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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 21, 2024 19:28:27 GMT -5
There was also Bert and Harry Piel for, obviously, Piel's Beer. The wonderful comedy team of Bob and Ray.
"Piel's Real Draft. The kind of beer you first loved "
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 21, 2024 19:32:54 GMT -5
Hey rizzuto -- severely multi-tasking here -- watching your McNeese State squad in an uphill battle against Gonzaga. Isn't Lake Charles your hometown? How did they get to be called the Cowboys?
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 21, 2024 19:48:02 GMT -5
"Modelo Negra or Negra Modelo is a 5.4% abv Dunkel-style lager [19] first brewed in Mexico by Austrian immigrants, and was introduced as a draft beer in 1926.[20][21] Modelo Negra comes in an unusually shaped, wide brown bottle with a trademark gold label. Modelo Negra is most commonly served in 355ml glass bottles." "In May 2023, Modelo Especial became the top selling beer in the United States by retail sales volume, surpassing Bud Light. While both beers are owned by the same parent company outside of the United States, the Modelo brand is owned by Constellation Brands in the US and therefore is not affiliated with AB InBev.[7][8]" from wikipedia.com Bottom line...InBev profits from the sale of Modelo, making up for any loss in sales of Bud Light. Take that..."Kid Rock". BTW...the "boycott" revealed the demographics of Bud Light drinkers. No surprise there... Maybe I'm missing something, but Modelo is owned by Constellation and not affiliated with InBev. I found this in wikipedia.com: "On June 12, 2008, The Wall Street Journal stated that Anheuser-Busch InBev, which owned a non-controlling 50% stake in the company, might attempt to acquire the remaining 50%.[3] On June 29, 2012, it was announced that Anheuser-Busch InBev would acquire the remaining 50% stake for an all-cash price of $20.1 billion.[4] On January 31, 2013, the US Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit in an attempt to prevent the buyout. The matter was settled, and the two companies merged in June 2013,[5] with the transfer of all United States rights to Constellation Brands.[6] As a result, all the company's brands are made (in Mexico) by an unrelated company. In the United States, Grupo Modelo brands are distributed by Constellation Brands.
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 21, 2024 19:55:57 GMT -5
Hey rizzuto -- severely multi-tasking here -- watching your McNeese State squad in an uphill battle against Gonzaga. Isn't Lake Charles your hometown? How did they get to be called the Cowboys? No, I was raised in an unincorporated area called Florence, which is several miles south of a town called Gueydan, - comprised of about 1500 people - where I went to elementary and high school. Gueydan is about 60 miles east and south of Lake Charles and about 50 miles west and south of Lafayette, home of the UL Ragin' Cajuns. They were formerly the Bulldogs. No idea how McNeese became the Cowboys.
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 21, 2024 20:06:17 GMT -5
Hey rizzuto -- severely multi-tasking here -- watching your McNeese State squad in an uphill battle against Gonzaga. Isn't Lake Charles your hometown? How did they get to be called the Cowboys? No, I was raised in an unincorporated area called Florence, which is several miles south of a town called Gueydan, - comprised of about 1500 people - where I went to elementary and high school. Gueydan is about 60 miles east and south of Lake Charles and about 50 miles west and south of Lafayette, home of the UL Ragin' Cajuns. They were formerly the Bulldogs. No idea how McNeese became the Cowboys. Thanks for the geography lesson Rizz. March Madness always adds to my knowledge of geography and college mascots. BTW completely off-topic but NOLA-related, I finally read Walker Percy's "The Moviegoer." It was on my wife's book club agenda. I thought it was outstanding -- hilarious in many ways, but with some unexpectedly profound turns and brilliant observations. And now I understand how he would have been drawn to "Confederacy Of Dunces."
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Post by azbob643 on Mar 21, 2024 20:20:35 GMT -5
Maybe I'm missing something, but Modelo is owned by Constellation and not affiliated with InBev. I found this in wikipedia.com: "On June 12, 2008, The Wall Street Journal stated that Anheuser-Busch InBev, which owned a non-controlling 50% stake in the company, might attempt to acquire the remaining 50%.[3] On June 29, 2012, it was announced that Anheuser-Busch InBev would acquire the remaining 50% stake for an all-cash price of $20.1 billion.[4] On January 31, 2013, the US Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit in an attempt to prevent the buyout. The matter was settled, and the two companies merged in June 2013,[5] with the transfer of all United States rights to Constellation Brands.[6] As a result, all the company's brands are made (in Mexico) by an unrelated company. In the United States, Grupo Modelo brands are distributed by Constellation Brands.True... "AB InBev still owns the Modelo brand elsewhere in the world, but not in the United States. That means sales of Modelo in the U.S. go to Constellation Brands, not AB InBev." That said...I seriously doubt Bud Light drinkers switched to Modelo. Much more likely unknowingly moved on to another InBev brand.
