I used to drink RR over here in England but you never see it anymore – who knows how authentic our version was anyway.

I think its great that the rolling rock beer is finally being shipped around the world. I don’t know if it will be of any interest to anyone who add comments on here but a while back I found a British labels company who printed me some beer labels, as I had brought a home brewing kit and was selling my beer to friends and family. If anyone else is doing the same thing as me and want to make their beer a bit more personalised then maybe you should take a look on the site as their prices are so low they may be able to do you a great deal!

I had been a heavy drinker of RR since the early ’90’s, but recently switched to gin because beer and crossing the 40-year marker apparently is a recipe for a big fat belly…anyway, I digress.

The reason that I used to drink RR is that I could slam down unlimited quanities without getting even a hint of a hangover. AB products on the other hand were deadly for me the next morning — even on as little as a six pack.

I like to use the following little story to explain how RR “was” different.

AB products are the only “beer” that I know of where you can pick up a “cold” six pack, toss it in the trunk of your car with no ice on a 100 degree summer day, drive 3 hours in traffic to the Jersey shore, take the six pack out (now a very warm six pack), put the beer on ice, pack your stuff back up the next day, put the six pack back in your trunk (because it didn’t get drunk), leave it in the trunk all week (in the hot sun), take that same six pack out of the trunk the next Friday night, put it on ice, wait 2-3 hours for it to cool down, pop open a can, drink it, and have it taste the same as it would of had you drank it when first purchased at the long aforementioned liquor store…..THE STUFF IS PURE POISON!!

Try the same with a RR and it would be skunked after the first heating/cooling cycle.

Up until recently, I would get a “bucket of Rocks” at my local watering hole once a week. Recently I noticed that I was getting a nauceous hungover feeling the next day after only 6 stupid little nips. This kept happening week in, week out, but I just put it off as being too old to even handle a few……then I remembered where I had felt that feeling before. It was my younger Budweiser days. The same Bud feeling that moved me to RR in the first place. Oh crap!!! That’s right!!! AB bought RR and then I also recalled hearing about them scrapping the plant in Latrobe.

Well I switched over to Miller lite nips and the “hangover” symptons, while not completely gone are much diminished.

Those a-holes at AB are just filling up the RR bottles with Bud piss.

Bastards!

I can’t get Stoney’s here in Williamsport, but I can get Straubs and Yuengling. I’d say that Yuengling Premium is the closest thing to the original RR taste. All three of these are old regional breweries that are holding on against the giant beers. Straubs is a nice unique taste too. I recommend it.