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Anyone collect these? I ran across a bunch this weekend looking through junk shops. I've never had Jax, Grand Prize or 'Stag', but I have kicked back quite a few Lone Stars!

Cheers! :D
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If you want to try a Stag or a Falstaff just follow your horse around with an empty can for awhile then "bottoms up",,,I think you will get the idea that you arent missing much,,,LOL.
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:lol: :lol:
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Ok I have the opener, where's the beer? ::ds::
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Anyone ever try "Texas Pride" or "Buckhorn" before? ::barf:: I still remember when H.E.B. (a Texas grocery chain) stocked generic "BEER" with just those words on an all white can. It was Lone Star, right?

Oops, back to topic. Did anyone catch the accidental association in the first pic? Peanuts and beer? :wink:
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I think I've tried 'em all, except the "Grand Prize" brand - never saw that before. Out in California, Safeway used to sell a Brown Derby beer, for 99cents a 6-pack. Guaranteed to produce a headache, in every can.

Before they changed their name to Falstaff, it was called Griesedeck - my Pop just loved to order that. "Bartender, slip me a Greasy one."
Jax is, of course, brewed with genuine Mississippi River water. Bottled in New Orleans, at the wrong end of the Miss.
Worst I ever had was Iron City beer.

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JR, I never had any Iron City beer, but the worst beer I ever put in my mouth was Buckhorn ::barf:: ::barf:: ! And man I've drunk a lot a beer!
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My favorite beers were the beers I used to brew myself. Zymurgy (also the name of a magazine I used to get) or Zymology is the study of fermentation. Used to be my favorite subject after knives. :mrgreen:
I stopped brewing, sold my equipment (and my award winning recipes) and hit the gym after my belly done lapped over my belt. :lol: ::dang:: Home brew is very high in calories compared to store bought American beer. Very rich!

My favorite brews were an Oktoberfest (same color as Coca Cola so I bottled some in empty and sterilized Pepsi and Coke bottles), a Porter, a dark barley wine I made that was near 30 proof :shock: and so dark that if you spilled any on your clothes - they were stained forever. I also made an American beer that won many awards along with that I really enjoyed an IPA (India Pale Ale) that was highly hopped and refreshing on a hot day.

The Oktoberfest (when bottled in Coke bottles) was a deliberate effort to flaunt the law - to drink a beer while driving. :mrgreen: Me Bad!!! :lol: :lol: If anyone looked closely they would have seen that big tall head on the beer in the bottle. ::dang:: I also used champagne bottles to make large bottles of beers, about 26 oz if I remember right. Champagne bottles will take a bottle cap so they are perfect. EXCEPT if it was a barley wine - that would be a one bottle drunk! ::ds:: ::ds::

I also made wine and champagne BUT beer is far more difficult to make well. Since barley is what is used for culture mediums you can tell that beer is easily contaminated by wild yeasts or bacteria. Wine is higher in acid and alcohol so that helps and beer starts with a recipe while wine starts with.............grapes.

The worst beer had to be those 11oz. Lucky Lagers - tasted watered down and BAD!
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Dog gone it Hukk, all that talk is makin me mighty thirsty! :mrgreen:
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My best friend & I decided to make some beer years ago.
We visited the local brew supply store, known as Fisherman's Corner, (great product mix eh)?
We bought all the stuff we needed & a mix for Porter.
We decided we would double ferment it like a dopple bock.
Long story short: We bottled it and put it in the basement and left it.
We went down and checked after hearing a few dull Whoomps in the basements.
We had bottled it too green and I had to pick glass out of the floor joists.
The few bottles that survived had a good flavor.
One of us would open the bottle and the other would stand about 5 feet away with a 8 qt. pan to catch it.

We called it Black Powder Porter!

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orvet wrote: Long story short: We bottled it and put it in the basement and left it.
We went down and checked after hearing a few dull Whoomps in the basements.
We had bottled it too green and I had to pick glass out of the floor joists.
The few bottles that survived had a good flavor.
One of us would open the bottle and the other would stand about 5 feet away with a 8 qt. pan to catch it.

We called it Black Powder Porter!

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I've heard that story many times, I never had that happen. I had a spare refrigerator in the garage that I used to make nice smooth lager style beers, takes as much as 3 months after the original fermentation. I could lager a keg at a time - then bottle it. That was about 160 bottles (or about 70 champagne bottles - that's why I used them), actually 53 bottles per 5 gallon batch.

Actually I think they grow a lot of hops in the Willamette Valley up in your area Dale. They used to grow them around here in the Sonoma Valley and many hop kilns are still here.
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Hukk wrote: Actually I think they grow a lot of hops in the Willamette Valley up in your area Dale. They used to grow them around here in the Sonoma Valley and many hop kilns are still here.

When it is harvest time for the hops, the back roads are littered with vines of hops that have fallen off the truck.
I guy can pick up enough from beside the road to make several batches of beer!

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This one's not sharp, but it is a beer bottle opener. New Life Beer, Goenner & Co. A quick google search turns up the following: Goenner Beer Company, the last brewery in the Johnstown PA area, ceased operations around 1954.
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I like milk almost as much as I like beer. My guess is that this is from the Koontz Creamery in Westminster, Md.
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Here's one from the Schmidt Brewery in St Paul. They closed down in 1990. The Heileman conglomerate brewed it in La Crosse for a while under the name "Schmidt's" because - get this - they already had a Pennsylvania brand called Schmidt's and they figured they could save on packaging costs. Eventually Schmidt's became part of the Stroh's empire and now is brewed at the Stroh's St Paul brewery. It's all been about as traumatic for Schmidt fans as Chinese Schrades have been for Schrade fans. Anyway, here's an old Schmidt bottle opener from the authentic days...
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Nice ones, trail ::tu::

A couple of weeks ago I visited the Shiner Brewery in Shiner, TX. Picked up this 'brewery key' while I was there.
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We used to use Church keys to open beer, do you think a beer key would open a Church?
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CocaCola opener from 1950's
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G. Krueger brewed Ambassador Beer in Newark. The brewery closed in 1961.
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trail wrote:We used to use Church keys to open beer, do you think a beer key would open a Church?
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Trail, if you show up on Sunday, they'll let you in and you won't even need a key. :mrgreen:

Better leave the beer in the car. :roll: :lol:

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Here are a few I have. ::nod::








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Hey tj - the zippo in the scan is brass and one of their 1941 replica models. It's only a couple of years old.
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Here are few that I have. These are local brewries in my area, Northern Kentucky. The Wiedemann Brewery was in Newport, Ky. and the Bavarian Brewery was in Covington, Ky.
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heres my beer me!!! device........ a RAINIER carbon steel w/ sterling silver band w/ name..and stag handle 8)
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