Very Important Day In History

[litl rooster]

GOT

BEER?

[Texas Lawdog]

Rooster,  It's a little too early for a beer.   The first 10 years that I was a cop, I always worked nights.  After work, It was a cold beer before I went to sleep in the morning along with some cold pizza.

[Tensleep]

Sulphur Springs is better known for the large number of dairys in the county.

In 1970, Hopkins County Texas had more Grade A dairies in the county than the entire state of Wisconsin.

[Delmonico]

You ever drink any water from there?

No, just one of the beers.   Tasted kinda like I cleaned my Sharps cases in it.

Oh, didn't have time to post this but TLD, try the beer from the can in the glass, I seemed to not be able to tell when I pored it in when I drank it.  The use shellac or something to seel the inside of the can, I think the taste comes from the bare out side where you put you mouth.

Funny thing about beer and taste.  Liked the green bottle Dutch stuff, also used to drink a lot of Moosehead from up north.  The big mainstream ones like Bud, PBR, Miller and stuff was ok, but some of the cheaper ones like Hamns, Falstaff, Old Mill and Black Label, I liked better than the others, not all cheap beer, just those 4.  Used to buy a Mex beer sometimes, not that stuff everyone putls lime chunks in, but Catre Blanca, (sp)  Never seen that other one till recent years after I quit.  Don't understand though, if the stuff needs lime in it to be fit to drink, why don't they add it at the brewery?

[Texas Lawdog]

Miller has come out with a new beer that has lime and salt added.  It's packaged in a green bottle. I haven't tried any, not much of a Miller drinker.

[Arcey]

What I've asked Andi 'bout the Corona she buys.....

The sailboat racin' crowd I used ta hang with. Ya'd visit a boat at the marina, open the cooler 'n that's all that'd be in there, Corona. Limes 'n a cuttin' block nearby sided by an assortment of cheeses 'n Jimmy Buffet stuff playin' in the background. Like they were afraid to deviate from the uniform code. Ya'd pour a Coors Light inta a plastic cup so they didn't know whut ya were drinkin'.

On shore, durin' the parties, they didn't have a problem staggerin' up ta the Bud truck for free beer. Then again I didn't either.

[Texas Lawdog]

They came out with Coors Light in Texas about 1974.  You could only bet it on tap or in the can.  I started drinking it about then and did for several years until it gave me a headache.  By that time Bud light had come out and I went back to drinking Bud again. I could never pass up Free beer, especially Bud. I drink Tecate and Corona sometimes when we eat at a Mexican food restaurant.  We had our honeymoon in San Antonio, and we took tours of the Pearl and Lone Star breweries.  The draft beer wasn't too bad and it was cold. The stuff in the cans and bottles taste awful.

[Silver Creek Slim]

The secret's in the water, Del. Sorta like not drinkin' down stream from the herd. Myself, I've gotten hooked on some beer from Slim's neck of the woods. Chippewa Falls to be exact. not a huge brewer, just started to be available in this area this summer. Got a tongue for it when we was visiting up in Milwaukee, Wissycoooonsin. Jacob Leinenkugel Brewery. they make lagers, wheat beers, and some interesting seasonals, including one that has berry juice in it. didn't think I'd like that one, but it is good. My two favorites are the Honeyweiss and Oktoberfest..............Buck

Since 1867. 
Used ta live in the area.

Slim

[Arcey]

Was hot, sweaty 'n tired once. Someone gave me a bottle of Sam Adams. It was good.

In different circumstances, I used it for a drain cleaner. The stuff is awful.

[Delmonico]

Used to get some called Shaffers on sale, cheap, was ok, not real good, stuff sat in the can and sounded like a bowl of Rice Crispies with the milk poured on it, a beer with a snap, crackle and pop.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Del, I got try some Falstaff before they disappeared. To my taste, it was better than Coors and Olympia. These beers weren't available around here in the late '70's and early '80's. My partner's wife was out west for an insurance convention and brought the stuff back with her.............Buck

[Delmonico]

T'was brewed right up the road in Omaha, last i knew the brewery was still for sale, drank a lot of it, imported beer ya know, imported from Omaha.

