Mad Dog 20/20. Boones Farm strawberry hill. Andre champagne. Mister Brau. Grandpa drank warm Schmidts in the hay loft
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I went to a college party in the mid 80’s with a friend of mine, and we brought a pony keg of Schlitz Malt Liqour. The party was in full swing when we showed up, with all kinds of canned beer and liquor around, but nobody wanted to drink what we brought with us, turned their nose up at us even! Fine by us, we had beer. But then when everything else started running out, and people come around to ask if we still had beer in our keg, well now.... me and my buddy were suddenly everybody’s friend! We shared, of course, but there was a whole lot of begging, pleading, and maybe a healthy dose of humility, to go with their red cups of beer!Comment
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Colt 45, Gypsy Rose, Thunder Bird, MD20 and of course Boones Farm. Now how does say a 17 YO get his hands on liquor?
​​​​​​Well a friend/accomplice who lived in the projects. Single mother who let's say wasn't home too much. We'd call local liquor store. They delivered. Make order. When arrived, open door. Hi, my mother is in the shower. OK when you look back in late 60's a $5 tip to some delivery kid with a wink and a nod went along way.
The next year 18, a simple drive to upstate NY where drinking age was 18. Oh the fun. O'Henrys in Suffern.
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Well....compared to you retro-bates I'm a model citizen, but there was a sparkling wine called Lonesome Charlie that sent women's hormones on wobble. It was a razors edge thing of un-adulterated passion or death by crying.
....then there was the quadruple Rusty Nail binge at the Keg one night, I drug my face across the parking lot to get home that night.Comment
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rodkeary West Mall, we lived behind the plaza across the street. To this day I still find chunks of my skin there. Its gone, moved down to Sherway Gardens.
Dixie road I don't know whether its still there or not, think it may have combined with the Sherway location
Erin Mills, if it was the one across from the Chrysler warehouse moved to Argentia Road across from the Walmart.
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I could fill 10 pages here with my youthful adventures. 1989 When I was 15 a few of my buddys and I pooled our money to buy $101 of lion red beer and a bottle of Coruba dark rum. Faintly remember hotshotting the rum by heating and igniting it before swallowing. Apparently I started chugging the bottle I couldn't walk for 3 days and pukin up green bile. (My whole body was green). Took me 3 months to face just a beer. 30 years later I cant stand the smell of rum.Comment
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Natural Ice.....yep. The college days.
we also had theme nights - forts and forty’s! Schaffer’s and flannels, cheapest beer available, Mickey’s Monday, Old English something or other....we had themes for everything!
There were others, but I can’t remember all of them. But that was the cheap ass stuff we were drinking!Comment
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My story is as follows:
It was October 1988, two weeks before my sophomore homecoming. Me and two of my friends were looking to get some beer for the after homecoming party that was going to be at my cousins house.
We approached a Senior that we knew would get beer for underclassman. He told us he would hook us up if we gave him $40 dollars. We got together the money and paid the man.
The Wednesday before homecoming he told us to come to his house that evening with some duffle bags. He said his parents would be out.
The three of us hopped on our BMX bikes and headed to the south side of our city.
We arrived at his house and he said the beer was out back behind his garage.
We were excited with anticipation and told him thanks a lot and went out back.
What did we find?
In some tall grass / brush behind the garage we discovered loose PBR cans everywhere. It was like an Easter egg hunt. When the hunt was all said and done we had 77 cans of PBR in three duffle bags.
We headed back home and we decided to hide the duffle bags in the woods behind my buddies house.
That Friday evening me and one of my friends snuck out of our houses in the dead of the night and took the duffle bags to my cousins house. Her parents were already away for the weekend.
That Saturday night we got really wasted on warm skunked PBR.
Oh the memories!!!!!!!!!!!
