Yankee famouse announcer Mel Allen was supposedly jammed up for being drunk on the air because they had a working Ballentine tap in the booth and he would do on air commercials using the tap to fill a glass with beer

Nice little story. Thank you for sharing.

@@waynerogers6621 That's part of what made Mel an icon for Yankee fans! 7th inning, the fans all stretched. 7th inning, Mel hit the floor!

My cousins grew up in the South Bronx and being true Puerto Ricans they were diehard Mets fans! I know it's strange to have Mets fans in the middle of the Bronx, but it makes sense. The Yankees didn't hire Puerto Rican players, but the Mets certainly did! I'm from Brooklyn anyway and the Dodgers left before I was born so I'll never root for the Yankees. I'll root for Boston before I root for the Yankees. My aunt and uncle had beer mugs surgically attached to their hands and Shaefer was the beer they drank!

@caruchan2367 my little league team went to the Polo grounds in 62 or 63 to watch the Mets play the Cubs. Highlight ernie Banks hit a homerun The Mets were an embarrassment back then, God awful

still can buy Hamms in West Virginia

Loved those hamms bear toons as a kid in 70s. I had one of those light up hamms signs in my room for years til it got lost in a couple of moves. Still available in my town.

Here in Michigan also.

Hamms is available in Pittsburgh, PA so it must be making a comeback. I love that it is just as good as some of the national brands and only costs $16 for a 30/pk. It is great on a hot day

You can purchase Hamm’s in Nebraska as well.

The Hamms Bear gets mentioned in that old David Frizell tune, I’m Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home.

Hamm's had the greatest beer too. 🍺

"Hamms, the beer refreshing..."

Bud Man could kick his butt.

Utica Club beer's mascots were Schultz and Dooley, an homage to two of the biggest ethnic groups in Upstate NY!

Schaefers was disgusting. So was Stroh's and Carling Black Label. I didn't mind Falstaff. Coors has always sucked except for the short-lived Nordic Wolf. Another stinker was Ballantine.

@Anaris10 I had friends who worked for Schaefer in allentown pa. Then it was bought by Strohs and now I have no idea if it's still open

@@Anaris10 What's with the negative waves, Moriarty? Just some random person relating their stories and you gotta take a dump on 'em? 🙃

​@@waynerogers6621 Samuel Adams bought the brewery in Fogelstown near rt 100 and 78

Me too

Or whatever was cheap. When you’re 17 and didn’t have much money you got what you could afford.

Carling Black Label was my old man's fave.

The great advantage of having grandparents that owned a tavern was that I got to sample not only beer from an early age but also Irish coffee, wine, and an occasional mixed drink. I even had my own "nickel beer" glass which I have kept in all my 75 years. Now i know what you are thinking, but as an adult i drink only on occasion and usually accompanied with food. I had some wilder times in college, but my grandparents taught me to respect beer and spirits saying that they can either warm your spirits or burn your life down. The choice is yours, not the liquors. I enjoy having a drink, but I know that two is enough. I thank my grandparenst and parents for taking the mystery out of booze by allowing me to have it in my own home. Therefore I did not have the desire to sneak it as a teenager.

I can still remember the 'think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer' commercial. It was regional for NYS an PA.

My favorite beer ever!

69¢ a quart at The Plaid Pantry in Milwaukie.

I saw a billboard for Griesedieck near Pittsburgh, Penn. in the '50's, as we were on a trip to slaughterfields of the War Between the States. I was shocked by the name....still am. What a hoot.

A tavern in South Chicago had Bohemian Club at a quarter a schooner - I liked it and used to buy a case of quarts!

My dad used to sing hey Mabel get of the table the 5 bucks is for the beer

In the fifties Knickerbocker sponsored the Giants and Schaeffer's the Dodgers.

Yes, Budweiser, Miller, Coors, Michelob, Heineken, Amstel Light. It's not your fault they came up with better beers than what you used to drink. I remember a different Rheingold song: My beer is Rheingold the dry beer. Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer. Don't remember the rest or maybe that was it.

My brothers and I camped out in our youth. I remember that Schaeffer’s was quite inexpensive. But my friend’s dad would keep ten cases of Wisconsin Club in his basement. On sale they were $3.99 a case of bottles. At age 16 I lived in England for a year. You could get a ploughman’s lunch in a pub for about 60¢. That was a slab of cheddar (from Cheddar) a pat of butter, two slices of french bread and a pint of bitters, plus a pickled onion. I can still taste the after burp.

