Blue Collar Beers: Your Faves

[greekspeak]

Some of these are gone but not forgotten. I am drinking a Blue Collar Beer right now and I do it quite often.

[Coastie for Truth]

1. Iron City (Rolling Rock is suits' beer, Iron is a hard hat beer)

[Ksec]

2. Iron City beer

You cant get anymore blue collar than Iron City, brewed in Pittsburgh PA.

Gimme an Iron !

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[Ksec]

4. Duke is also pretty lunch box

[Coastie for Truth]

36. In college we always had Bud

but when I had my summer job in "The Mill" we used to go across 8th Avenue and have "Two Irons and two sausages and fries" -- Iron sure went good with those Homestead sausages. :)

Love them Bucs - and Steelers - and Penguins - (and Panthers, Tartans and Dukes) and Rege Cordic and "Frothingshlosh Pale Stale Ale with the Foam On The Bottom."

[48pan]

3. The PBR brewery is long gone, but they're still...

contract brewing it in Pittsburgh.

[Initech]

5. I love a good PBR.

[Lauri16]

6. Stroh's

Light.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

7. I've always been partial to Old Style

Unfortunately, I can't find it anywhere on the East Coast.

Must be a Chicago/Midwestern thing.

[greekspeak]

8. I forgot to say which is my favorite...Shampagnya of Beers!

I like Miller Highlife Best. It is the Shampagnya of Beers ya know! But my baby convinced me to get some PBR last night at the store. I still like the Miller Highlife

[Dave Reynolds]

9. There used to be a cheap beer called Buckhorn,

I liked it way back when and would not mind finding it now.

[ironflange]

10. I'm glad I live in Canada for this one

Kokanee!

[HEyHEY]

11. Labbat Blue, Kokanee

[Eagle_Eye]

12. I drank Olympian when I lived in California. I drank National Bohemian

when I lived in Maryland. Now I pretty much drink Molson's Golden or Canadian whiskey.

[amazona]

13. should I be the first to say it?

F*** that s***! Pabst Blue Ribbon!

[Wapsie B]

14. Schaefer's wasn't bad

when we could get it around here.

[benny05]

15. But the light beer of that is gosh-awful

My dad drank that in his later years...not too good

[Wapsie B]

17. Light of almost any brew

doesn't thrill me. If I drink beer I want the alcohol.

[benny05]

18. That's It

No unleaded for me...LOL

[flvegan]

24. Amstel Light is Heineken (light). I'm a big Amstel fan.

I think it has all the alcohol that a Heiny does.

[Wapsie B]

25. I'll have to try one of those.

[flvegan]

28. If you regret it, I'll buy you one of your choice.

[benny05]

16. Shiner Bock in Texas

It's become the blue collar beer as much as Bud

[Coastie for Truth]

33. What is Lone Star in Long Neckers?

I was in the service with a bunch of guys from both Texas A&M (my Commanding Officer was an "Aggie" - a damn fine gentleman and a fine engineer) and Prairie View -- and they swore by "Lone Star - but it's got to be in a Long Necker".

Goes great with Tex Mex food.

[davsand]

19. UAW represents workers at Miller breweries in some places.

The UAW represents workers at Miller breweries in California, Wisconsin and Trenton, Ohio. The union, however, doesn't represent workers at other breweries in the United States.

I figure if it is MADE by union brothers and sisters it is a product for me or any other blue collar babe/union maid.


Laura

[BearClaws]

20. Lucky Lager in the bottle...

With the "Concentration" game under the cap!

[flvegan]

21. How about Yeungling?

Tasty, local, inexpensive.

[Coastie for Truth]

32. I remember that from my days in the Syracuse-Binghamton-Scranton

area. Is that a Scranton beer ? Or York?

I haven't seen outside of the I-81 Corridor (but then again, I haven't really looked for it).

My nephew in Philadelphia likes it.

[Catch22Dem]

22. They're all still around aren't they?

I think the only thing I haven't seen recently is Hamms.

[greekspeak]

23. I was reading about Falstaff last night and they JUST stopped making it

I had also thought Schlitz was gone, but I saw some last night.

[Catch22Dem]

26. Well, I'll be damned.

Can I be honest with you? I always liked Schlitz. Not the Schlitz Malt Liquor shit, but regular Schlitz Beer ("the beer that made Milwaukee famous.")

[greekspeak]

29. My stepbrother's dad used to get Schlitz in kegs but they stopped

They said they didn't make Schlitz any longer. I just took their word for it. But there it was, in the cooler, big as life, not 24 hours ago. Maybe that will be my next beer purchase!

[Lannes]

27. I drank Hamm's sometimes when I lived up north

But my favorite blue collar beer is Old Milwaukee

[njdemocrat106]

30. Ballantine Ale

"Flash the three-ring sign and ask the man for Ballantine" as old-time New York Yankees announcer Mel Allen would say. I love Pabst, as well.

[obxhead]

31. Newcastle

[Strawman]

34. Is Blatz still around?

[dean_dem]

35. My vote goes to the Champagne of Beers

[Bluzmann57]

37. Good ol' PBR

Yep, just like John Kerry (allegedly) did, I throw back a few Ribbons from time to time. But now that I'm older and wiser(?), I drink a particular brand of Light beer more often than not.

[dajoki]

38. yuengling

america's oldest brewery, pottsville, pa:beer: