was a staple. About the same time I started experiment with

foreign brews mostly German and came to settle on dark beer only, favoring Porters or Stouts. Lagers lost their appeal. Still as PBR was common and a good thirst quencher, especially when working outside in winter ... Just put a six pack of 16ozers in a snow bank and you were good to go.  

Beagler410

I've had the PBR hard coffee. It tastes alot like YooHoo. It is interesting, but not a staple.

It is fairly expensive though. About 12 bucks a 4 pack here in PA.

Beagler410

hillbille

gartman said:

Schlitz used to be popular until suddenly tasted "skunky". Other guys said the same thing. Years later as sales tanked the company announced they were going back to the original recipe. Would not buy another from a co. so clueless they didn't go back as soon as sales began to slide.

I can second that one, loved Schlitz then one day it just suddenly tasted like dish soap, I remember a little bar I went to down at Lejeune, must of had case or so in cooler, winnings from pool table, told bartender to give em to someone else as much as I wanted to, just couldn't get em down anymore, had to be either 1981 or 1982.

montanajoe

Sitting at the bar,PBR,pickled pig feet,and slim jims.  

BobJudy

montanajoe said:

Sitting at the bar,PBR,pickled pig feet,and slim jims.  

Hey make it a four course meal and add one of the pickled eggs and a redhot. Bob

chme

PBR- sex in a canoe.  (BLEEPING near water)
Yes, I like that "girlie" beer.  St. Pauli Girl.  Dark.  

Smitty500mag

Chief Shaway said:

My dads go to in the early 70’s.

Then as mentioned above, something changed with it and he moved on to something else.

I did pick up this old light from our Legion to hang in my garage.

PBR was about all us boys drank back in the 60s. I've still got a couple of old Pabst signs some where. I also took a couple of signs out of my grandpa's restaurant after he died.  

chme

If you think PBR is the very bottom of the barrel, you would be wrong.

Ba Moui Ba

Smitty500mag

I would say in my opinion that it's a toss up between Pfeiffer’s and Iron City Beer for the worst tasting beer that I've ever drank. I get a growl in my gut just thinking about it. 

select-fire

Every time I see the word I think of my Grand Pappy. I use to fill them up with water and put the cap back on. He would take a swig ..about half the bottle and realize I done it to him again.

nononsense

From long ago and your nearby liquor store:

Genesee Cream Ale

Falstaff

Stite

Pickett

Olympia Gold

Coors (all flavors)

Drewrys

Carling Black Label

Hamm's

Schaefer

Blatz

Old Style (Heileman)

dfletcher

Sam06 said:

I have been a PBR drinker since High School.  It is really good ice cold and its not too expensive.  I would say it is my stand by beer of choice but I also like Mexican Beer, with Modelo or Pacifica as my favorite.

When I was stationed in Panama I drank Bush Beer.  I think it was $5 a case.

Kenya has good beer too as does most of South and Central America.  Imperial Beer from Costa Rica is good.

I don't drink coffee so I would know good from bad.

I went to college in downstate Illinois +40 years ago - discovered Rhinelander beer at about $3.00 a case.  And something called Little Kings.  As I recall, we'd start the night with Little Kings and end up with Rhinelander - and Mail Pouch.

BobJudy

nononsense said:

From long ago and your nearby liquor store:

Genesee Cream Ale

Falstaff

Stite

Pickett

Olympia Gold

Coors (all flavors)

Drewrys

Carling Black Label

Hamm's

Schaefer

Blatz

Old Style (Heileman)

I've had all but 2 of those. Some good, some bad but you don't know until you try them. Carlings used to have  tours at their brewery in Frankenmuth just a hop, skip and a jump north of me here in Michigan. Well maybe it was a trip, fall and crawl on the way home.😁 Bob

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In my area folks used to drink a lot of Falls City and Sterling them being local made.    I haven't had an Old Style beer in decades, I remember it being pretty good.  Wiedemanns Beer was the 3-4 dollar a case stuff you could drink if you got it cold enough.  Stroh's beer was our go to most of the time but they changed something in the recipe and we quit it.

But by golly I still drink Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer.

susie

I can't ever remember having a Pabst. Finished off many racks of Hacher Pschorr while living in Germany. Spoiled me for the most part on American beers.

Now days i shop for the obscure micro breweries. Being in Missouri its easy to get Boulevard in its many varieties. Little Rock and NWA also have a multitude of micro breweries so when i visit #2 or #3 I get a chance to sample.

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austin20 said:

Any of you guys remember this beer?

Yep

Smitty500mag

austin20 said:

Any of you guys remember this beer?

I think Falls City found a way to get rid of the dregs in the bottom of their vats and canned it as Billy Beer. They would show old Billy holding a can of Billy Beer in the ads but he was a life time drinker of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer. 

Say what you may about old Billy but he served 4 years in the Marine Corps. May he RIP. 

Rocky Raab

Army troops in Vietnam were allowed to have Carling Black Label in steel cans - always rusted. Rumor was that it had been on a cargo ship on the way to Europe when WW II ended, sat there unloaded for a few years, then carried to Korea where it again just missed the festivities and sat at the dock, then finally taken to Vietnam where it was unloaded and stacked on the beach in full sun for a few months before being doled out two cans a day to all those poor draftees.

Ba Moui Ba was better. A lot better. And Ba Moui Ba was preserved with formaldehyde.

I had an enamel-painted can of Genesee in upstate NY once. It could have come straight from the horse. Back home in Illinois, we had Falstaff and Stag as well as the "across the river" stuff like Busch. You were considered something of a local traitor if you drank any of the "imported" stuff like Stroh's or Old Milwaukee.

Today, they'd all be considered horrible - but they were real beer, not carbonated water like the ones they make now.