If you could bring back one beer

Tumbler is the first one to pop into my head. There aren’t many brown ales, annd it’s a style I like. Plus, tumbler was my favorite. Relatively low abv, highly drinkability and a good price point. Much like celebration for winter when fall hit I would buy it a lot.

Maybe my favorite beer all time would be OG Alpine Nelson but there are so many good ipas that I might appreciate tumbler more.

 

i remember buying Pete’s Wicked Ale in 12 packs of bottles. That’s when we wanted to spend the money and get good beer.

 

Anchor Steam Beer

 

Cigar City/Oskar Blues Bamburana, as shown in my avatar and below

 

Michael Shea’s Irish Amber or Michelob Rye PA.

 

Greetings,
for obvious reasons you weren't able to meet her in here...
She was so rare that I only drank her twice before she ceased to exist. And one of these was a bottle shared in the company of the master brewer (the legendary Bruno Carilli, now boss of Livebarrels) and two other people, in 2007.
In my imagination it is certainly on the podium of the three Russian Imperial Stouts I drank: estream complexity, a thousand nuances and yet none that contrasted with the other. Extreme balance.
A product as rare as it is refined.
Happy to have tried this experience.
I talked about the RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT from the Birrificio Toccalmatto .



Many would have appreciated it.

 

(Initial thought - "Not this again," but, then "OK, I'll play...")

1970s versions of Ballantine XXX Ale from Ballantine and Falstaff's Narragansett breweries in Cranston, RI. My "house beer" during that era, always had a case of deposit/refillable bottles around, even as I was exploring all the other US and imported beers available. (The current version (sad imitation?) from Pabst brewed by Molson Coors is an extreme disappointment, the only thing in common with the original being the label).

 

Stoudt's Honey Double Mai Bock!
That brew was my Mother's Milk back in the early days before it was contract brewed by Lion.
The contact stuff was passable, but not nearly as great as the brewery fresh kegs or the 750ml bottles. After Bill Moore the Brewer left, whoever filled his spot, the recipes changed slightly as well. Bill was a Master of crafting Carroll Stoudt's lager recipes.
Their Gold Lager is my runner up.
Honorable mention for Pete's Wicked Ale, but my home brewed clone satisfies my cravings for that classic.
If ANYONE reading this knows of a clone recipe for any original Stoudt's beers, I would be forever grateful.
Evil Genius, who took over Stoudt's beer portfolio were of no help at all.

 

While it might be 30 years since you've had it , it only disappeared about a dozen years ago. By then a brand purchased in the late 1990s by Gambrinus (at the time Corona and Moosehead importer, owner of Spoetzl, US Trumer, BridgePort, etc.) and IIRC contract-brewed by F X Matt. Before it's sale, Stroh (#4 in the US) was the contract-brewer and owned a minority share of the "Pete's" company, which never built its promised brewery. After the collapse and sale Pete Slosberg himself told the Denver Post:

The paper further noted that "...since the sale, he has all the appearance of a marketing tool, not unlike Colonel Sanders and fried chicken.":

 

What I would really like to do is go back to the early 70's, when I first started drinking beer, and see if Schlitz, Stroh's and Rolling Rock were actually as good as I thought they were.

 

Ah, yes. Back when their beers came in 750 ml. champagne-style bottles with crown caps and generic Stoudt's labels with a blank box for the style to be handwritten.

 

Here is a recent beer made with Pete to be a relatively close reconstruction of Pete’s Wicked Ale. Don’t know if it’s still being brewed.
https://untappd.com/b/prison-pals-brewing-co-non-compete/5152198

 

I've wondered that too, but our tastes have changed since then or we wouldn't be here. Stroh's would be at the top of my list to try. Most of my other favorites Like Stevens Point Special and Coors are available, though certainly changed, but I haven't been curious enough to seek them out.

 

Will stick local for my selections, the first of which I never had the pleasure of trying. Would be hard to pick between my final two selections, but going with 10/9 because I can still get A Little Crazy on draft.

One time release: Goose Island King Henry

Annual Release killed 2020: Spiteful Brewing 10/9 Bike Messenger Appreciation IPA - By far my favorite local WCIPA of all time.

Annual Distributed Release killed this year: Revolution A Little Crazy (should still be available on draft at the brewery/taproom).

 

Anchor Our Special Ale, will be missing it this holiday season.