That made one in the early 80's a small run type stuff, a bit different, for some fund raiser deal.  PJ's choice, drank some to say I had, PJ Morgan was Omaha's mayor at the time, created a big stink, namin' a beer after the mayor, but was for some good cause.

[Ozark Tracker]

when I was in College, the second year, moved off campus, one of my roommates had a brother-in-law who was the local Coors Distributor in Stillwater,  He would call us every Monday and tells us to come on down and get some Coors,  we'd drive down there and he would absolutely fill the car with them Tall Boy Coors, 20 cases wasn't unusual,  all we had to do was bring the empty cans back,   we'd have a big party every week with what he gave us.  found out later on in the year, they were discontinueing the Tall Boys and Coors was giving him his money back on em if he'd send in the crushed cans.

we sure lucked out that year.

[Tensleep]

Back in my college days we drank most ennything but Sterno an' Aqua Velva....

Best beer we could get was a local down south from us called Shiner. Made in Shiner Texas, sometimes could get it for 69 cents fer six, almost always six for 99 cents.

Been discovered now... when Bucksaw was down there in school Shiner had become Yuppie beer.

He's ah good lad, usually brought me some whenever he came home.

[Arcey]

Used ta go ta a place whut weren't real safe fer kids my color. Charged ya out the butt but no questions asked. Best I know they never were busted. Used to ride by lookin' fer kids leavin' with a package. Never caught one.

Used ta move cars from Carolina to Norfolk for Susie's daddy. 18 was legal in Carolina. Those Buicks 'n Opals always went by 2102 Abbey Road for a drop off before they made it to Brud Buick. 

[Ozark Tracker]

Arcey, we used to have a place like that back in high school  cept it was a whole town, just go to the joint and ease in the back door,  Mr. Jeff McHenry would sell ya all you want, but don't think about drinking it in Redbird, Ok.  just get the beer and  drive on back to Porter to drink it.

you know it was funny back then, the police we had didn't care if you sat up by the drive in and drink a beer or 2, he just didn't want ya out driving around and drinking.   

worked fer us in them days.

[Arcey]

That wuz seedy ole Merrimac Market almost in the middle ah town. No bigger'n a 7-11 'n no parkin' lot. Place was always filthy. Gone now. Whole areas been redeveloped.

I'd see a car parked with ah bunch ah male kids in it I knew whut they were doin'. Didn't fiddle with 'em. They were there the next time I rode by I'd run 'em away.

Male/female lookin' for a spot ta make the beast with two backs was different. We'd had some rapes from that 'n some pretty bad beat up boyfriends.

They put their clothes back tagether 'n left that was the end of it. A few had some lip, includin' the girls, they wound up in custody 'n explainin' ta Momma why she had to come get 'em from the Youth Bureau then take a day off work ta go ta Juvenile Court. Lord knows I hated Juvie Court.

[Texas Lawdog]

It was 18 in Kansas when I went to Panhandle State in the Oklahoma Panhandle.  We went to the Pizza Hutmand had Pizza and Beer on Friday or Sat night.  It was 3.2, hey it was better than nuthin.  We used to get Schlitz for 99 cents a six pack.  Oklahoma was also 3.2, but you had to be 21.  If you wanted 6%, you had to go to a regular liquor store and buy it.  It was hot, no coolers.

[Delmonico]

Buck, I thought about that last night, remember when folks brought Coors back from CO, never ever thought about anyone takin' Falstaff to Ohio.

[Texas Lawdog]

We had Falstaff in Oklahoma back then and Jax also.  Hamms, Pabst, Carling Black Label, adn Country Club malt liquor in the small cans about the size of a beeny weines can.