Schlitz

[Obsessed]

I didn't know they still made Schlitz, but I recently saw it at the grocery store for $3.99 a six-pack, so of course I had to pick one up. (They also had Stroh's - remember the commercial with the guy crawling through the desert?)

Anyway, so I tried one, and, uh, well just one. I want to comply with the Terms of Usage, so let's just say that the stuff is low-grade pee-pee. Was it always this bad, or has my taste simply become more sophisitcated?

Now, mind you, if I saw a six-pack of Schlitz malt liquor, I might have to try that as well. "Don't say beer say bull . . ."

[blackdog1101]

I think the mods should lock this thread now. This section is supposed to be about gentlemanly indulgences, not about self harm.

[Obsessed]

I think the mods should lock this thread now. This section is supposed to be about gentlemanly indulgences, not about self harm.

[Bobtrumpet]

Schlitz . . . how the mighty have fallen.

I remember a place near my freshman dorm where they served Schlitz light and dark on tap. I spent way too much time there playing pinball and moneyball and consuming numerous mugs of Schlitz dark (and some light, too). I really liked the Schlitz bite that the other popular domestics didn't seem to have - at least to me.

"The beer that made Milwaukee famous" . . . rest in peace.

[garyg]

Ah, from me youth, Strohs when brewed in the Motor City did had the most distinctive taste, we used to rent a bus to travel to the old Stroh's brewery once a year for a tour & some trash & trinkets they handed out .. plus free beer!

[mmack66]

Apparently it is being made with the old Schlitz formula. I guess that stuff wasn't any good either. Most, if not all, of the mass produced American beer is suitable only for getting a drunk on.

[DunEdinRanger]

I didn't know they still made Schlitz, but I recently saw it at the grocery store for $3.99 a six-pack, so of course I had to pick one up. (They also had Stroh's - remember the commercial with the guy crawling through the desert?)

Anyway, so I tried one, and, uh, well just one. I want to comply with the Terms of Usage, so let's just say that the stuff is low-grade pee-pee. Was it always this bad, or has my taste simply become more sophisitcated?

Now, mind you, if I saw a six-pack of Schlitz malt liquor, I might have to try that as well. "Don't say beer say bull . . ."

Schlitz.

Ballantine. Rheingold. Pabst Blue Ribbon. All beers that fell for one reason or another.

I haven't had Schlitz in a while, but would like to think my palate is more sophisticated, for example DFH Palo Santo Marron.

Carling Black Label. If you ever see that just stay away!! I almost died after drinking that. The natural gases vented would have made a skunk smell to high heaven in comparison.

[theperfectstorm]

I love the part where people are surprised that crap is actually crap. Yeah, it's crap. But even crap has its uses.

I hope--strike that--I never will get so old, so middle-class, so stratified, so self-satisfied (just speaking about myself) that once a year I can't skip out on work and enjoy a cold 40 oz. Malt Liquor on the hood of my car in some park down by the river.

[Sluggo]

Don't knock it until you try it!!! It is the beer that made Milwaukee famous and it is the formula from the 1800s (not the 1980s). It is pretty good, to me it is like a mixture of half bud lite and half bud heavy.

[DunEdinRanger]

Don't knock it until you try it!!! It is the beer that made Milwaukee famous and it is the formula from the 1800s (not the 1980s). It is pretty good, to me it is like a mixture of half bud lite and half bud heavy.

Was that supposed to be a compliment?

[Brodirt]

Schlitz.

Ballantine. Rheingold. Pabst Blue Ribbon. All beers that fell for one reason or another.

All 3 still readily available, and if you drink them now and compare them to the dreck that comes from the big brewers they are excellent beers.

[garyg]

Mabel, Black Label .. I actually worked at the Carling Brewery in Cleveland maybe 1969 or 1970. As an outside contractor. The Carling boys, members of the Operating Engineers Union I think, all had beer priviledges, meaning they carried jars around & drew off when they wanted.

[Wilpar76]

Ah, good memories. While it worked at the time, by today's standards it is swill. I used to drink Schlitz in college because it was ridiculously cheap. After the first two or three, the taste didn't matter any more.

I will add that at one time, it was considered to by quite the high brow beer. My grandmother reminisced with me about times when Schlitz, Naty Boh, and Miller High Life (not the current incantation of it) were kings of the land.

Glad I wasn't around for that -

[Straight Arrow]

I know it's not high brow stuff but I think an ice cold can of it washes down bar-b-q like nothing else.

[Sluggo]

How can you go wrong with Schlitz...its motto is Go for the Gusto!!!

[nikkuchan]

That stuff gives me the Schlitz.

[Brodirt]

Gents...beer snob that I am, I must admit that I enjoy PBR in a bottle with BBQ like nothing else.

[The Nid Hog]

Two words: Iron City

[The Knize]

Gents...beer snob that I am, I must admit that I enjoy PBR in a bottle with BBQ like nothing else.

I would say that I am pretty much of a beer snob, too, but I like a PBR myself.

I guess I had a strong interest in beer even as a teenager, but I remember when Schlitz was a strong second in beer sales behind Bud, with Miller High Life in third.

I sure to remember when Schlitz changed its formula and started making real crap, then ran the worst ad campaign in the history, the notorious "drink Schlitz or I will kill you." The fastest down fall of a major brand I have ever seen.

I guess I would be interested in the new stuff that supposedly replicates the only formula. I remember liking Schlitz, but liking Bud better, and thinking Bud was more distinctive. Miller had its own flavor and we went through a big Miller phase fourth year undergrad. Also, at one point in senior year of high school we went through a big Schlitz Malt Liquor phase. SML seemed to taste really good back then. I had one recently and it was just horrible. Carling Black Label was awful, bitter, weird. Amazing that it sold at all. Reingold seemed pretty bad, although one of my friends fathers drank it. Ballantines was kind of intense. It was probably good beer.

Stroh's was distinctive, too, when it first came in. Actually I first had it visiting friends at other colleges. It seemed quite good.

Of course, this was around the time that Coors became such a cult item.

[Obsessed]

Two words: Iron City

Wow, haven't heard that one in a while. That stuff makes it all the way down south?