32oz Bomber

Not so fast there. Warbeard and Robtimus are also good.

 

D'oh! While I was typing that, I knew it didn't seem right, but I was too lazy to get up and check the empty Harvest bottle in my recycling. Carry on...

 

Yuengling has been selling beer in quart bottles for a while.

 

The quarts are sick, but haven't been around much here.

Hoping I can still buy sixers of Sucks this season.

 

Sucks is incredible but the 32oz format needs to go. Just way too much beer. They could sell 22oz bottles for $5.

 

Yeah. I'm not sure why that other guy commented about how great the price was. That price point is awful.

 

I wish I drank beer as Slick Rick as you. I'd weigh 20 pounds less and could run a mile every morning if I thought 32 ounces was "way to much beer".

 

Too much for one sitting at least.

 

7.99 for 32 oz of sucks is definitely not beyond great, when whole foods gets them in stock its 8.99 for a 6er

 

Apparently, quarts of beer used to be quite popular. My old man still calls pints of beer, "half quarts".

 

Yeah, I'm always shocked when the topic comes up and folks here on BA don't even know to call them "quarts". Used to be that most US brewers in the pre-craft era put at least some of their beers in quart bottles - certainly most flagship beers also came in quarts from AAL breweries in the US. Quarts were first pushed heavily during WWII (when most bottles were still returnable) to save steel since fewer crowns were needed for the same amount of beer.

As "throw-away" bottles started to increase in popularity during the 50s and 60s, the throw-away quart was an attractive consumer choice - since they were essentially "buying the bottle", too - the quart mean paying for less glass, more beer.
Here are the stats from 1958 for example - almost the same amount of beer was put in non-returnable quarts as n/r 12's.

(unit of measure = 1,000 barrels)​

...but, as you can see from above, the national "Package Mix" was still heavily dominated by the returnable bottle at the time:

Returnable Bottle = 56.4%
Metal Can = 38 %
1-Way Bottle = 5.6%​

Yeah, in the US at the time, "pint" was most often used as a diminutive term in casual conversation (think "pint-sized") .

Combined with the fact that the industry itself had often used the term "pint" for the standard 12 oz. bottle (see for example PA's distributor Larlick's receipts), the early 16 oz. cans were typically labeled "half quart".

 

What I meant was the vast majority of BA members haven't heard of Walnut River, it's not widely distributed that I know of. I wasn't making a comment on the quality of their lineup.