Beers you can't find anymore

Cool Colt (the menthol flavor malt liquor)
Crazy Horse (the official malt liquor of the Washington Commanders)

 

Carling Black Label.

One of my father's friends used to drink it all the time.

 

Little Kings was one that was VERY popular in my college newspaper office on deadline nights. We had a long row of LK bottles lining the top of the cabinets.

Another one that showed up was Damm, but that was mostly so people could yell, "Give me a Damm beer!"

 

Norwester White Forest Winter Ale - brewery was swallowed up by Portland Brewing which was swallowed up by some other thing...great beer, all the flavor of a winter beer without being too heavy.

 

I had a friend whose dad always had a case of Blatz from which we could pilfer when we were underage. That’s a beer that tastes very much like its name sounds.

I began drinking beer in earnest right around the time of the Dry craze, and thought myself truly a beer snob when I’d order Michelob Dry.

 

Sam Adams Lightship Lager. Michelob Ultra with better flavor and ahead of its time.

 

For some reason they sell this at a little bodega on Cleveland St. in Richmond's Museum District.

 

The generic competed with Billy Beer during the Carter administration.

Note the address on the can: New Ulm, Minn. The old Hauenstein Brewery used to produce beer there. My roomie and I in the '70s would get get cases of Hauie longnecks for $2.99. It was a thin brew, not unlike Grain Belt or Hamm's. I suspect that generic can came out of the Hauie brewery, but I'm sure others were cranking the generic product out around the country.

Miller may have had a hand in Hauenstein's distribution, since there's no reason an indie like that would have been widely distributed near me. And beers like the generic are often contracted out (although more often it's the little guy getting the big producer to brew beer for them).

New Ulm has another brewery that survives, August Schell. It produces some OK craft beers and recently acquired the Grain Belt label, according to their website. I used to see a limited selection of their beers around here (SE Wisconsin), but not so much these days.

 

I haven’t seen a Molson Golden in forever in Canada. My dad once ripped into one of my brothers for having been seen drinking one, when “everyone knows it’s beer for women.”

 

Schlitz

 

Made a comeback up here among the hipsters several years ago, still around, not a bad beer on a hot day.

 

I'm not sure I've seen Henry Weinhard's anywhere in the southeast.