@@kennethpriestman4255 "It's not bitter, not sweet, it's the dry flavored treat, won't you try, Extra Dry Rheingold Beer"

@@dontrapani7778 I think you guys have some years on me. ha ha

I came here to say that...

With the accent on “gan”

Thank you 🎉

Drove me nuts he was saying it wrong I kept yelling your saying it wrong 😂

technically it is known as nastygansett, but whatever...

She must have been a real hottie!

There was a Rhinegold truck in "The Godfather".

@@RBAILEY57 Interesting. Haven't seen that movie in a long time. I'll be able to spot the Rheingold truck immediately next time I watch. My grandparents had a room dedicated to my grandma's modeling work and there was a crapload of Rheingold stuff in there.

It's in the scene where Sonny beats up Carlo. It's a hot afternoon, and there are kids playing around an open fire hydrant.

@@RBAILEY57 There's backstory to that scene. You note that "Sonny" throws a few punches that go a mile wide in that they miss "Carlo" yet Carlo reacts as if they connected. Why ? Because James Caan found out what a punk Gianni Russo really was as he was sexually harassing one of the actresses and she came and told Caan about it. So in the first take of the scene Caan really kicked the snot out of him, broke 2 of his ribs and chipped his tooth with the trash can/lid. After a week of recovery, Russo, after much coaxing by Coppola, agreed to shoot the re-take and again Caan really popped him and Russo was doing everything not to get hit again. The final take used was an edited mix of Russo and a stuntmen who had to be brought in as Russo refused to get hit by Caan anymore. if you watch again you will see the mile wide miss.

I remember grainbelt because when they went out of business the local distributor bought 6 railcars of it .we could get a 6 pack for. 69 cents or a case for $2.69 all of us teenagers had a great summer 1978.

I've never found a beer I liked better than Black Label

You're making my mouth water.

​@@larry3064 black label is pretty good beer

Touborg Gold.

They're also right about the light beer market that exploded. Old school brewers apparently didn't take it seriously and lost a large market share in an extremely competitive industry.

So many brands went to Pabst to disappear.

You got the mergers and acquisitions because Budweiser and Miller low balled them into bankruptcy. It was aggressive business practices that killed American beer.

@@bartdrennon1764 The acquisitions then reduced production/availability while adding availability/marketing of the lite beer swill to the bread and circus crowd, killed these brands. Globalist corporations killed these brands, not the consumer. They were driven like the sheep they are.

Schiltz have a gun to your Dad's head ?

@@dcasper8514 no, it was just the next cheapest. 😆😆😆

My buddy and I always grab up some Hamms when we go to the Indy 500

DRANK SCHLITZ IN COLLEGE 72 74

@@kevinkranz9156 Good stuff . I was stealng my dads lost strays from him while he grilled . I was just a kid but I liked the taste of that beer . It had character unlike others he occasionally drank . By the time I was an adult though , Schlitz had already blown itself up

I'll look for that just for a nostalgia trip. Not a big beer drinker, but I did drink a lot of Schlitz from '64 to the early '70s when it seemed to lose all it's flavor. Nowadays it's good scotch for me! 😊

@@ptournas They tried to react to the popularity of Budweiser’s cheap beer by changing their excellent but costlier recipe and it was disastrous . Schlitz dud not need to worry about Busch putting them out of business . They managed it themselves

Right! It was my favorite. The change in recipe killed it. But it was Budweiser and Miller's aggressive business practices that drove them to change.

Rolling Rock was great beer.

​@@dew02300still is!❤

@@dew02300 Still available. No longer brewed in Latrobe, PA but by A-B InBev in New Jersey.

@@pb68slab18 I know. But all it is now is a name on a bottle, or I should say can. I don’t think they have bottles anymore.

@@dew02300 They still have 12oz longnecks, and 7oz 'Pony' bottles too. A case of 24 12oz bottles is $5 more than 30pak of 12oz or 24pak of 16oz cans though.

Canadian beers back then never gave a hangover. Years later I found out why . The big brand US beers would use formaldehyde to jumpstart the fermentation process for production sake.

OR the fact that some of these beers are readily available in the beverage section of your local Walmart. The Blatz I'm drinking now tastes pretty damn good considering it was eventually "phased out in the '90s".🙄

@frankgerace5997 - The correct pronunciation is........Nastygansett! Used to buy that swill for .96 a 6 pack in Bangor, Me. while in college!

@@Loulovesspeed I’m aware of the pronunciation, and you’ll like this-a year or so ago, I made plans to visit my cousin and her husband to watch “Jaws,” and in honor of the movie, my cousin’s husband was able to get Narragansett beer in 1975-style cans!!