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Mar 21, 2024 20:42:26 GMT -5
I like a good cold beer after a round of golf or working in the yard. When I was a youngster, I admired my Uncle and his beer of choice was Schaefer. Back in the day, it was pretty good beer. When they changed somthing within the manufacturing process my to Rolling Rock and I followed suit. I guess I've always been partial to lagers (with the exception of Bud). I now drink Modelo like many others, I've read it has become the number one selling beer. I recall when in highschool a buddy was able to get a six pack of Coors. It was mystical back then because you couldn't get it on the East Coast. Somthing to do with it couldn't get warm and shipping costs were prohibitive. Anyway, my buddy gave me one and I was really dissapointed. Didn't understand the hype. Went back to Schaefer. First, my Schaefer story… Nowhere near my beer of choice, but whenever I drank it, I got a splitting headache. I started to think it had become psychological, so I avoided it if it was offered. One night, on a business trip to Minneapolis, I went down to the hotel bar and ordered a draft…whatever was on tap. Two sips later got a pounding headache…looked over at the tap and…Schaefer. Bumping up against the “political” guardrail, but…Modelo has become the #1 selling beer displacing the “boycotted” Bud Light. What I personally find hilarious about that…Modelo & Bud Light are owned by the same company…Inbev…and that’s all I’ll say about that!! The Coors “mystique” was always a joke in Colorado. Friends in Florida always asked me to bring them a couple of cases when I visited. My brother once had a layover in Denver…I and a few friends met him at a local bar near the airport. When he joined us, the waitress asked what he wanted. When he said “Coors” the entire table of locals went…eewggh!! He was embarrassed, and changed his order to whatever everyone else was drinking. IBud gives me a headache, but I can drink Bud Lite without issue.
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Mar 21, 2024 20:48:19 GMT -5
I remember the Coors mystique too. Lack of availability plus just enough people returning from Colorado with tales of this beer made from pure Rocky Mountain spring water. You heard a little bit about Anchor Steam Beer from San Francisco too, or Olympia Beer from Washington. Molson from Canada also had a cult following before it became widely available in the US. Another mystique item back in the 60s or 70s was sourdough bread, which supposedly could only be obtained in San Francisco. Schaefer -- the one beer to have when you're having more than one. Schaeffer pleasure doesn't fade even when your thirst is done. They were making a pretty blatant pitch for getting wasted. I remember one ad that showed a guy in a batting cage while the announcer intoned "This man is working up a more than one beer thirst. After a workout like this, he'll need one...two...three beers or more." OK rookie, up on the barrel www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMQHDg6fTZc
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Mar 21, 2024 20:55:23 GMT -5
It seems to me that my fathers generation had more brand loyalty than today. If you were a Bud drinker you drank Bud, if you liked Ford cars you bought Fords. More choices today but also don't feel there is as much brand loyalty. I'm not saying that is good or bad, just an observation.
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Post by azbob643 on Mar 21, 2024 20:57:02 GMT -5
I remember the Coors mystique too. Lack of availability plus just enough people returning from Colorado with tales of this beer made from pure Rocky Mountain spring water. You heard a little bit about Anchor Steam Beer from San Francisco too, or Olympia Beer from Washington. Molson from Canada also had a cult following before it became widely available in the US. Another mystique item back in the 60s or 70s was sourdough bread, which supposedly could only be obtained in San Francisco. Schaefer -- the one beer to have when you're having more than one. Schaeffer pleasure doesn't fade even when your thirst is done. They were making a pretty blatant pitch for getting wasted. I remember one ad that showed a guy in a batting cage while the announcer intoned "This man is working up a more than one beer thirst. After a workout like this, he'll need one...two...three beers or more." OK rookie, up on the barrel www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMQHDg6fTZc One of the worst tag lines ever..."Taste My Schlitz". www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXMDrtLcM7s
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Post by bomberhojoe on Mar 21, 2024 21:32:08 GMT -5
Here's to good friends, tonight is kind of special. The beer we'll pour must say something more, somehow. So tonight, tonight, Let it be Lowenbrau. Very 1977! Just like me!
