Goodbye, Michelob Original Lager.

But that's a different situation and is not the case for the other poster who wrote that some stores in his area do carry the two beers.

Never understand that complaint. People want to buy a particular beer but 24 are too many?

 

I always see it at Total Wine & More. Sometimes I buy it too.

 

Some people prefer to purchase in smaller quantities (e.g., six-packs) for a variety of reasons. One example: they don't have enough money in their wallet to buy more than a six-pack.

Cheers!

 

Me,I don't want to commit myself to the same beer/beer style 24 times.

 

I rarely want 24 of any one beer. Even beers I really love. For macro lagers (even all malt ones like Michelob), I get burned out after 9-10. That straight ahead sweetness with minimal balance grinds on me.
Coors Extra Gold is like this in CO. It's almost always only sold in 24-pack boxes unless the store is willing to open one and break it into 6/12-packs themselves.

 

I completely agree, as the big boys umbrella expands which they certinly will, the beers you’ll emotionally support shrinks. I also drink what I like it doesn’t interest me to boycott AB.

And yes the worst beers I’ve even had were also bad craft beers, not just not enjoyable but truly horrific beers. At worst most AALs if they’re fresh are all decent enough, certainly theres some I like better than others, but truly horrific won’t apply unless its a cheap Malt Liquor, or they stick clam juice in it.

 

Unless it's a cellarable beer so there's no rush to drink it.
Last case that I bought was The Abyss, yeah, the 2009.

 

Funny living in Pa we bought by the case, here it’s not unthinkable to buy by the case, but in guess 95% of sales are 6/12 packs.

 

But again - if someone really wants a particular beer (and not just for ticking) and it is one they can't typically find, buy a case. Seems more sensible and financially beneficial than driving all over 3 counties "hunting" for a beer. Lots of places (where allowed by law) will give you a discount off the "4 X 6" price, too. I don't know, the case for me is still the standard unit of measure for beer - a four- or six-pack > just a sample.

There is no rule that one has to drink all 24 of them in row, stores take credit cards, etc. One every 3 days or so, offer a few to friends, etc., give Mom a sixpack for Mother's Day and it's gone in a couple of months.

Plus, I've found that in most stores these days when I ask for a particular beer, there's no commitment to buy the case nor do they even take my name. I've done it and sometimes when I show up, a six or 2 are gone already (sometimes the beer guy's bought one) and it's becomes a standard stock item for the retailer for awhile.

 

I tell a lie. I bought a mixed case of Spaten...Lager, Oktoberfest and Optimator last year.

 

Veal? It's aboot as rare as fresh imports in Casper!

 

Hopefully it sticks around.
That's my go to "premium" budget beer, and High Life.
I know it is no longer kegged.
Crying shame because it is pretty solid on draft.
The rest of that line is shiite.

 

Yeah. It wasn't that long ago in PA when the distributors ONLY sold by the case-think it was one of the many weird PA beer laws. Had to hit the pizza shops if you wanted 6s and 12s.

 

Those old Quaker laws were hard to get rid Of, but they were losing a fortune in revenue to border states too.

 

Wonder when that happened - it was still on local NJ AB house price lists a little over a year ago.


As noted in the snip above, it was once considered a rare beer in the US. (I've told the story often of having a Michelob draught at their Ohio brewery circa 1980 - and it surprised me how hoppy it was. The hoppiest US-brewed lager beer I'd ever had at that point).

Got any source for the "Quaker" comment? The case law, like many US state alcoholic beverage laws, had its origins in the immediate post-Repeal era and PA's brewers often took credit for it - they considered it a "pro-local beer" law. At the time - mid-1930s- PA had more breweries than any other state with 107 (Wisconsin at #2 had 86).

To quote the PA. State Brewers Association president in 1980, in a speech entitled "Why Pennsylvania Has Eight Breweries"...."We do have good laws...favorable laws". He went on to say that the earliest members of the PBA were responsible for writing the liquor code after Repeal which "protected the brewers". He also claimed that they'd fought and won the battle to "...keep beer out of grocery stores".

According to Dick Yuengling Jr. in Modern Brewery Age (Dec. '99), "the unique distribution system in Pennsylvania was a big factor in the company's survival".

As soon as the early version of the law went into effect in 1935, it was challenged in court by the national breweries Schlitz, Pabst and AB, claiming "...it amounted to a virtual establishment of a monopoly for Pennsylvania breweries..." because "importing distributors" (the only ones able to bring out-of-state beer into PA) were charged different licensing fees and bond rates than other distributors which could buy beer direct from in-state breweries.