Sweet, Sweet Nectar

[grweeds]

I'm from a very German Lutheran family, where beer was always present. My beloved grandfather, having the Depression-era mindset, would generally buy the cheapest brew available, real taste bud ticklers like Black Label, RW&Blue, Hamms, etc. Dad learned from the master about frugality and generally stuck w/ Miller Lite, Michelob,... After a friend returned from a vacation in Germany he was going on and on about the bier, and I got hold of my first hefe weizen- it was as if I had gone from a black and white TV to a freaking wall-size plasma screen! My brother and I now carry on the tradition of craving, consuming and preaching the wonders of quality beer to the world! ( I think our forefathers would be pleased)

[BluesHarp]

Indeed they will...indeed they will! :D

[fuji6100]

During the first half of college, I could not stand beer. I didn't realize until my 3rd year that maybe the REASON I hated beer was because all the Frat-brothers drank the bud/miller type swill. When I moved to Augusta, I befriended some people that drank some beers with flavor (Killian's Red, Guiness, Bass, Micheal Shea's Black and Tan, Dogwood, ect) and I fell in love with it.

Now, 5 years later, I'm brewin' my own and loving every minute of it.

I'll raise a glass and "cheers" to GOOD beer!

[Bman]

I discovered beer-well at least beer cans when I was under 10 years of age-mid 70s-when I would talk my uncle into buying and consuming new beers just for the cans-not hard knoiwng my uncle.

It was not till I was 18 that discovered that I liked good beer-yeah sure I drank my fair share of Old Milwaukee and Stag.

How I wish I could have tried the beer from those cans-many many of thoe breweries are long gone-Ortlieb's, A1, etc.

I may by from St.Louis but I can not drink Macro beers ever-well, except Molson.

So sad

[steveh]

Wow - Stag - a blast from the past! Back around 1986 or 87 I was best man in a friend's wedding in Lebanon, Illinois - just east of St. Lou. The reception was in a VFW hall (Belleville?) where the bar was in the hall's very own bowling alley - well, aside from wearing my Card's hat with my tux (accented by the tux's red cummerbund), I endeared myself to the locals by drinking Stag with them and buying a round for the house - okay, all 6 of them. IIR, they also had Fallstaff still available in that bar.

Oh yeah, I remember the Stag being pretty lackluster in its flavor!

S.

[guzzler67]

Bman, don't fret. Just make sure history doesn't repeat itself. Help celebrate and support the huge diversity we have out there now.
At every opportunity, I try to sample something new.
It is amazing the number of breweries that have flourished and fell both before and after Prohibition. I hope our culture prevents that from befalling the current generation of micros.
Cheers!