When I was a youngster growing up in the NYC area there were many local breweries. From 1969 until 2000 I traveled to all 50 states and many countries in my business career.
Recently, I was at a bar having a beer when another fellow about my age sat down and ordered a beer. We began to talk about the "good old days" when there were many different breweries and beer did not taste the same. We began to go over local beers that were around back then most of which don't exist now. Some of those mentioned werea:
Recently, I was at a bar having a beer when another fellow about my age sat down and ordered a beer. We began to talk about the "good old days" when there were many different breweries and beer did not taste the same. We began to go over local beers that were around back then most of which don't exist now. Some of those mentioned werea:
- Ballantine
- Rheingold
- Piels
- Blatz
- Schaeffer
- Lone Star (is this one still around?)
- Cinci
- Duquense
- Hamms
- Point Beer (from Stevens Point - may still be around).
- Carlings
- Falstaff
- Naragansett (Is this still around?)
- Bohack (for one grocery chain in the NYC area)
- Rocky Mountain
- Strohs Fire Brew beer (Pabst bought the out.)
- Yankee Beer from Dubuque Iowa (the smallest brewery I ever saw.)
- Schmidt's
- Esslinger
- Kruegger
- Frommer
- Grain Belt
- Menominee
- Atlantic
- Reading
- Ortleibs
- Black Label
- Iron City
