Friday, March 27, 2026

Always Innovating

 


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  1. I hear Bud used to have one you could open with long fingernails.

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  2. In 1968, in Vietnam, we'd get Schiltz beer in rusty steel cans.

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  3. 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.

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  4. 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).

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  5. I remember buying greasy-dick beer.

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    1. I believe that was an East Coast regional beer.

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    2. Iron City would brew oddly named beers. "Old Frothingslosh" was one I remember. It most likely was just Iron City under that name.

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    3. 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.

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    4. 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.

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