Regional Beer Slang

But, since I've been with my wife, I no longer call it "breakfast".

 

Eastern WA
6 pack = sixer
12 pack = half-rack
24 pack = case (curiously, not a "rack")
30 pack = brick (sometimes cube)
22oz bottle = "twenty-two", which is a bummer because I like "bomber" better, but whenever I say "bomber" in a bar/restaurant/store I tend to get that blank-face, wtf-did-he-say look... You know the one.

 

Bit of an old and probably obsolete term, but "off-door" was the term we used. Maybe it's a regional/ age thing.

Bottle and jug? A small hatch behind the bar that served a small lobby separate from the bar, buffet, saloon, snug, smoke etc for folk wanting to purchase drinks to be consumed off the premises.

Lock in/stoppy back? A drinking session for a select few that happens behind locked doors outside of licensed hours.
Back in the bad old days of the pubs closing between 3pm and 6pm the uncertainty of a lock in would bring tension and high drama to the early sesh. Being cast, half-cut and blinking, into the sobering daylight from the cosy fug of the bar was a dreadful prospect. One of my regular haunts was infamous for its after hours sessions but the landlord took too many risks and lost his license.

A Bob? A pint purchased whilst still drinking another. So as to not appear an old soak, one asked for "One for Bob" who was on his way to the pub. After a while it became known as a Bob.

 

NWNJ/NEPA: Ask for a lager... you get Yuengling. No, that's not a bad thing.

 

Things I have heard or use in Texas

6packs
6'r
72's

22 oz
Bomber
Deuce Deuce
Two two's

750 ml
5th

Package Store
Packy
Habib's (I assume because there is a large middle eastern population with liquor/package/gas stores)

 

Ah yes, the packie, 'tis used widely in Rhode Island. I always enjoy hearing the names people have for 7 oz. beers. Stubbies, nubbies, shorties, minis, etc.

 

7oz bud cans = nips

 

We used to be able to buy 8 packs of 7oz bottles. Mostly Genesee, but also Old Vienna, which came in long-neck 7oz bottles, and were called splits. The nickel/bottle deposit killed off the 8packs

 

In my area since we were kids we call a case a "rack" for whatever reason and still say it to this day! And bombers were always quates after quart perhaps, but now I just call em bombs! And the liquor store was and is "the state" for the state store!!

 

Where I'm from the the deep dirty south, 'Bud Lite' and 'Natty Daddy' are the slang for beer.

 

Package Store, Bottle Shop... I say beer store, but I don't think anyone else calls them that.

 

24pk cans "suitcase"

 

Had a the pleasure of few lock ins while over there...

 

Don't remember it being universal when I first joined the Air Force, the base Liquor Store was known as the Class Six Store. Now days it's usually part of the gas stations on base, but still known as the same...

 

Here in Arkansas they call it the Devils drink. They have also never heard of a "growler" here.

Back home in WA we called 12pks half racks, as they take up half a display rack in a store shelf; we call 22ozs Bombers cuz it's easier and cooler than saying "twenty-two ouncer". Some folks on the west side of the state call a glass of beer a "schooner", they are usually smaller than a pint.

I'm sure there is more, but I can't think of them now.

 

I'd be curious to find out how widely used the term 'party store' is for referring to a beer store. I mentioned to a friend once while I was in Iowa that I wanted to go get some beer from the party store, and he replied that type of store only carries party supplies. A beer store has always been a party store to me when I lived in 5 other states, but Iowa is at least one exception.

 

When I was young the people I worked with called beer "frubitz". Considering everyone there drank while working at that small town gas station and people would bring us free beer all the time it kinda stuck in my mind. The boss would say "Babe! We're almost out of frub" to which multiple hands would raise for the proverbial "frub run". Good times.

 

I've heard and called 16oz cans "pounders" and a 24 pk of those size cans is a "flat"

22oz bottles = Bombers

 

My understanding is that "Lager" refers to Yuengling in many places around Philly, but I haven't heard that term used in a long time. The craft beer boom has changed things quite a bit around here.