Hipsters Ain't What They Used To Be.

[MarkEdwards]

Drinking Ripple, Mad Dog and Boone's Farm (I remember the excitement when they came out with strawberry hill) probably means your over 55.

[CorvallisCracker]

Never really got into the pop wines. Before I was legal, I'd take whatever was available at the party so, yes, I drank a share of it. However on 1 July 1973 (when I was 19) Florida dropped the drinking age to 18. I tried a variety of things, including some of those trendy new "light" whiskies, but quickly settled on WT 8/101 as my spirit of choice.

Beer? Didn't care for American adjunct lager. One of my favorite local spots was a Lum's which had a couple of German beers on tap, one being "Munchener Dark" and the other being Löwenbräu (this being before the Miller produced crap, which had corn in it). I liked them both, and could find the Löwenbräu in bottles at a couple of stores, so that became my beer of choice.

So I'd show up at parties with either a bottle of WT or a sixpack of Löwenbräu. If someone offered me Boones Farm I'd say, "Sure! Where's the water pipe?" :cool:

[ILLfarmboy]

Proud to say (OK... maybe a little sad to say) that I can no longer be considered hip. In fact, my hips seem to have all but disappeared and I have to keep hitching my pants up (over my stomach). Soon my waistband will be near my underarms. :frown:

Makes it hard to say that I have short arms and can't buy the next round...:shithappens:

I never understood wearing your pants over your stomach. I went the other way. But now my ass is disapearing and now my pants will easily droop but oddly are dificult to pull up.

I'm going for the middle aged gang banger look. (early middle age)

Hipsters, I didn't even know what they were till reading this thread.

[kickert]

Hipsters, I didn't even know what they were till reading this thread.

Don't worry Brad, I am pretty sure no one will ever mistake you for a hipster.

[SMOWK]

Nothing beats a cold PBR after working on your fixie bike all day.

[ebo]

Nothing beats a cold PBR after working on your fixie bike all day.

[tmckenzie]

We did not have a store in the flats, it was a place called rankins, and he always kept EW black for me, and I would always get a couple 6 packs of sterling and falls city in the short squatty bottles, that was fine stuff. It did not matter what you got, you had to wake him up to pay for it. We always said you could send a baby in with 5 bucks and it would come out with a 6 pack and the right change. Does anybody know if falls city and sterling is still being made? I think it was made in Louisville.

[Gillman]

Tom, I was just in Newport, KY and there are a number of Falls City signs still around, mostly on taverns or groceries. I've seen them in Louisville too where it all started. I haven't seen the beer itself in the stores but this suggests one old iteration of the brand (the pale ale) is back:

http://fallscitybeer.com/.

The brewery closed in the 1980's I believe. I used to buy it on the East Coast and Sterling too back in that era. For those who have a hankering for decent old school beers, I'd give the recreated Narragansett a try, it is made I believe in Rochester, NY (at the old Genessee plant) under contract for the owner of the brand. They took some care in the recreation and it is very good as is their line extensions (porter, bock are some).

Gary

[stevegoz]

Hipsters in Champaign-Urbana circa 1990 knew where it was at -- Carling's Black Label, Rhinelander and Falstaff were all consumed by the case, and empties kept for the return deposit. And 40s of malt liquor. {shudder}

[cowdery]

Falls City was from Louisville (site of the Falls of the Ohio) and Sterling was from Evansville, Indiana. Both are part of the Pabst portfolio.

[IronHead]

My grandfather was a Falls City man while my dad drank Sterling. I remember thinking Sterling was so horrid that I didn't even want to steal it for a cheap buzz as a kid. Maybe the old man was on to something there...

[craigthom]

The new Falls City isn't part of the Pabst portfolio, but it isn't anything to write home about, either: it's bother mediocre and overpriced. If they were selling it at PBR prices I could see it taking over the hipster market in Louisville, but it isn't, so it's for trendy folks with more money than taste.

It's contract-brewed somewhere else, and they've changed the recipe, so it only has a name in common with the company that made Billy Beer.

The city if full of old Falls City signs, the same way Milwaukee has lovingly-maintained Blatz and Schlitz signs.

[cigarnv]

In Philly it was Schmidt's, Ortliebs and Schafer ... 5 glasses for a buck on tap. For the ladies only the best... Riunite Lambrusco or Pink Catawba.

[sutton]

In Philly it was Schmidt's, Ortliebs and Schafer ... 5 glasses for a buck on tap. For the ladies only the best... Riunite Lambrusco or Pink Catawba.

[unclebunk]

Ballantine, Schafer and Rheingold back in my teenaged days in NYC, though my brother preferred Piels for .99 cents a six pack! (Wouldn't the glass bottles alone have cost the brewery nearly a buck, I used to wonder?)

[Josh]

I think we were getting Yeungling for less than $8 or $9 a case in the early 80's. It was a decent beer, and they had a black&tan bottling as well. It came in these short stout bottles then. What I remember most about it was my roommate leaving a swallow or two in the bottom of the bottle, and then slapping his hand down on the top, thereby popping the bottom out of the bottle just like you had cut it with a diamond...

[smokinjoe]

I hope the swallow was ok.

[callmeox]

That's funny. Josh, you never fail to entertain.

:toast:

Had to read it twice.

Jokey Josh is en fuego. :grin:

[fishnbowljoe]

As a teenager, it was a Stroh's stay cold 12 pack, some $0.05 cigars, and camping out overnight in the woods near where I lived. :puke: To quote a line our bowling team uses frequently, "Same as it ever was." Joe

[jcg9779]

Had to read it twice.

Jokey Josh is en fuego. :grin:

I can understand why you wouldn't get it the first time!

Just kidding, Scott!

[callmeox]

I can understand why you wouldn't get it the first time!

Just kidding, Scott!

I went back looking for an oral sex joke and found a bird joke.

:cool:

[Josh]

I went back looking for an oral sex joke and found a bird joke.

:cool:

I think that says something about you, Scott.

[callmeox]

I think that says something about you, Scott.

Yeah..."male". :grin:

[kickert]

must.... resist... taking... thread... deeper... into.... the.... gutter....

Damn you self-control...

[Ian S.]

must.... resist... taking... thread... deeper... into.... the.... gutter....

Damn you self-control...

You just had to do it...:skep: