Hamm’s Appreciation Thread (2024)

The fact is that ABInbev can make beer for less than anybody else (maybe MillerCoors in the US can come close). AB can also offer incentives in some states to get lost Bud Light tap handles back.

 

Appreciating a Hamm's on the deck. Packed away many of my beer glasses. I have 3 Hamm's glasses but apparently packed them up. Hope it's okay for Hamm's to go in a High Life glass. Cheers to Hamm's!

 

Just purchased a suitcase of Hamm’s . No 30 pks in AZ and not sold everywhere. This is also fresh BB til end of Jan/25

 

Another picture of a blue Hamm's can. Drink up Hamm's lovers! Cheers!

 

Went to Frankenmuth, MI on Monday. Koger had 30 racks for $13.99. So I picked up one. I was actually looking for a six pack of something cheap and they did not have anything. I had a 30 bought a few days before at the local Meijer for $15.49. Pic is my beer fridge. Come on over if any of you run low. Best drink by mid-Jan. Let's get to work. Garage service door is open.

 

Hamm's is slowly disapperaring here in Colorado Springs since, according to a Liquor Store owner I'd asked said: "it ain't selling in this market 'cause no one drinks it here...so the distributor is not gonna carry it anymore..." Me thinks Colorado Springs is (and has been) OVER saturated with too many hit-and-miss, over-priced Krapp Brewers and cash strapped beer drinkers here are being left for dead, just like Hamm's has become in this marketplace.

 

Rainier is iconic in the NW so that would be my choice. Funnily enough I found Rainier for the first time in decades when we visited Idaho summer of 2023 and then it started to show up in the Bay Area a few months after that.

 

Rainier wasn't iconic in Oregon. In the late 60s and early 70s in Portland, it trailed Blitz, Oly, and even Heidelberg. It was more popular than Lucky.

 

Interesting. Early on when it showed up in California I checked and it was brewed in Golden, CO. Mass market beer capitalism at work.

 

Not Woodinville. https://www.seattletimes.com/busine...-brewery-site-in-woodinville-sells-for-24-5m/
A revived Rainier Pale Ale was brewed briefly in Woodinville (2016-2017?) by Red Hook/CBA under contract to Pabst. I doubt that Rainier Beer was ever made there. Pabst had an option to buy the brewery, but didn't go through with the purchase. Miller (and then MolsonCoors) probably brewed Rainier beer in Irwindale under contract before they sold the brewery to a Pabst-related entity. While the brewery was being refitted and restarted, Coors Golden might have been the source, or possibly City Brewery, LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Irwindale is the most likely brewer now.

 

I have some Vitamin R in the fridge that I bought a couple weeks ago, "Rainer Brewing Co., Irwindale, CA. Please recycle".

 

I seem to remember from JK's body of work that the HQ can be used as the location. But the Rainier website does name Irwindale.