Has anybody seen Schlitz beer lately?

Shows limited quantity at my local Total wine. Came up on Walmart search but the 10 closest ones did not have it in stock. Best of luck.

 

LOL!

Does Yuengling distribute Lord Chesterfield down to Maryland?

Cheers!

 

Still seeing it here in the Quad Cities area at Hy-Vee stores. 6 packs of 12 oz bottles and 6 packs of 16 oz cans. Plus, a local nano brewery, Radicle Effect, has it on tap all the time.

 

My grandfather was born in 1935 and it’s been his favorite beer for forever. No matter how into craft I get there’s nothin better than kicking it back with him (he’s going strong for a dude about to turn 88) and tossing down a Schlitz.

 

It feels like there is quite a jump from spending $100-$150 a week on a case of beer to wanting to add some Schlitz to the mix to bring costs down. There are LOTS of beer options that exist between $25 four packs and Schlitz/Genesee.

Just for an example, you can get a case of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale for $26. To each their own, but one could certainly get their costs way down by considering the merits of such options over the $25 four packs.

 

I think most total wines carry stroh's, which was my go to cheap beer.

Another option would be to just start liking a flagship from a bigger craft brewer that you can get by the 12 pack and just start mixing in a 4 or 6 pack of something else. Picked up my 12 of Two Hearted and an overpriced 4 pack of local for under 40 earlier today.

 

Not sure about that but Miller High Life cold and in clear bottles is a damn good sub.

 

I looked hard at a sixer of Schiltz longnecks on 44th Street in Grand Rapids, MI today. So to answer your question OP. Yes.
I wish Schiltz would offer a 24 pack of cans or even a 12 of cans/bottles and I would pick it up more often than I do.

 

My local craft beer store sadly pulled their six pack of Schlitz.

When I look at our TW equivalent Binny’s, I see availability at only several among dozens, perhaps close out stock.

Don’t see it at the few Jewel (Albertsons) online that I checked, but do see at the local Garfield’s (not sure how fresh).

It would be sad to lose both Schlitz and Michelob in the same year. I also like Moosehead, Old Style and Budweiser in terms of beers in that category (affordable, decent AALs / ALs), but Schlitz has been my favorite of the group.

 

Good on them, that is awesome!!

I had it on draft years ago in Baton Rouge at a pizza place called Schlitz & Giggles, good beer/pizza & good time!...Wonder if that place is still kickin?

 

Thirded. MHL is the bees knees of AAL.

I think that means it's awesome!

 

Looks like Pabst - which owns the Schlitz trademark - isn't totally giving up on the brand, recently they got label approvals for Schlitz Bold Lager and Schlitz High Gravity to be brewed at the City breweries in Latrobe and Memphis, using an updated image of the "Bull" from the Schlitz Malt Liquor brand. (Pabst executives now are among the owners of City).

The Pabst Brewing Co. has been relatively unsuccessful trying to duplicate the type of success of the revival of the Pabst Blue Ribbon brand had (which, of course, they had little to do with initially). The Ballantine ales, Primo, Schaefer, Krausened Old Style, Pearl, etc., didn't do much (and I'm sure I missed a few). They they gave up on Olympia and Rainier Ale, and did not renew their license for the Piels brand.

I guess Lone Star is doing OK - reports are it sold better than Yuengling did in Texas, despite all the promotional money Molson Coor and Yuengling put into the brand's intro in the state.

 

Also, yes I have. I might go buy some now.

 

You have enough money to spend $100-$150 per week on beer but also need recommendations on cheap beer. Smells like bullshit.

 

I'm not sure that buying expensive beer means one is knowledable about cheap beer (does a Lamborghini owner know if a Kia or Hyundai is the better choice for his kid?) but the way I read the OP, he's looking for a particular brand, not asking for recs...

 

From my limited Texas experience, it would seem like Yuengling's main barrier would be that Shiner Bock was already filing the market segment they normally fit into.

 

How are you getting Schilling beers in Maryland?

 

Yuengling has been available in Texas for some time:

“Brewed in Fort Worth, Texas, Yuengling arrived in the state with much fanfare in August 2021.”

And now that have a promotion to “Keep Texas Beautiful”



https://www.yuengling.com/news/yuengling-and-keep-texas-beautiful-announce-official-partnership/

Maybe Yuengling sales will increase there?

Cheers!

 

Yep. Schlitz is such an icon through American beer history that it is really hard to finally just kill it. My Dad drank Schlitz often and it was in the fridge, so I had a "few" here and there. I haven't seen it around here lately either. Time moves along.....Hamm's, Miller, and Blue Ribbon are to me adequate "industrial" choices. This ain't no rocket surgery!

 

Yeah, the Pabst/Lone Star (snarky) comment was directed at Yuengling's poor showing as of late, not a comment specifically on why they're having trouble.

Pabst's Lone Star is brewed in the same MC brewery in Ft. Worth, of course.

GBH also covered the competition with Spoetzl's Shiner Bock.

But it appears that the Molson Coors Yuengling JV isn't giving up on the second largest beer market in the US:

 

Yeah, shipping beer adds a good amount of cost. I was in NH at the Schilling brewery last Fall and brought home a case of beer - they definitely brew some tasty traditional lagers.

I don't know if you prefer light or dark lagers but I was just driving through Maryland last week and picked up some cans at Cushwa Brewing - their Earthy Riches Czech Dark Lager was very good and only $10 for a 6 pack. Also in the past I have enjoyed Union's Blackwing Schwarzbier which I think was pretty reasonable.

Sounds like you are probably closer to VA than PA, but if you are a Schilling fan, if you ever get to the Philly area, but sure to check out Human Robot. They have a similar focus. https://www.humanrobotbeer.com/

 

How are we this far into the thread and no one has mentioned Natty Boh?!? I mean, I assume the OP is aware of it being from Maryland but I would think that it would be a great, local, affordable beer option to fill in the gaps between $20 4 packs. Otherwise, Genny red eye and Cream Ale are great!

 

OP - in the absence of finding Schlitz:

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

W. C. Fields

...I certainly like the other suggested options for Genesee Cream Ale, Stroh's, and Lord Chesterfield Ale...

 

Well...

 

I went through an adjunct lager (AAL) phase in the 70s, but was cured by about 1980. After that I would only drink AAL when at a restaurant or bar with a short beer menu. With the exception of Bohemia Clara/Pilsener (very good!) on a visit to Mexico, I have not bought (or drunk) an AAL in a couple of decades.

 

...I still like it quite a bit and have initiated a couple of trades just to get it (believe it or not)...and one fine BA (@jkblr) kindly sent a sixer this past August out of the blue...we used to see it in Colorado when I first got here, probably had Schlitz in distro, too, but no longer...

 

Schlitz Gusto was a mainstay of mine for the relatively short time it was available locally.

All this talk aboot Miller High Life in bottles being so good. I don't get it. Shrugs.