@@frankgerace5997 Wow! That's cool!

True

Me either.....All the new "hard seltzers" suck too.

Son in law drinks Busch light swill I usually grab anything else in the fridge. Luckily there's usually a Corona that my daughter likes.

I would say the consumer was given little choice on taste as the marketing drove lite beer into their weak minds.

@@waynerogers6621 ..... ??? ..... and Corona isn't swill ?? ......sounds like a WHOLE family of losers ......

I don't think it had much to do with them no longer wanting taste, what they didn't want was excess weight!

Old Style is my favorite beer to simmer brats in.

As I mentioned above, Rolling Rock is still out there. It's now owned by A-B and brewed in NJ. Funny, InBev bought R-R, then sold it to A-B, then InBev bought A-B!

How about Lone star beer of texas??? And colt 45 beer

@@josephcontreras8930 If I remember correctly, Lone Star is also now owned by Pabst. Growing up in SE Texas in the late 1960s, early 1970s, Lone Star was one of the low priced beer sold. I don't think it really took off until "Lone Star Beer & Bob Wills Music" was released around 1976. If you look up Lone Star Beer, you will see it was originally founded by Adolphus Busch. It is now owned by Pabst and produced by the Miller Brewing Company in Fort Worth.

​@@josephcontreras8930Colt 45 called itself a malt liquor.

Any one recall "Old Shale Ale" ?

Last I heard Miller bought them out then they disappeared. Light and dark were a top notch brew in the ‘70’s

@terryjames548 thanks! 💖

Dark was delicious. I want a sixxer now!!!

"Let it be Lowenbrau"

The real Lowenbrau is made in Germany. I think they may have licensed the name to Miller or something, but it could never compare to the real German import.

Not quite, you're about two decades off. Consider the thirteen years between the 18th and 21st amendments. Or google "how prohibition affected American breweries"

In northeren california we have hundreds of micro breweries

Let's hear it for Oertel's 92. A great old Louisville beer!

They need to learn to pronounce it correctly. NarraGANsett, not NaRRAgansett

The 1890s recipe Narragansett is back from a craft brewer in Providence and is highly rated.

PBR Extra is 6.5%.

That's why they have malt liquor, son

A lot of beer is 3.2, or used to be. Canadian beer I always found better, for the most part, anyway.

Yes at least😅😅😅

I'm surprised they aren't putting female hormones in it now lol!!

I remember Stoney's beer brewed in Pittsburgh

@@bridgetmccracken1381 Stoney's was ok. I thought Duke was better. Just my opinion.

@@Tomatohater64 I liked the jingle and actual song for Stoney's lol. Bet I have a beer you never heard of...Indian Beer brewed in Indiana, PA

@@bridgetmccracken1381 You're right; never heard of it.

have a duke , have a duke , have a duquesne beer !

My family owes its success to the Greisedieck Brothers. My grandparents were immigrants from Italy He was working in the coal mines of south central Illinois and he noticed that the miners would always stop for a shot and a beer before and after work for fifteen cents. He was shoveling coal 10 hours a day six days a week for less than 40 dollars a week. So he and a friend turned an old miners "shotgun house" into a bar and had it put on a flatbed wagon and hauled to a downtown lot. His partner left and by now grandfather had two boys and was walking from a house near the mine where he once worked to and from town that was three miles away. He decided to go to the Greisedieck Brothers for a loan to build a tavern with a three bedroom home on the top. In return he would agree to sell only their products until the loan was paid off. This was sometime before WWI and by 1921 he had three boys and had made enough money to take a 2nd class cabin on the Olympic, the only surviving sister ship of the Titanic, to Italy so his relatives could see how prosperous he was. When prohibition started he opened up a clothing store but had a speakeasy in the basement. A street wise customer would come in and ask for something in a size 42 men's suit, They were on the clothes rack that hid the basement door. He made enough money from that tavern to not only pay off the mortgage but put my father and two uncles through college during the Depression. My Dad became doctor, my uncle Leo an insurance executive, and my Uncle Jim a Lt. Colonel in the Air Force Reserve and a mortician. All of the five of the 6 grandkids have college degrees as do all of their great grandchildren. My grandparents operated the tavern from 1913 or so until his death in 1963 when my grandmother rented out the bar while still living in the apartment until her death in 1977 at the age of 93. The bar and grill is still in business and it is owned by a high school classmate of mine who proudly features a picture of my grandparents behind the bar serving my great- grandfather and some customers on the morning that prohibition ended. The bar and grill is called 'Lumpys" and is in Gillespie IL.

