Shortened Bar Orders

Yeah, no worries. Going for the local stuff makes the most sense, especially if it’s a town with a brewery and a local following for that beer - back in the days. Totally different scene nowadays with 7,000 Taprooms and 14,000 “beer company” labels on the dry shelves.

For what it’s worth, the flagship from Jacob Leinenkugel (c.f. “Leinenkugel’s”) had gained a formidable market presence when I came of age and in college, and quickly became the go-to beer tap beer for my friends and I (this was before Craft and/or Microbrew offerings became routine, and import sections were still very slim in the bars).

“Leinie’s” was the shortened form of that. Typically, it was their original lager, but on occasion there were Limited and Bock on-tap, and what good times those were!

 

Not an abbreviation, but at college bars in Springfield, Ohio, we ordered and drank a lot of “Shrubs”. <Busch>

 

at some point they changed the can so that it said "Duke Draft." The reason I remember this is that when I was a junior in HS in Virginia I had a pal on the track team who had a store that would sell him beer. He got 50 cents lunch money from his mom and I got 50 cents from mine, so we would skip lunch and after track practice run out to this country store and buy a sixer of Duke Draft for $1.03 ($.99 plus $.04 VA sales tax, back then.) This was the only 99 cent sixer available. at this country store where, if you understand the genre, prices are always at least 25% greater than even chain convenience stores.

Our biggest problem every day was finding the three cents, but we usually could find a girl we didn't already owe, who would "lend" it to one of us.

It occurs to me, telling this story 48 years later, that perhaps beer has always occupied too large a space in my life.

On second thought, nah...

 

Seem to use the phrase "yes please I'd like another" more than most. Works best when place is not crowded and have chatted with the barkeep a bit.

 

When I ask for “bud”, I’m thinking about something else...

 

I apologize for repetition - this thread is getting long - but growing up there were Bud and Mick (for Michelob in that wonderful bottle). A Sam Summer was Sam Adams Summer Ale. Natty Bo was National Bohemian, obviously, Jenny Cream was Genesee , and Nasty Gansett was Narragansett, because we were so witty in school.

 

Köln (Cologne), Germany is the birthplace of the Kölsch style beer and every brewpub brews their own Kölsch. You can simply walk into a pub and order "one beer". Sometimes you don't even have to say anything and can just sorta wave your hands around.

Bonus: they come in these little 6oz shooters (presumably so they stay cold?) and they will continue to bring you new glasses until you put your coaster on top of the glass, signalling that you're tapped out.

 

I think "suds" was a bit before my time, but did you see the recent season of The Man in the High Castle? The effete antiques dealer looks at the bartender in "no mans land" and asks "What is your draft?" "Beer," the bartender responds.

 

Growing up in Columbus, I learned early on that ordering a Gam would get you a locally-brewed (August Wagner) Gambrinus. There was a little corner bar in the Brewery District where my buddies and I would go for 25-cent draws of "draft Gam." Good times...