And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
When I was in Vietnam we used the traditional church key. The company would occasionally have a cookout and they would get a trailer and filled with American beer. They also had bought a pallet load of Korean Crown beer. The next morning the crown was the one brand left. They finally hauled it to the dump. Great times for sure.
Blatz beer was the cheapest and wasn't bad back in my youth when you could buy beer when you were 18 years old or younger (because no one checked and no one cared).
Living in Minnesota in the early 1970's, I'd get three cases of Pfeiffer beer for $20...That comes out to $0.27 each bottle. I am pretty sure that they made the $hit with formaldehyde. You'd get a buzz that evening and a massive hangover the next morning.
Pittsburgh Brewing (Iron City) at one time made a bunch of different label beers. Some that I remember besides Old Frothingslosh were Old Dutch, Old German, Sierra. They even made special runs for anyone who would contract for a certain number of cases. Gateway Clipper Fleet Beer comes to mind. BTW, Iron City had the world's first pull tab can. It was a collaboration between them and Alcoa, whose tech center was in a Pittsburgh suburb.
Used to love taking those steel cans and breaking them in half by denting them in the center and flexing them back and forth. Then fitting the top half into bottom half and pressing it down to make a half height can. I’d then put a firecracker in the open end and turn it over and light the fuse. The bottom half would then shoot into the air to about the height of a telephone pole. Great fun.
I hear Bud used to have one you could open with long fingernails.
ReplyDeleteIn 1968, in Vietnam, we'd get Schiltz beer in rusty steel cans.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in Vietnam we used the traditional church key. The company would occasionally have a cookout and they would get a trailer and filled with American beer. They also had bought a pallet load of Korean Crown beer. The next morning the crown was the one brand left. They finally hauled it to the dump. Great times for sure.
ReplyDeleteBlatz beer was the cheapest and wasn't bad back in my youth when you could buy beer when you were 18 years old or younger (because no one checked and no one cared).
ReplyDeleteI remember buying greasy-dick beer.
ReplyDeleteI believe that was an East Coast regional beer.
DeleteIron City would brew oddly named beers. "Old Frothingslosh" was one I remember. It most likely was just Iron City under that name.
DeleteLiving in Minnesota in the early 1970's, I'd get three cases of Pfeiffer beer for $20...That comes out to $0.27 each bottle. I am pretty sure that they made the $hit with formaldehyde. You'd get a buzz that evening and a massive hangover the next morning.
DeletePittsburgh Brewing (Iron City) at one time made a bunch of different label beers. Some that I remember besides Old Frothingslosh were Old Dutch, Old German, Sierra. They even made special runs for anyone who would contract for a certain number of cases. Gateway Clipper Fleet Beer comes to mind. BTW, Iron City had the world's first pull tab can. It was a collaboration between them and Alcoa, whose tech center was in a Pittsburgh suburb.
DeleteUsed to love taking those steel cans and breaking them in half by denting them in the center and flexing them back and forth. Then fitting the top half into bottom half and pressing it down to make a half height can. I’d then put a firecracker in the open end and turn it over and light the fuse. The bottom half would then shoot into the air to about the height of a telephone pole. Great fun.
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