I have a large cooler from griesedieck. It belonged to my uncle, who was a traveling vaudeville performer. He said most of the entertainers drank a lot of the time. I was too young to ever try it, but he said it was the best, especially if he could not get whisky.

@@billgrandone3552 Great comment!

​@@scarharting5577 Glad you liked my beer comment . Sorry to have taken so long to respond but I was in the hospital with a collapsed lung. NO WAY to spend my 50th Wedding Anniversary.

Stag is still available in the St. Louis area as well as Little Rock.

Called growlers now

Hudepol was great for the money.

"Have a Hudy!" Cincy had great beers. Burger and Wiedemann as well.

Falstaff was my father's favorite beer, until they stopped making it & switched to Michelob. 🍺

My dad worked for the Falstaff brewery in St. Louis, they didn't give away free cases of beer to the public.

Anchor was popular in Asia back in the 90s.

@@MuzixMaker Two different beers and breweries.

Andeker and Erlanger were delicious. One of the first beers I had when I was underage.

Anchor Steam only closed in 2023, still indy, I think. The CEO of Chobani yogurt will be trying to resurrect it.

Didn't Lucky Lager print rebus puzzles under the bottle cap?

Ha ha ha ha ha

Was it still cheap? 🤣

Philo bedo disagrees! (YES, IT IS HORRIBLE. )

@@carlschildtknecht762 Artesian dolls have interesting anatomy

I remember people smuggling Olympia and Busch into Oklahoma. I always wondered why they bothered.

Schlitz Malt... we went thru kegs of that stuff...

@@MaryBrownForFreedom watch out for the bull

Philly beer I think. Use to give me a headache

@@waynerogers6621 Actually Milwaukee. It may have been good at one time, but by the time I was old enough to drink, it was so weak and watery, it couldn't even form a head.

There was a Schlitz brewery on Woodman Ave here in the San Fernando Valley (SoCal) back in the day. My uncle was the manager.

Still around in the northeast.

​@@greggross8856 I drank Schlitz from the time I was old enough to drink, well, actually from 16, when I looked old enough to to drink and got into bars to see my musician friends with an altered ID. That was in 1964. It definitely changed in the early 1970s and I no longer cared for it all. Never was a big beer drinker anyways preferred scotch, but it was a little too expensive for me back then, and I didn’t care for cheap scotch.

My Grandpa's FAVORITE Iron City, and he knew his beer 😂

Iron City is still brewed in the Pittsburgh metro area.

Little Kings and 7 oz baby Miller's on ice sure slid down smooth...

@@edwardwilliams3185 But the main thing was staying completely out of trouble. Did not get arrested, or fight, or worse, shot. All we did was hop a fence and pick up about twenty empty beer bottles. This was back in the 3.2 beer day, drinking water, but getting charged for beer prices. You're right, it was pretty smooth. What was also smooth was buying the beer before you were eighteen. Kids can't do that today since the radar is a lot stronger, and cameras are all over the store. Innocent days are truly over.

Little Kings made me fall off the floor once. I kept slipping off the armchair so I sat on the floor. I kept falling down. If I would have drank a few more I might have fallen off the earth. 😂

@@Reubenhubert You can never call women weak, simply because a few of them were strong enough to drag you to the bed and load you into it. It's funny how they always moved their precious stuffed animals before they did so. They would rather have hurt you than their furry friends. lol!

I like the golden cream ale

Is Moosehead still in business?

@@floydblandston108 Still big in New Brunswick.

And not even US corporations. I wonder how folks would feel if they knew who owned Anheuser-Busch or Miller or Coors?

@@greggross8856 Bingo!

90% of American breweries died during prohibition. Only those with deep pockets survived by selling non-alcoholic products with much lower margins. Once the 21st amendment was ratified, the survivors faced significantly less competition with a thirsty nation to quench. American beer had already transitioned from a brewing business to a marketing business well before the 70s rolled around.

@@cazgerald9471 Go read up on distribution laws via Congress post prohibition. It is eye opening stuff. That is what has led to a few mega companies owning everything in the beer world. The too friendly relationship between government and business never ends well.

Same with filling stations, and every other consumer product. Monopolies are now bigger than their regulators (US Govt) and unless they kill someone, hands off. Biden has been the only POTUS to take on corporations.

I loved that Ballentine Ale. Even though i drank Schlitz back then.(60s & 70s).

I still drink Shafer to this day and yes I do remember Ballentine.

Didn't Hudepohl also make Burger Beer for a while? That was a good one!

