I remember when...

You could still buy Cantillon cheap and no one even on this site (at the time) had heard of it. talking 1999 or so.
Westvleteren cafe was not crowded. lol. You could still get 3 crates in the beer line, and you could get through on the beer line, early 1990's

 

Going to every liquor store in town and spending hours trying to find Dark Lord.

Yeah...true story. I did that.

 

I remember when a 6 pak of Miller Light was my good beer for the night when I was in college. Didn't matter what I drank after, as long as it was cheapo!!

 

And Fou' Foune was a shelf turd.

 

yep, they used to sit on the shelves for years....literally.

even in Belgium in 70's and 80's lambic nearly all died out, but NOT quite.

that apricot lambic is still a no no to me.

 

How about when package/beer store weren't complete shit houses on black friday

 

how about beer season changes and creeping....

 

Yeah shopping is bad enough...don't know why or how breweries/bottle shops decided that they needed to add the release of some amazing beers to the mix of things that people go fucking crazy for (aka guy getting trampled I walmart)

 

That's a pretty good memory - they've been complaining about that for over a century in the US.

 

I know I read all your pages, all the time. I was thinking of you....still I seen it in my time on this earth.

 

People used to buy a six or twelve back, maybe even a case. Amazing to see all of the "latest haul" pictures with enough beer for a year.

 

I remember when Killian's Red was released back in 1984! I was at Ohio U. and we got a group together to sample the first "tapping" up town! How far I've come! Do they even still make it?

 

I also remember, when I was a kid, my Dad, drinking/buying Braumeister in "returnable bottle" cases! About once a month, I'd ask him if I could taste it! Surprisingly, everytime it gave me "bitter beer face"! I remember thinking, "how in the hell, could someone enjoy THAT"?

 

I remember when I thought Arrogant Bastard was "strong" beer.

 

4 fingers was used instead of an oz..... mexican.
btw there was lots of stronger beers than AB long before AB was even a dream. think EUROPE...

 

Oh, yeah, it's continued. I bet they would have lapped themselves by now, and if the few oldline brewers who still do seasonal bocks were truthful, their labels would read "2017" or so when released next spring...er, I mean this winter.

 

right I was looking for a bock yesterday and was surprised when i did not find 1. I thought its just barely December . I am getting old....settled for a dopplebock. lol
get retired and you lose track of what day it is....

 

When IPAs still had something to do with England.

 

now your talking pre "craft" lol
that was when IPA's were all imports....