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When Old Glory mentioned Knickerbocker I cracked a huge smile who could forget the long necks or pony packs. Then it has kind of surprised me that a couple of these beers have not been mentioned:
- Genesee or Genesse Cream Ale
- Falstaff
- Ballantine Ale
- National Bohemian "Natty Bo’s"
- Naragansett "Nasty Gansett"
- Pearl "Pearl Pop’s"Comment
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Hmmmmmm 121 responses in 24 hours about cheap crap we drank.....
ok, I’m in!
Remember drawing the short straw so being the one to stand outside 7/11 with $4. Hey man, can you buy me some Boonsfarm? Success and down the road we went. After each of us downed our bottle and were in no shape to think, one of my brilliant friends hatches a scheme. Lets go to Zayre department store and steal records! Well of course I don’t want to be left out of the fun so I follow our new drunk leader into the store. While they all picked out records I scanned around and got one synapse to fire off, this is a bad idea. Being the getaway car driver I decided I best prepare the getaway car. So I waited in the parking lot with the engine on and soon saw my buds exiting the store with a load of records under their arms. Two steps behind, store security nabbed em all and had them arrested. I spent the rest of the day at the beach thanking my one smart synapse.Last edited by smokenoob; August 8, 2020, 05:30 AM.Comment
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Panhead John I have determined that being an "almost" criminal is the best kind of criminal if you are going to be a criminal......
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When bucks are few, Buck's the brew -- Buckhorn.
We used to drink a lot of Rheinlander bottles in those heavy cardboard cases where the whole case, box and all, were returnable. We couldn't afford a cooler, so we'd just throw a couple cups of ice f
directly into the case, and leave the case in the back of the pickup so it didn't matter if it leaked.Comment
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Others from that general category are Red, White, and Blue, Grain Belt, and Fox DeLuxe. RWB as I recall, was made by and tasted like PBR. Oh yeah, and "Sit, Sit, sit, sit, sit, sittin' pretty; all together in Schafer City"Last edited by Murdy; August 11, 2020, 09:04 AM.
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A short history lesson first. My college fraternity is nicknamed "The Ques" (pronounced Q’s) and our fraternity colors are purple and gold. For parties or when any of us were invited to a party, we always brought QueJuice. It was generally made from whatever any three of us had in the fridge (wine, Brass Monkey, MadDog 20/20, Thunderbird wine, Old Heaven Hill, etc), Everclear 190 proof, and enough red wine to make it purple. It could only be made in a trash can and was brought to a party that way. Needless to say, grapes and grains NEVER mix well. One night after a very large trash can of QueJuice was consumed, several of us decided to go to Folly Beach for a swim (we were all in school in Charleston,SC). Eventually, everyone (girls included) were naked in the ocean. Things were REALLY getting heated up when the local police showed up! They made us stand there naked while they lectured us on how we were in danger of being kicked out of Medical University of South Carolina, having our parents called, photographed (naked) for a headline story in the local newspaper, arrested for indecent exposure and any other charges they could come up with. After tears from the girls and lots of pleading from the guys, they told us to get dressed and get the Hell off their beach. If they caught us or heard of us doing ANYTHING other than graduating with honors, they would personally come get us! They promised that they would personally keep up with our grades and would tell all the other officers in the area to call them if we were stopped for any reason-including traffic tickets! Needless to say, we all went home, showered, and thanked The Great God Almighty everyday until graduation! PS. I’ve had QueJuice only once since that night 45 years ago!!
The OmegaDogLast edited by OmegaDog12; August 8, 2020, 07:00 AM.Comment
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Not a Frat member, but we would definitely have Jungle Juice parties; trash can fulla freuit, Everclear, an fruit punch, apple juice, pineapple juice, orange juice, etc.
Usedta always be a pile o people at th very bottom of our staircase, next mornin, jus like clockwork, wonder why that was???
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Buddy decides to streak around the pool in Daytona slips in a puddle of water knocks himself out cold.
He laid there for awhile, finally someone thru a towel over him.
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My dad was a doctor, and mentioned taking medicinal alcohol from the school pharmacy for weekend parties. With enough pure alcohol, any drink becomes a party drink!
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Thunderbird and "Ten High" whiskey. Just don’t do it. Trust me.Comment
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