[mkfarnam]

Blame it on "RedBird"

I've heard the name "Choc Beer" in CA. but I always thought they were saying "Chalk".

Realbeer.com: American Beer Month: Oklahoma's Choc Beer

[Goodpasture]

Originally Posted by beowulf7

OK beer is not OK.

What OK beer are you talking about? Choc is pretty good. I haven't tried the new microbrew in Tulsa yet, but I heard it is pretty good as well. I HAVE tried some of the micros in Bricktown and they are good as well. Those are the ONLY OK beers I know of. The rest of the beer available is the national garbage pushed on us by the big brewers. Miller, Bud, Keystone, Old Milwaukee, Coors.........what is up with their "light/lite" beers? Is this a race to see who can get the most tasteless beer out first?????? some of Gam Adams is pretty decent, there are several ales, pilsners, and lagers that are available in the better liquor stores that are world class. Some of the Canadians like Labatt's and Molson's are good, some of the European brews are good, like Amstel or Heinekin. Corona, Piedras Negro, and some of the south of the border brews are decent. But please, do NOT blame Oklahoma for Bud Ice or Lite..........they have no flavor, no character, no integrity, they are cheap, plentiful, and they buy large adds on the superbowl. They are NOT made in Oklahoma.

[_redbird_]

Maybe its because our Oklahoma Senate and House members are GEICO cave men living in the Pleisto-scene...

And maybe our Oklahoma beer drinkers can't get off the couch long enough to rally at the state house! Wouldn't that be a sight... All the beer drinkers in Oklahoma united over 3.2 beer protest.

Oklahoma's the only state where people HAVE to consume massive quanitities at their OctoberFest because of low alcohol content. That's why our beer bellies are so big...

[karibear]

Back in the Dark Ages when I was a kid, there were 3.2 taverns on every other corner. This, btw, was in the same city where Falstaff, Budweiser, Carling's Black Label, and several others were brewed. I always figured [once I got old enough to think about it] that the purpose of the 3.2 beer was to keep the drinkers so busy running back and forth to and from the head that they couldn't get enough down to tie one on.

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by karibear

Back in the Dark Ages when I was a kid, there were 3.2 taverns on every other corner. This, btw, was in the same city where Falstaff, Budweiser, Carling's Black Label, and several others were brewed. I always figured [once I got old enough to think about it] that the purpose of the 3.2 beer was to keep the drinkers so busy running back and forth to and from the head that they couldn't get enough down to tie one on.

Milwaukee? wait no.....that's in St Lewy, Mo. aint it?

[karibear]

Originally Posted by mkfarnam

Milwaukee? wait no.....that's in St Lewy, Mo. aint it?

Yup. My first stepfather was in the bottler's union and worked for all of them one time or another. He even brought home a full set of the Busch Bavarian cans, the ones with the pretty pictures and a paper label that peeled off, that hadn't been run through a canner and had flared rims. We used those for iced tea for years, then my mother threw them out - I don't even want to think what they'd be worth to a collector today.

[karibear]

Originally Posted by Goodpasture

What OK beer are you talking about? Choc is pretty good. I haven't tried the new microbrew in Tulsa yet, but I heard it is pretty good as well. I HAVE tried some of the micros in Bricktown and they are good as well. Those are the ONLY OK beers I know of. The rest of the beer available is the national garbage pushed on us by the big brewers. Miller, Bud, Keystone, Old Milwaukee, Coors.........what is up with their "light/lite" beers? Is this a race to see who can get the most tasteless beer out first?????? some of Gam Adams is pretty decent, there are several ales, pilsners, and lagers that are available in the better liquor stores that are world class. Some of the Canadians like Labatt's and Molson's are good, some of the European brews are good, like Amstel or Heinekin. Corona, Piedras Negro, and some of the south of the border brews are decent. But please, do NOT blame Oklahoma for Bud Ice or Lite..........they have no flavor, no character, no integrity, they are cheap, plentiful, and they buy large adds on the superbowl. They are NOT made in Oklahoma.

Back in Alaska, when I was still in the scene, the popular beers were Oly, Rainier, Michelob, St Pauli Girl, Molson, Labatts, Heinekin, Tuborg, Corona, and a few others, more or less in that order, and anything that came in pounders. But big sellers in the liquor stores were Grolsch and Micky Big Mouth. Go figure.

[beowulf7]

Originally Posted by Goodpasture

What OK beer are you talking about? Choc is pretty good. I haven't tried the new microbrew in Tulsa yet, but I heard it is pretty good as well. I HAVE tried some of the micros in Bricktown and they are good as well. Those are the ONLY OK beers I know of. The rest of the beer available is the national garbage pushed on us by the big brewers. Miller, Bud, Keystone, Old Milwaukee, Coors.........what is up with their "light/lite" beers? Is this a race to see who can get the most tasteless beer out first?????? some of Gam Adams is pretty decent, there are several ales, pilsners, and lagers that are available in the better liquor stores that are world class. Some of the Canadians like Labatt's and Molson's are good, some of the European brews are good, like Amstel or Heinekin. Corona, Piedras Negro, and some of the south of the border brews are decent. But please, do NOT blame Oklahoma for Bud Ice or Lite..........they have no flavor, no character, no integrity, they are cheap, plentiful, and they buy large adds on the superbowl. They are NOT made in Oklahoma.

By "OK beer", I didn't mean OK brewed beer, but beer sold in OK, at least the part I was at (Tahlequah).

I also partly thought (and still do) that the OK gov.'t is selling weak beer so that consumers buy more of it to get the same effect as stronger beer. For example, if it takes 3-4 beers for someone to get buzzed on normal beer, he may have to consume 6 beers of weak beer to get the same feeling. Which means he has to buy more of it, which means the store owner and eventually the gov.'t gets more money. Yes, I know it's a conspiracy theory, but it sounds good.

mkfarnam, pretty neat link.

[mkfarnam]

The most popular ones I remember most as a kid in Mich, is "Schlitz", Pabst Blue Ribbon and Blatz
Pabst Brewing Company

[beowulf7]

I had a Pabst for the first time over the weekend as well. It was a 16 oz can, too, and full strength. I didn't like it at all.