Was in love with this beer for a few years, then Canadian offerings & such got in the way. An American Icon, when I was diving Israel, I had a Brit dive guide that wanted me to go out to the Sinia Border UN Checkpoint & get some bud from the 82nd Airborne Observers buffering the Israelis & Egyptians. I told them since I was Air Force they'd probably contact my commanders & I'd be in trouble. To me the Macabee beer was better, but I only had to drink it 10 days
The United Brewery Workmen of America (considered the first real "industrial union" [all workers regardless of craft] in the US labor movement) was bi-lingual, with some locals conducting all meetings only in German, up until the WWII.
Yep. The first settlement of German speaking people in America was Germantown (now a neighborhood of Philadelphia) in 1683. In the recent past I attended German beer festival held at the Pennsylvania German Historical Society (6th & Spring Garden Streets) and that year they were selling T-shirts that proclaimed: "Germans, Americans since 1683". Prost!
I'm okay with a Bud now and then. I prefer them over the light and ultra lights running around. I used to stop by the Jacksonville, Florida brewery for a "tour" which was really a walk to the tasting room. Bud and Amber Bock flowing for no cost. I suspect they have limits now. On Friday's you'd see the sailors from Mayport stopping in for a free beer!
Boy, that is a brand I have not thought of for a very long time!! I can't remember the last time I have seen that beer. Maybe mostly distributed down south for some reason? A couple decades ago I was spending a lot of time down south (Pascagoula, Biloxi,..) for business and the best available beer at many places was Michelob Amber Bock so I drank quite a bit of it then. Cheers!
Maybe it was more of a southern market, I don't recall seeing it when traveling. I enjoyed it but I tend to enjoy all beers once I set my expectations accordingly!
Your distribution supposition may be dead on. I haven't seen it anywhere in the PNW, and untapped doesn't show it available anyplace nearby.
AB markets "Ziegen Bock" in Texas to grab part of Shiner Bock's market share. It's now brewed at their Karbach subsidiary. Maybe the Michelob Amber Bock is a relative (or clone) available to their distributors that can find a market for it?
Speaking of Amber Bock, I can't be the only one that loved those Michelob mixed packs back in the 2000s. A great way to get into different styles without spending much.
@Reef conducted a side-by-side tasting of Ziegenbock and Michelob Amber Bock last year. www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/whats-the-difference-share-your-side-by-side-2025.679613/page-2#post-8164249 These beers are brewed at differing locations (breweries) and have differing sensory qualities. Cheers!
I thought so too, but the bar was set very low this year. Most of the commercials were complete garbage and not the least bit entertaining. Considering an average cost of 8 million for 30 seconds, I was expecting better.
For sure . The ads are nothing like they were 10-20 years ago when there were several that you rewatched several times the next day.
My great grandparents still spoke Pennsylvania Dutch in the first half of the 20th century (and obviously the Amish famously still do). Our hymn books at the Mennonite church that I attended as a kid still had some hymns in German-we typically sang Silent Night in German on Christmas Eve. Poor Ben Franklin must have been rolling in his grave: Funny how Franklin didn't even consider Germans or Swedes to be "white".
True. The two terms that were "adapted" in the 30s for use to define racial differences were originally just names for language groups.
