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11. For me it's now that I can't go pound down beers and drive, I'll take the time

Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:52 AM

Apr 2013

to actually enjoy a couple of the craft brews. Back in the early 90's as a beer distributor employee, we hated the micro-brew thing. That was just yuppie stuff you couldn't make money on. Real beer was Budweiser. AB bought out Red Hook and made us handle that stuff. I can't tell you if that was any good or not. We never gave it a chance.

It's interesting how the trend reversed. The big breweries bought out and trashed all the smaller guys in the 70's-80's. Lucky Lager, Raineer and Olympia in the west. They kept selling the label but the beer wasn't the same. I live in a town where the Lucky owned the road. Old-timers swear it was really good beer up until the late 70's. By the time they were done with it, it was pretty much generic General Brewing Co. crap and you couldn't even buy a Lucky lager shirt anywhere.

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Hey Brokaw, Joe Scum and the rest of you hacks - do you know why small breweries [View all] malaise Apr 2013 OP

Oh, yeah, I remember the announcement that people could legally brew at home Kolesar Apr 2013 #1

There was a great thread on DU some time back malaise Apr 2013 #2

& Now we have the best brews ever made to show for the effort Kolesar Apr 2013 #3

Indeed malaise Apr 2013 #4

+1000 alcibiades_mystery Apr 2013 #5

Here's the original thread by GarroHorus Why James Earl Carter must be remembered as one malaise Apr 2013 #6

and the very best are right here in Vermont. cali Apr 2013 #7

Nice read malaise Apr 2013 #8

you're welcome. cali Apr 2013 #12

Lucky fellow malaise Apr 2013 #13

We made our own beer in high school. Throd Apr 2013 #33

Does anyone know if a pipoman Apr 2013 #9

I don't know malaise Apr 2013 #10

I work at a winery and we have to pay federal excise tax BeeBee Apr 2013 #30

For me it's now that I can't go pound down beers and drive, I'll take the time brewens Apr 2013 #11

Not just big breweries malaise Apr 2013 #14

General Brewing Company ruined west coast beer. Throd Apr 2013 #23

It's very interesting because taste is personal so we malaise Apr 2013 #26

They tore down the Lucky San Francisco brewery and shipped it off to China brewens Apr 2013 #35

It's Lucky When You Live in the West frylock Apr 2013 #27

Remember the little puzzle things on the inside of the caps? brewens Apr 2013 #34

loved those puzzles! i think that Ballantine had them too.. frylock Apr 2013 #38

K&R stonecutter357 Apr 2013 #15

How Jimmy Carter Saved Craft Beer malaise Apr 2013 #16

My stonecutter357 Apr 2013 #17

Sweet malaise Apr 2013 #20

I have a buddy that brews, last name Hemphill. His Black Death Irish Stout is brewens Apr 2013 #36

What a wonderful thread this became! JNelson6563 Apr 2013 #18

You know I've never seen a bad Jimmy Carter thread on DU malaise Apr 2013 #21

Jimmy Carter: Made middle east peace, saved small breweries and.... Tommy_Carcetti Apr 2013 #19

and he's a decent human being to boot malaise Apr 2013 #22

I assumed this was going to be a Billy Beer thread. Gidney N Cloyd Apr 2013 #24

Wrong malaise Apr 2013 #29

Jimmy Carter, my all time favorite president. zeeland Apr 2013 #25

And not one M$Greedia hack is brave enough malaise Apr 2013 #28

+1,000,000 zeeland Apr 2013 #31

Thanks Jimmy! NutmegYankee Apr 2013 #32

Enjoy malaise Apr 2013 #37