From Detroit area originally. Used to go to Mothers Pizza in Windsor and Molson Golden was the beer of choice. This was 1987 or 1988. Good call!
It could also be the mashing. Single infusion will not showcase malt like a step mash process there is a difference but your correct they want efficiency there in business to make money. Some "beers" like Ultra might have very little malt in it at all I didn't taste any so I know it's not a beer not to derail the OP... he he
Since it's Baltic Porter Day a few beers I'm missing are Victory Baltic Thunder and Red Thunder, plus a Baltic Porter that Lancaster Brewing Co. made about 20 years ago. I recall going through several growlers of that one.
I definitely liked the adjunct Michelob that we drank in the 80's and 90's better than when they made it all malt sometime, I think, in the early 2000's.
Seems to me, since the demise of Hunterdon, lots of their former craft brands' distribution and availability is all screwed up, depending on which AB* house's region one shops in (I think they were all AB houses?).
Makes sense. Looks like they are distributed by Remarkable Liquids. Hunterdon was a necessary evil. A lot of brands we use to get are now gone, but not sure that is all due to them though.
If I remember correctly, in the mid '80s you could get Watney's Red Barrel in a plastic two liter bottle. I was really wishing some brewery would do that so I could bring beer to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (no cans or glass bottles allowed). Also, when I was a kid, I never understood what they were talking about in the Monty Python skit about "bleeding Watney's Red Barrel."
Dam. We didn't have the two liter bottles available in our area. I don't know if that is good or bad.
John Courage Whitbread Pale Ale Wild Goose Amber Sam Adams Boston Ale You can probably tell when I started drinking beer...
you and me both… (except for the wild goose- Bell’s amber was my beer of choice, luckily still available). I’d love to see any of the others back, though
Might get a touch of traction here with this one, but I truly miss Squatters Hells Keep - I think was my first delve into strong Belgians. Had it last in 2022 and I believe went out of production, at least temporarily. But when I reached out last year there were no plans to bring it back sadly.
Anchor Old Foghorn and Our Special Ale. Would have to say the pre 2010 Boon Framboise with the higher ABV. Original Moriau Kriek from the old cafe pre Boon.
I miss old-school Gemini from Southern Tier. For that matter I miss when Southern Tier made beer. Edit: I realized there was no description in the beer page about what it was. It was a beer that was blended from their old unfiltered Hoppe IPA (pre-NEIPA) and their regular IPA called Unearthly. Both were great beers (at the time) but blending them created this unique flavor. They remade the beer into some new version...I'm guessing it was too time consuming to brew and blend two beers but the new version tastes nothing at all like the old one.
Those ipa-like beers from ST were all pretty good I thought (hoppe, unearthly, Gemini and iniquity), but I remember thinking at the time, "does everything they make need to be so boozy?" The final straw for me was their oak aged cuvee series. They were extremely sweet and syrupy, on top of being very boozy.
