Your favorite regional AALs

Yes, it's still here, and selling for around $13 a case.

 

Rainier aka Vitamin R

 

Has the Point Special recipe changed? Just picked up a twelve pack, in Wisconsin, and it tastes like watery overcooked orange juice. Granted it's been ten years since my previous twelve pack, but I don't remember it being as bad as this.

 

Another thread back from the dead.

 

Gotta say, the homework was done.

 

I don’t there anything remotely like those iconic beers I grew up with here in Central NC, I feel sorry for the kids growing up here back in the day. They were probably stuck with Budweiser. If there were any local breweries operating her in the 60s and 70s I’d be shocked, the Bible Belt before the Yankees invaded the state.

 

Came here to say Straub and was happy to see multiple posters beat me to it. Count another vote for Straub.

 

There was this article from last year that mentions changing some of the brewing procedures with Point Special, but supposedly not the recipe. Interestingly the article also says the beer has been all-malt since "the craft beer boom."

 

Isn't that the truth. I used to love PBR and Ranier (Yes, I'm from the PNW) and now they're same as everything else.

 

Not necessarily regional but Founders Solid Gold is pretty good, IMO.

 

Yeah, after the Atlantic Brewing Co. chain (<second half of post) - which had breweries in Charlotte (closed in '56) Atlanta (1955), Chattanooga TN (1941), Norfolk VA (1949) and Orlando FL (1954) - closed not much brewing in most of the deep south - LA and FL the obvious exceptions. AB was rumored to be looking at NC in the late '60s but it took Schlitz to open a brewery in Winston-Salem circa 1970, followed by Miller's Eden brewery.

But I was doing some research into state distribution laws ta few weeks back and came across this list of brands of distributors that were being threatened with suspension when the state ABC charged them with selling kegs to individuals, so NC drinkers did have a choice beyond Bud - but mostly the big national brewers' brands plus National (w/breweries in Baltimore and Miami at the time).

(I also know that NC had a couple of Ballantine distributors, too, pre-1972, and that Falstaff distributor listed likely carried Ballantine beer and ale).

Carling and Pabst both ran into opposition from church groups when they were building breweries in Georgia in the '60s.

 

Great info, when I was in HS we came down for a family reunion maybe 1973, and I was shocked you could buy beer in gas stations.

 

I am uncertain whether “regional” really applies here but Sly Fox Brewing Co. has resurrected Reading Premium Beer:


I have had a couple draft pints at the Sly Fox Brewpub and I think that Sly Fox did a very good job in remaking this beer.

It is available for sale in six-packs/16 ounce cans for 10 bucks at the brewpub (and at beer retailers?).

Cheers!

 

Wow. 10 bucks - pretty good price considering there's 50 years of inflation between that and what we used to pay. Only $2.50 more:

 

Lol, used to be the cheap shit beer, with Gibbons and Valley Forge. Funny as a teen I/ we turned up our nose at Iron City, it was supposedly too shitty to even consider drinking. Ah the day.

 

Ahh but they put out some nice cans in the 70s. Pittsburgh Steelers championship cans.

 

Cortland Naked Lap Lager .
I haven't seen anything remotely fresh in 2? years or more, so haven't had it in a long time.

 

Here's that article: https://www.craftbeerreview.com/news/2019/4/24/tes-point-special-lager

 

Budweiser, Coors' Batch 19 and Founder's Solid Gold are my highest ranked AALs.

I do like lighter beer in the summer. My favorite local offering is Pony, a Pilsner brewered by Half Acre. Dovetail and Revolution's Pilsners are solid as well, and I really liked Goose Island's Born and Raised released last year, classified as an American Cream Ale.

 

Here is PA, I'd say Straubs. Their Lager, Light and Amber actually have some flavor to them.

Yuengling is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overrated except maybe for Chesty.