Remember the Coors mystique?

I looked on Wikipedia, and I think I know why the taste is different now:

They started pasteurizing it when they went national. For anyone that has tasted unpasteurized beer, they know that there's a difference.

 

Ayuh. Born and raised in Maine.

Huzzah for the genetic inability to pronounce an "r"

 

Ayuh. Born and raised in Maine.

Huzzah for the genetic inability to pronounce an "r"

 

Tuff;
Strange you should be showing Johnny Depp photos as I just saw the second pirate movie tonight. It was a pretty good flick-reminded me a lot of the old "swords and sandals" epics of my youth except x10 what with the special effects and all. Amazing! I am generally bored with fairy tales and the like (yeah I've become one hardeyed SOB over the years!) but this one was pretty damn good!
So you are thinking about drinking beer again after dealing with massive alchoholism for a period of time? I would recommend a period of clarity (NO I will not say pig words like "sobriety") for at least one year. The book says three years, but the book people always overstate their case. Just let your body chemistry readjust somewhat-do you understand? These far right AA nutcases are still in the 1930s and have ignored biochemical research into the body changes unsensible alchohol use puts on the human body. To get your biochemistry back in line does take a bit of time.
When you do start using again do it Italian style-which is to say; "don't cross the 'I'm getting stupid' line." I've got a "no more than 4" rule but that is just how I do it.
You will have to find your own way as there is nobody who knows shit from shinola on this one. Other than a bunch of cultists who pretend to...
Tundrahopper
PS. If you find yourself back into your "old patterns" as the AA people assure you you will be? Well join AA!

 

You're forgetting something. We New Englanders do pronounce "r". We do it every time we get an idear.

 

whoa, this thread got to me, because we used to do just that...drive all night and chug all morning.


lately, i've realized a busch "40" works as good as any...and it's right across the street

 

Coors Lite is the only lager I drink. I like it because it is kosher. I dislike the political stands the owner takes, however.

 

Kosher? What, the Rabbi just waves his hand a blesses the entire factory?
When they pasteurize the beer, are the yeasts killed humanely?
Oy vey!

 

You would be surprised how much stuff is kosher. There are several certifying agencies. The most popular is the Orthodox Union. Look for a U with a circle around it:
http://www.oukosher.org/index.php/passover

Cheerios is kosher. So is Carnation Milk. Most detergents are kosher. Morton's Salt is kosher. So is Arm & Hammer Baking Soda. The list goes on and on...

 

I remember when it first became available in Washington D.C. during the late spring or early summer 1972. Only one liquor store on upper Wisconsin avenue was selling it at the time, and they were advertising this fact in the Washington Post.

So, we put all of our money together and had just enough for a case. We put the Coors in a cooler with ice and went to Great Falls Park on the Potomac and spent several hours drinking it under a nice shade tree.

:cheers2:

 

I went to Highschool near Golden, Colorado, in the '70s.
There was a Safeway grocery store directly behind the Coors factory in Golden. It just happened to be one of the places we could buy beer underage.
We were drinking the freshest unpasteurized Coors beer in the nation!
Fresh kegs were better than bottles of course...
Some of my friends dads worked at Coors and and it wasn't unusual for them to have multiple kegs in the garage that would somehow disappear

Also really cool were these 50 gal kegs that we would steal occasionally.

OOoo Those Highschool keggers...

I've definetly puked my share of " Rocky Mountain Springwater" :cheers2:

ZW

 

Remember the old Coors cans with the round pop-top tabs? They made great water pipes!

 

Ha! yeah never did that...:toetap05:
Cool fact; When Coors decided to change from the pull tab, they held a contest for the design staff and that one is the original winner.
The runners up got to take home a case of beer canned in their own design tops.
( My friends dad was a runner up, but I don't remember the design)

As I remember, the "winning" design didn't last long, as people with small fingers were getting cut. And they sucked for chugging.
I think they changed 'em to the large oval shaped later.


ZW

 

Used to drink American Lager I think it was 6 or 7 dollars a case.

 

Yes never understood the whole grass is greener somewhere else thing. In or around 1976 a buddy of mine traveled out west from Fla. he got his bogus brother to buy us 2 cases of coors, he taxed us heavily for getting it. Tasted like shit. Stupid teen age kooks, we did not think that in a beach town we coud get all kinds of good tasting imports. My buddy built it up to be like this awesome nectar from the magical wild west. After that let down the next big thing was star top heinekens from the bahamas. Years later I actually lived in Golden Colorado for a feww months the area near the brewery smelled like rotten grapefruits and the beer still sucked. Now there are small really good beer makers everywhere.

 

I remember living in Colorado in 1970 and I had to go to Iowa to my grandfathers funeral, hadnt been there in years and the first thing everyone wanted to know was if I had brung any Coors! Nothing about grandpa or even how you been. Personally I thought Coors sucked!