​@@jvsmith7888 It's possible, I just don't remember that one.

Get nudey with with hudey

And it’s impossible for teenagers to buy cheap beer now.

Blatz was good with Boilermakers! 😮

Actually, it was Heilemann that bought them all up using junk bonds. Pabst swept them all up when Heilemann collapsed.

The special bar that you want to go to is Barney Beanery in West Hollywood, CA. Over 100 beers to choose from.

It's Drewrys and it's been reborn. Look it up.

@@scarharting5577 Thanks you made my day😁😁😁

Yep.....all our high school parties were half barrels of Schaefer cause it was dirt cheap.

Ditto in NYC; late 1950's and into the 60's.

Tiger head ale

We drank gallons of Genny Cream in the 70s.

@Reubenhubert The Green Death! I graduated from high school in 1974 and we wore Creamers '74 buttons!

Love Genny Cream Ale

Huedepohl and Burger were big in the Natty

We used to drink the hell out of little kings when I was young I wish they still made it

I drank many little kings while attending the U of C

We drank gallons of Little Kings in the 70’s. Once I drank so many 7oz bottles I fell off the floor. I kept falling out of an armchair so I sat on the floor. I couldn’t even sit there without falling over. Those were the days. 😂

We used to call them little killers.

It's still available in Virginia, not in many places, though.

Great beer back when OLYMPIA BREWED IT THEMSELVES! IT'S THE WATER ..

​​@@richarddouglas1712Tumwater, Washington!! Evel Kinevel used to pound Oly at the Freeway Tavern in Butte, Montana!

Remember the eighth of a keg called an Olyball??

We had Pearl here

Beer used to be more popular in the past, period . It used to be seen as a reward . Now its seen as a crutch by many people .

Quite a few recipe changes with buyouts.

Horrible now

I remember the "stubby" bottles. When talking with your hands you didn't have to worry about knocking them over like today's long necks!

Black Label is brewed in Canada

Rusty steel cans of Carling black label is all we had to drink at my base in Vietnam in 1969..

lone star beer is still around and very popular in Texas

Genesee is still going well in Northern NYS

And Altas

Buckhorn... god that stuff was awful! NASTY! Friends drank it except when we showed up with cases of Schell's Deer Beer

ME too.Had a neighbor we used to haul hay for who also worked at Lucky Lager.Good Times.

Not a sailor, then.

Black Label is my favorite

Yep, Carling Black Label. When my family moved into our new house back in 1977, it had a huge gameroom next to the basement. In the gameroom, there was a huge rotating, illuminated sign of Carling Black Label beer. Maybe two feet high by four feet long. I loved it.

I was stationed at ALAMEDA and would take liberty in FRISCO when in port and the BRAU-HAUS PUB at pier EMBARCADERO had Spaten and ANCHOR STEAM . Talking about a drunken sailor !!! 😂

Being from New 0:01 Orleans Jax was there.. it was kinda bitter to my taste. I didn't see Dixie mentioned in the video. Was Dixie sold in Texas. I personally never drank Dixie Beer until they had a sudden price reduction. BTW, before that I was very loyal to Falstaff.

@@possomslim3014 Don't remember seeing Dixie very often. At the time, the major brands seemed to be Schlitz, Falstaff, Jax and Pearl.

Ay!

Molson was the favorite of hosers Bob and Doug McKenzie.

If it was not shown on the video, I never would have figured what it was.

Nope.

Pabst still brews and sell many of those regional labels.

Yep. Generic beer was sold at Kroger (maybe elsewhere, too) in the early 80s when generic products were all in white packages with limited descriptions.

You got the deluxe version... one I tried was a plain aluminum can with beer in black letters on it LOL stuff was beyond nasty... bought a 6 pack, took 2 sips and gave the rest to friends who all took 2 sips... 6 cans got poured out and we drank just about anything back then! Schell's Deer Beer was popular with us because we could drive up to the brewery and get cases of shorts(bottles that weren't quite full, they were also not pasteurized so the flavor was better... sorta... it is was still called deer piss LOL ) for half price

@@MaryBrownForFreedom I like that one. " Deer Piss ". Thanks for the comments.

Cost cutter beer at Kroger's in the yellow cans.

Lucky was better than either, plus you got the 'sobriety test' bottle caps.

Haha Rainier had a good ad. Rayyyyyy Neeeer Beeeeeeeeeeeeer. In the sound of a motorcycle. Haha

Apparently boomers killed these brands. 1957 was the largest year of their births, and when they started buying beer they bought something else.