RFI: Names Of Really Really Cheap Beers & Booze That Punks Would Have Been Drinking In The U.K. & U.S. In The 70's & 80's To Help Fuel Their Shitty Bands

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for something i'm writing. i won't be able to use that many, but i wanted a few representative brands for both UK & US punk. I've got a few in mind already. I might go with Blatz for one, just cuz i love the name and it's what i used to drink many moons ago (along with iron city, meister brau, olde german, mickey's, and haffenreffer.)be as historically accurate as you like. and a couple of crap wine brands or other punk-identified liquors of the past couldn't hurt. what were L.A. punx drinking? Mostly, i want good Brit swill names. thanx.

anarchy, peace & freedom, Scott

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Mt. Rainier for the NW types.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Falls City for the KY types.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheap shitty cider, shurely?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Old Style in Chicago, Pabst Blue Ribbon everywhere else

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

olympia? schlitz? rheingold!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

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― BOATPEOPLEHATEFUCK (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there a brand called Milwaukee Beer? I remember when I was small, my cousin Shane would say that the ocean looked like Milwaukee Beer.

― youn, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

what u noise-rock doods drink, jon?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Black Label.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Butane.

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Lone Star
Schlitz
Pabst (Blue Ribbon?)

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

In the UK, Strongbow cider and Carsberg Special Brew beer.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

~~Carsberg~~ Carlsberg

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Also I remember reading that John Lydon's house on Gunther Grove had a fireplace stacked high with empty Red Stripe cans.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't Thunderbird a given?

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.spynotebook.org/chip/archives/pictures/randomdinner.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

...what were L.A. punx drinking?

Brew 102! Also Keystone and plain wrap (in the white can with the blue stripe, see the Black Flag video and Repo Man). And Mad Dog 20/20 (a cough-syrupy Mogen David fortified wine, 20% alcohol).

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus OTM about the strongbow cider. Scrumpy too, I'm assuming.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

in the fortified wine department: cold duck, mad dog, night train, thunderbird, boone's farm.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Really shitty bands (ie n money) = Kestrel Lager.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

milwaukee best, not beer, maybe.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

red stripe seems about right, for jamaica fetishits.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks, you guys!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Pearl, for the non-gig-night watching TV in the house behind the house in Austin, TX.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Midwest nasty badness:

Falls City!!!
D'oh it must be Strohs!!!
Little Kings!!!
Black Cobra Malt Liquor!!! Cool name, but the stuff is malted lighter fluid.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

In Upstate NY, it was definitely PIELS LIGHT!!! The Official Beer Of Jim Brown. (One of the local punk rockers.)

It was the cheapest stuff on earth. Plus, it tasted the same coming up as it did going down, which was always a... erm... plus.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

LOST LAKE

SIDE POCKET

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Boone's Farm (and Ripple) were HIPPIE tipples, man!

Falstaff
Red White & Blue
Ballantine Ale
Schaefer
Rheingold
Mickey's Malt Liquor (wide mouth bottles!)

Kessler's (rotgut whiskey)

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Forgot about Little Kings Cream Ale "Cincinnati's Finest" (thanx earlnash) 55 cents a quart (Big Kings) in summer 1977.

Stroh's ruled the Detroit/Ann Arbor punk circuit but my circle drank the slighty more expensive Canadian beers like Labatt and Molson cause of the higher alcohol content.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe there might have been some indie love for

Genesee Cream Ale

in New Haven, CT.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

More Midwest:
Grain Belt Premium
Leinie's
Hamm's

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure some Louisville punks got down with some Sterling. The coolest thing about that beer was that they put Kentucky Derby winners on the can. The stuff tasted like it may have been brewed with some horsehide.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

NIGHT TRAIN and LITTLE KINGS shall be served at my funeral.

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Good to see Kestrel mentioned upthread.

In the UK in the late 70s, this was marketed under the slogan 'IT BITES!'. Seriously. And, by god, it did! My stomach is shrivelling just with the thought of it. UK brewers had apparently identified 'bite' as a desirable characteristic. Based on the example of Kestrel, this consisted of a bitter, gassy yellow brew with a strong metallic aftertaste. This nectar also came in an extra strength version, which I was never, ever thirsty enough to try.

I think part of the origin of 'Snakebite' was that, where the choice on draught was something like Kestrel and a sickly cider like Woodpecker, combining the two would result in a neutral tasting greenish colloid that provided rapid, effective relief from sobriety.

― Soukesian, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Meister Brau in New Brunswick, NJ.

― mike a, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

the BEAST (aka milwaukee's best)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck that shit, Pabst Blue Ribbion!
$3.99 per case

― PBR, Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Ribbion is obviously even more hardcore than the Ribbon variety

― PBR, Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember drinking mainly Olde English in NYC in the late '70s/early 80s. That sickly sweet bouquet mixed in with the wet paper bag smell.... sigh.

― Love at the Pier (Arthur), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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