Your Grandfather's Beer

Rheingold
Carling Black Label
Knickerbocker
Schaefer
The beer in my avatar

I wish I could find me some Rheingold. On hot, July/August days after softball, we would sit in the park and drink their 32 ounce wide mouth. Dry, refreshing, and hit the spot. The late 70's and early '80's were great times.

 

Special export I believe was the name. He lived in Minnesota and that's only place I've seen it before.

 

I was a change of life child so I really did not know my grandfathers. My Dad, who would be 96, if alive today used to love to drink beer and was way, way, way, ahead of the craft beer seen.

He developed his own spiced beer..........Iron City Light with Salt.
He developed his own fruit beer.............Iron City Light with Tomato Juice......and
He was into Imperial styles....................Iron City Light with a shot of Imperial Whiskey

 

Narrragansett and Bud

 

One grandpa either Pabst or Strohs. The other grandpa Old Milwaukee.

 

I never knew my grandpa on either side--one died before I was born, the other ran off on my grandma and started another family or two in other parts of the country, and nobody had a clue where he was until they found out in the mid-90s that he'd also died. I couldn't even begin to guess what beer either of them drank, or if they did at all.

My dad, on the other hand--he mostly drinks imported European beers, with only a few exceptions. Usually Beck's Dark if it's available (sometimes the regular Beck's if he can't find the Dark), and I've seen six-packs of Heineken and St. Pauli Girl in the fridge/cabinet before when I was younger, too. He orders different stuff when eating out sometimes--George Kilian's Irish Red or Peroni at the local Italian place, Negra Modelo at the Mexican restaurants, there's a more bar/pub-style restaurant back home where he orders a Guinness pretty much every time we've been there. He's also ordered the Devil's Backbone Eight-Point IPA once when we were at a place that had it on tap, and Yuengling when my sister and I were visiting back home and one of the restaurants the whole family's been going to for years was out of the Beck's Dark he usually orders there.

I don't think I've ever seen him drinking the Bud/Miller/Coors type beers--he's mentioned a few times that he can't drink more than one Bud without getting an awful headache, which sounds like a pretty good reason to avoid it to me!

 

On my mums side my Granda was a artisan crafts man a master plasterer when worked hard and drank Guinness Extra Stout. and a wee dram of whiskey in the evening.

On my dads side my Granda was in the RAF and fought in the war in the Middle East and North Africa... he was a Gin and Tonic man as most were in those days...

I'm immensely proud of both men and have fond memories of them any time I knock back a G&T a whiskey or an Extra Stout

 

I think my grandpa drank PBR and Budweiser. I know my fiance's grandparents drank Bud growing up and living in StL.

 

From what I've heard Pabst Blue Ribbon.

 

Ha! Both of my grandfathers were from Russia. They bypassed the beer and had a daily shot of whiskey when they came home from work. Convinced it increased their lives!

 

Red Dog was my Grandfather's Beer of choice

 

Falls City of course.

 

My paternal grandfather was a bricklayer in NYC for 44 years. From what I know he pretty much only drank Meister Brau. Every time we would visit when I was child that's all he ever had in hand. I've never had the (mis)fortune of having it, but my Dad says it was pretty vile stuff. As I got older I kind of figured my grandfather would have a better taste for beer because both his parents were off-the-boat German. He didn't even learn English until he started going to school!

As for my maternal grandfather, I'm not sure what he drank or what he liked. He passed long before I was ever born. Some day I'll have to ask my Mom about what he used to drank (if anything).

 

Everyone in my Rochester NY family drank Genesee

 

I didn't find this out until recently but my late grandfather (born in 1923) used to drink Grolsch. He saved the swing top bottles when he was done, don't know why.

 

Well seeing that I am a grandfather I don't remember either of my grandfathers drinking much if any beer but I do remember the large wooden barrel with the spigot in the cellar that contained some of the smoothest hard cider I ever tasted. My father on the other hand drank lots of beer mostly Carling Black Label and then later on I think he switched to Old Milwaukee. I also remember trips to relatives in Canada and him bringing back cases of Molson's Ale.

 

I have similar memories as the OP. My grandfather drank local cincinnati beer, usually Hudepohl, but sometimes Burger. I heard that Christian Moerlein recently resurrected the old Hudepohl beers, but I haven't had a chance to try them again.

 

" From the land of sky blue waters"------------

 

I drank that a lot in college, and South Paw Light (I think they were the same brewery).

 

Strohs. Lots and lots of Strohs.