I had some time to pass at SFO and came across this display. I figure a few of you will enjoy some of the artifacts on display.
Maybe you should post this on the Hamms appreciation forum? Maybe not. They generally revere the Minnesota heritage. But in the 60s Hamms was also brewed in LA, SF, Baltimore (!), and later in Tumwater, WA. Who knows where it comes from now.
Theo. Hamm also operated a brewery (ex-Gulf/Grand Prize) in Houston, Texas for a few years in the mid-60s. (Don't know if the bear ever wore a cowboy hat). And after Olympia/Hamm was bought by Pabst in the early 80s, it was brewed in Pabst's breweries, too. Yeah, odd to feature Acme and Hamm's - probably Lucky Lager and Burgermeister were likely the biggest SF beer after Repeal, along with Rainier (whose brewery Hamm's bought in the early 50s). And, damn, I hate to see bottles on display with no crowns. If they don't have the originals, at least go to a homebrew shop and pick up some blanks. Molson Coors breweries.
Hmmm... thinking more about it, I wonder if Olympia brewed Hamm's at the San Antonio Lone Star brewery when they owned it, 1977 - 1983.
Cross-posted it there since Hamm’s is so prominently featured here. And since he already weighed in, I’ll say @jesskidden knows!
Maybe it's the way Texans speak (or spoke in the 50s?) but I don't think I'd ever say that a beer "sits ... on my thirst ". And can a beer have a "deep taste" and still be "light and easy" ? "Fresh" and "icy" - aspects of a beer which are kinda hard for the brewer to guarantee.
That is true. To the Madison Ave. copywriters in that pre-craft era, I was an Ale man. Who is the Ale man? Why, it could (have been) you...
It could have been me -- but too late for anything but a sip of the Newark legend. Just quarts of the Falstaff successor. I also apparently didn't qualify because of my choice of hobbies, home brewing. But no huntin', fishin', drag racin', . . . .