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 21, 2024 22:53:37 GMT -5
No, I was raised in an unincorporated area called Florence, which is several miles south of a town called Gueydan, - comprised of about 1500 people - where I went to elementary and high school. Gueydan is about 60 miles east and south of Lake Charles and about 50 miles west and south of Lafayette, home of the UL Ragin' Cajuns. They were formerly the Bulldogs. No idea how McNeese became the Cowboys. Thanks for the geography lesson Rizz. March Madness always adds to my knowledge of geography and college mascots. BTW completely off-topic but NOLA-related, I finally read Walker Percy's "The Moviegoer." It was on my wife's book club agenda. I thought it was outstanding -- hilarious in many ways, but with some unexpectedly profound turns and brilliant observations. And now I understand how he would have been drawn to "Confederacy Of Dunces." "The Movie Goer" was introduced to me by my first LSU English teacher, great friend, father confessor, and vacation buddy Douglas Holt. Walker Percy is underrated in my estimation. Another you may enjoy by Percy is called "The Second Coming." I'm sure you may know this but Shelby Foote - made famous in his later years by the Ken Burns' series "The Civil War" - was best friends with Walker Percy. If there ever was a true Mississippi accent, it was shared by the two of them. Percy and Foote had a covenant between them, whomever outlived the other would inherit their greatest literary possession. For Walker Percy, it was his complete collection of Shakespeare. For Foote, it was his seven-volume, leather-bound copy of Marcel Proust's "Remembrance Of Things Past/In Search Of Lost Time." Foote proved the winner of the contest. The were friends since boyhood.
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Post by desousa on Mar 22, 2024 5:54:16 GMT -5
I have one thing on my bucket list. That is to belly up to the bar with rizzuto and pipps. Ye merry gentlemen, the pleasure would be all mine! We just require a designated driver, to which I would nominate Kaybli, to steer us safely to the best lions' head bowls of French Onion Soup along the way from public house to public house. I would invite Inger, but not every place would appreciate the ever-present sombrero atop someone of Swedish/Norwegian descent, which honestly I suspect more Anglo-Saxon and Germanic roots - of course, I could be wrong. By the way, Sir Inger left a very pleasant voice mail message on my cell phone. At first, I thought is was a government call, asking for my vote of support. Inger definitely has the voice for any media outlet or political aspiration. He also sounds much younger, like a man in his 30s. Gravel and well-done meats must have some advantages. I wish the 10 or so of us that kept Bronx Bomber Board going all those years could have gotten together at some point. I bet it would have been a lot of fun.
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 22, 2024 9:50:39 GMT -5
From around that same era of beer ads -- "Once around life, once around living, once around beer and you'll keep around Schlitz." And the Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull. And "If you've got the time, we've got the beer, Miller Beer, Miller tastes too good to hurry through. When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear -- Miller Beer -- if you've got the time, we've got the beer." Anybody remember "Schmidt's -- one beautiful beer"? Or was that just a Philly thing? "What'll you have? Pabst Blue Ribbon. Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer." Not beer, but from that time was "Harvey's Bristol Cream -- it's downright upright." "Riunite on ice. That's nice." And those elaborate "Gallo makes wine with loving care" ads. Stiller and Meara did those Blue Nun ads, I think mostly made for radio.
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 22, 2024 10:10:31 GMT -5
It seems to me that my fathers generation had more brand loyalty than today. If you were a Bud drinker you drank Bud, if you liked Ford cars you bought Fords. More choices today but also don't feel there is as much brand loyalty. I'm not saying that is good or bad, just an observation. For sure, there are hundreds more consumer choices today in almost every product. We would think we were deprived if we had to go back to what was available in stores in the 60s, although of course at the time it seemed fine because we had nothing to compare it to. As it relates to beer, there were very few truly national brands back then -- Budweiser, Miller, Schlitz, Pabst, Carling -- maybe a few more -- and then there were regional brands like Ballantine and Piel's and Schaefer and Hamm's -- and more localized beers, every area had a few of those. You would have been lucky to have had even ten brands to choose from in a typical beer outlet. Before the micro-brews started up, I remember some imports coming in, like Molson and Corona and Lowenbrau and Heineken, a few giants like that, in the late 60s to early 70s. Transport methods improved, tariffs came down, people started realizing there were things more exotic than Michelob and it just exploded. And only California and New York were producing wines in any great quantity in the US. People used to drink stuff like Cold Duck. Maybe they still do. I don't mean winos desperate for anything, middle class people drank it. The desperados or college students (assuming there was a difference) would drink Boone's Farm or Annie Green Springs or Thunderbird or other life-shortening sludge.
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