Remembering the "Old Man Beers" of my youth

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55Redneck said:
Grolsch=Nectar of the Gods. My absolute favourite beer, EVER! As far as I know (up here in Canada) it hasn't changed one bit in the 25+years I've been drinking it. Come to think of it, it's been a while. I think I need to pick some up. It ain't cheap up here though. ;)
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Available, briefly afaik, in my area, but not sampled by me as my party days ended some time previously.
 
barefootbrew said:
The best thing about Grolsch were their caps. Some of you probably know why.
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Back when, GIs in Germany would recycle the single use rubber seals as grip bands for their Zippo lighters to make them easier to use, and prevent them from sliding out of the diobolically designed self-emptying front pockets of the old olive drab fatigue trousers.
 
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I knew the late brewmaster Hans Kestler. He told me when he was hired by Miller they had a yeast collection that went back to the 1850's. Countless beers that came and went over the decades were in that massive collection. On the Monday he first reported for work he was shocked to discover the Miller bean-counters had thrown away the entire collection over the past weekend. He was furious they'd done that without bothering to tell anybody in advance or even getting permission from their superiors. By the time he discovered it the damage was done and couldn't be undone. It was one of the reasons he was at Miller for such a short time. Hans was a walking encyclopedia of brewing knowledge.

Prior to his retirement Hans was the brewmaster at Huber Brewing Company. Huber was a contract brewer that made a handful of different varieties that were sold under hundreds of labels across the USA. Depending upon the customers the exact same beer was dirt cheap under one label and quite pricey under another. I was a salesman for their main distributor for a while several years ago. I learned that many times what's on the label isn't what's really in the bottle or can.
 
BobbyBluz said:
I knew the late brewmaster Hans Kestler. He told me when he was hired by Miller they had a yeast collection that went back to the 1850's. Countless beers that came and went over the decades were in that massive collection. On the Monday he first reported for work he was shocked to discover the Miller bean-counters had thrown away the entire collection over the past weekend. He was furious they'd done that without bothering to tell anybody in advance or even getting permission from their superiors. By the time he discovered it the damage was done and couldn't be undone. It was one of the reasons he was at Miller for such a short time. Hans was a walking encyclopedia of brewing knowledge.

Prior to his retirement Hans was the brewmaster at Huber Brewing Company. Huber was a contract brewer that made a handful of different varieties that were sold under hundreds of labels across the USA. Depending upon the customers the exact same beer was dirt cheap under one label and quite pricey under another. I was a salesman for their main distributor for a while several years ago. I learned that many times what's on the label isn't what's really in the bottle or can.
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"Gone corporate."
GE pulled the same stunt with RCAs archives when they acquired them, a convoy of private vehicles of enployees saved what they could.
 
Grampa's fridge always had this one.
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This one was the Pride of Cleveland
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