What Our Parents Drank.

[full_proof]

My Dad was a Martini drinker...Beefeater Gin and he passed the bottle of Vermouth over the glass...maybe a little fell in as it passed...He drank a lot of those...

My dad enjoyed Martinis, too. He'd more or less just show the Vermouth label to the glass of Beefeater on the rocks, with 2-3 olives (and a splash of olive juice). My dad was an Army Aviator in the 60s & 70s. After a long day of flying (fixed wing and rotor wing) he'd enjoy a cold Budweiser or two, straight from the can. I remember him having a salt shaker and sprinkling the top of the can (I did not inherit that practice, and usually only drink micro/craft beer). He also enjoyed whiskey sours with JD. We had wine and champange for special occasions and holidays, and I was allowed to sample and taste as a kid, having also enjoyed the cherries, olives and garishments from the mixed drinks. Writing this really makes me miss my dad (we lost him to cancer 18 years ago).

My mom drank less than my dad, enjoyed mostly the same things, with the sweeter perfunctory mixed drinks many woman (and men) enjoy. She turned 70 last December and keeps a bottle of JD, Kaluhua, Vodka, Gin, Rum and Vermouth in her home. Happily, she shows interest in, and supports, my bourbon collecting, as she bought me several bottles last Christmas. She knows I won't abuse it, which is not to say I don't occasionally overindulge.

Great thread Chuck!

[BourbonJoe]

My dad enjoyed Martinis, too. He'd more or less just show the Vermouth label to the glass of Beefeater on the rocks, with 2-3 olives (and a splash of olive juice).

Sounds great. Just the way I'd make em but I'd use just a bit more Vermouth. Now I'm in the mood for a Martini.

Joe :usflag:

[fogfrog]

My father bought cheap beers whatever was on sale including A&P's Tudor Ale. But when he got the good stuff it was Schlitz. Although he knew wines, he bought jug wine and box wine. But mostly he drank scotch. Usually bottom shelf half gallons.

[brian12069]

My dad drank Genesee beer. My mom wasn't much of a drinker unless they had a party, then she would drink Genesee too.

I still remember Christmas, 1973, I was 5 years old. In school, the teacher told us to leave Santa a glass of milk and a cookie. I got home and told my parents this. My dad had me leave Santa a can of Genesee and a cookie instead. When I woke up that morning all my presents were there, the can of Genesee had been completely consumed, and one bite had been taken out of the cookie. I just stood there and looked at it...I couldn't believe Santa had been in my house.

[SBOmarc]

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[Martian]

I never saw a bottle of liquor in the house. My father and his brother used to sit out on the driveway in summer during the 1950's and drink Busch Bavarian beer in cans. This was a common way to cool off in Texas before air conditioning. My best friend's father sat on the porch in the dark during summer and drank Pearl beer from bottles. I loved the smell and little puff of smoke when he opened the bottles.

[robbyvirus]

My dad drank Genesee beer. My mom wasn't much of a drinker unless they had a party, then she would drink Genesee too.

I still remember Christmas, 1973, I was 5 years old. In school, the teacher told us to leave Santa a glass of milk and a cookie. I got home and told my parents this. My dad had me leave Santa a can of Genesee and a cookie instead. When I woke up that morning all my presents were there, the can of Genesee had been completely consumed, and one bite had been taken out of the cookie. I just stood there and looked at it...I couldn't believe Santa had been in my house.

Oh man, we used to drink tons of Genesee Beer and Genesee Cream Ale (in the green can) in college. I loved that stuff...a great American beer!

[cowdery]

Genny Cream is my dad's beer of choice, so I still drink it whenever I'm in Ohio.

[Gillman]

Genessee Cream Ale on draft in big "schooners" in Rochester, NY is a treat. They used to serve it there with a head on it an inch and a half thick and I like the micros and fine imports with the best of them but sometimes nothing beats a schooner of Genny Cream Ale.

My parents liked gin at parties. Probably there was some Canadian whisky around but I remember primarily they liked Beefeater gin, with tonic water.

Gary

[brian12069]

Oh man, we used to drink tons of Genesee Beer and Genesee Cream Ale (in the green can) in college. I loved that stuff...a great American beer!

It's not available in California is it?

[tmas]

Oh man, we used to drink tons of Genesee Beer and Genesee Cream Ale (in the green can) in college. I loved that stuff...a great American beer!

I used to love Genesee 12 Horse Cream Ale back in the 70's. In the 80's they changed the packaging and I believe also the product which IMO was not nearly as good. Wonder if they still make it at all? Tom V

[ThomasH]

We used to get Genny Cream ale in kegs for our college parties. It was about 26.00 a keg in the mid 80's. That was considered the best beer in a keg for the money at that time. It got to the point that I was totally sick of it. If I drink an occasional beer now, it is usually Corona or Killians Red!

