Beers you can't find anymore

Rolling Rock has become scarce in Eastern Mass. as well. Of course, there's only so much shelf space to go around, and with local breweries growing to the point where there's like one every 10 miles (4 miles on Cape Cod), it's not surprising some low-priced beers from other regions are disappearing.
PS: About 5-10 years ago, Ballantine Ale ran a radio ad campaign calling itself the original craft beer.

 

Interesting to see Ballantine still exists as a brand, even though Pabst makes it.

 

Harry Caray during his White Sox heyday:
“I went to a Cubs game the other day. You know, they play pretty good ball in the National League but they didn’t have any Falstaff in the ballpark.”

 

Rheingold?

 

Sponsor of the Mets!

At least, it was when I was a kid.

 

They lost the original recipe.

 

Strohs is gone. Piels was but came back.

 

Recipe: Line up 12 drunk guys who drank Shaefer and have them piss in 12 Ballentine cans.

 

That's a crime. Stroh's was a solid, drinkable regional beer. In retrospect they really blew it when they tried to transform into a national brand.

They had good commercials. And the Stroh's Runs for Liberty were big fundraisers for the repair of the SOL in the early 1980s.

This (is another) thread that reminds me how old I've gotten.

 

Alex was underrated, cool dog. Drank Strohs once in a while. Thought it was not terrible. Had a buddy who said it tasted like shoe polish.
Back then I usually drank Bud or Miller. Coors Light was about the only thing I would object to.

 

Miller High Life lately is marketed like an undermarket beer, and that's to my benefit. Back in the day (early 1990s before imports and craft beers) it was every bit the equal to Bud and it still is. I never once ralphed at a Miller kegger.

 

Lowenbrau in North America was brewed under license to one of the two Lowenbrau breweries in Europe, one in Germany and the other in Switzerland (I forget which held the license). Good liquor stores in my area had the Swiss Lowenbrau in addition to the American one, which was produced in the '80s-'90s by Miller. That probably means that the German brewer rented the label to Miller.
I think Miller's Lowenbrau was the closest any US macrobrewer ever got to a European pilsener style. Some craft brewers today nail the style pretty well, though.