Thomas

[Jazzhead]

Going to college in the late seventies the ubiquitous brand was Genny Cream Ale. The kegs were the best price, I guess, and you could drink an awful lot of that stuff without getting hung over.

Growing up near New Haven, CT, I remember my grandfather would peddle his bicycle with two big baskets over each side of the rear tire, up "the Hill" to the Hull Brewing Company to bring back sixpacks of Hull's Export Beer. About a buck a six pack, back then, it went out of business when I was in high school. Of course, that was when the drinking age was eighteen, so I was well familiar with it. I remember toasting the last six pack of Hulls in all of Connecticut, out by the marshes sitting on the hood of my Dodge Coronet. A moonlit night spelled a proper end to the last beer brewed in Connecticut.

Of course, that was fifteen years before microbrews.

My grandfather loved his Hulls, but my mom and dad never drank too much. Two drinks were my father's limit, almost always a dry martini with zero vermouth. Usually Gordons or Gilbeys. He freely admitted to me that when he was younger he could never hold his beer, but in all the time I've known him I've never seen him exceed his two drink limit. My mom wasn't a teetoteler, but I can't remember any particular time I ever saw her with a drink in her hand.

[cowdery]

Genesee is still made in Rochester by what is at least a close successor to the original company. You can take a walk down memory lane at their web site.

[Edward_call_me_Ed]

I don't remember even hearing of Genesee.

Ed

[BourbonJoe]

I drank a lot of Genny Cream Ale when I was in my twenties. It kind of fell out of favor in these parts. Haven't even seen one in many years.

Joe :usflag:

[TnSquire]

My Mother and Stepfather were teetotalers. Southern Baptist are usually closet drinkers but not them! lol.

I remember my Dad drinking PBR, Highlife and Budwiser. Later, when we reconnected, I discovered he is a MM or wadka drinker....guess I won't hold it against him.

My 88yo Grandfather is old school Methodist and he is a teetotaler as well. However, in his younger years, he drank and he used to tell me stories of going and buying dandelion wine off a bootlegger "over in New Canton." This bootlegger BTW was an African American lady who he called "Aunt______." I can't remember her name. I will have to ask him next time I see him.

[OscarV]

My parents did not drink because it was a sin.

They were fundamentalist Christians.

So when I was over at friends houses it used to blow me away to see their parents drink.

And of course we would steal a beer when we could.

[TBoner]

My parents also didn't drink.

My dad would have a beer at my mom's parents' house once a year or so, usually Old Style, PBR, or Natty Light, depending on what grandpa had gotten on sale.

My parents still frown on folks who drink (I don't believe my mom thinks it's possible to drink to anything but excess), so this is a passion I don't get to share with them.

[straightwhiskeyruffneck]

mom never drank, at all. my father used to, and still does drink bourbon whiskey. i remember growing up as a kid my father bringing home a bottle of old crow or sonny brook. alot of time he'd drink too much witch he somtimes still does. he loves to come over to my place and talk whiskey and have a few rounds. he really likes barrel proof whiskies like booker's and george t stagg, just as i do. i dont really get to see dad all that much, but when i do we make it a point to sit down and have a tasting.

[full_proof]

My parents did not drink because it was a sin.

They were fundamentalist Christians.

So when I was over at friends houses it used to blow me away to see their parents drink.

And of course we would steal a beer when we could.

Alas, the familial and ubiquitous form of P R O H I B I T O N. Forgive me for enunciating the "P" word on SB.com, but the whole concept (and political impetus) really intrigues (and haunts) me. I can neither imagine—nor comprehend—living in the age of—or control of—the 18th Amendment. O.K.--I grew up in a remotely Irish-Catholic [military] household, but the whole concept of completely depriving me of fine whisk[e]y and other "sinful" liquids because someone is “offended†makes me want to take a drink.

[ILLfarmboy]

Alas, the familial and ubiquitous form of P R O H I B I T O N. Forgive me for enunciating the "P" word on SB.com, but the whole concept (and political impetus) really intrigues (and haunts) me. I can neither imagine—nor comprehend—living in the age of—or control of—the 18th Amendment. O.K.--I grew up in a remotely Irish-Catholic [military] household, but the whole concept of completely depriving me of fine whisk[e]y and other "sinful" liquids because someone is “offended†makes me want to take a drink.

My parents don't drink but all my grandparents did. I'm to young to remember what they drank. Whiskey of some kind and vodka is all I remember. I'm Swedish/Irish with a little bit of Scottish. I to find the prohibitionist urge a frighteningly dark aspect of human nature. I don't belive alcohol is sinfull in the least. Habitual drunkenness perhaps. No mater what any of the teetotalers might say Jesus didn't drink grape juice. It was wine.