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"Carrying Coal to Newcastle"
This is from a hot 1963 Acapulco beach.
Can you guess what kind of beer that is?
Remember the old steel cans that are collector items today? Back then, lime and salt made it go down easy when it got warm.
Here's the really weird thing...we lugged many 12-packs of that beer from the USA to Acapulco. Very close to whatever is the world's
worst beer. What were we thinking??!
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Carling Black Label?....Yum! Even the lime can't help that.
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"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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Sure looks like Carling Black Label.
Funny how I can lose my car keys in two seconds.............but remember TV and radio jingles from when I was growing up.
Listening to baseball on the radio since I was eight, I remember a lot of beer jingles.
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Back again and Yes to both AKGringo and Hook...Black Label beer it was. I think it was on a par with Moosehorn. Why did we take that swill to
Mexico? Because we bought it for half-price from one of our group's relatives, a beer distributor. Even then, I think we got the worst of the
deal...
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In the fall of 1964 after graduating high school, my brother, a class mate and I traveled to Manzanillo for the winter. I had not acquired a taste
for beer yet, I did not enjoy even the Mexican beer then (although I tried to). Ahh....the days of innocence lost.
We were probably the only gringo teenagers in that area at that time. Maybe I can dig up some old photos to post, it was a different world back then.
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anyone who was in vietnam in the 60's remembers those rusted top tall black labels!
BUT, still better than 33! and I don't recall anyone complaining.
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33 - Like formaldehyde...but still beer.
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In Korea (1969) it was Old Milwaukee in 14 oz cans, or Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Never heard of 33!
I just remembered a tag line from a Carling advertisement, "Hey Mable, Black Label!"
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Brown Derby lager.....terrible!
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Brew 102 & Falstaff. 102 was made in downtown Los Angeles just south of the City Hall on the right side of the Harbor freeway. Had a big tank
with it spelled out facing the road.
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Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  | In Korea (1969) it was Old Milwaukee in 14 oz cans, or Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Never heard of 33!
I just remembered a tag line from a Carling advertisement, "Hey Mable, Black Label!"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUd6lYNc_EE
mabel's pretty cute!
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Guess we used to drink this stuff because it was imported all the way from New York City!
http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DRfc4InJ7shk
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I thought 33 WAS formeldahide (sp) Sure embalmed ya...
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Thanks be, we are blessed with many options.
Wine and beer are liberators of the senses, a means of relaxation and the celebration of life, but sometimes shows the darker side of uninhibited
pleasure.
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Even worser...Last year when we were hunting in Saskatchewan, couple Gringos (do they have gringos in Canada?) Were buying COORS beer from the local
liquor store at about 8000 dollars/case...
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| Quote: Originally posted by chuckie | | Even worser...Last year when we were hunting in Saskatchewan, couple Gringos (do they have gringos in Canada?) Were buying COORS beer from the local
liquor store at about 8000 dollars/case... |
Truly unthinkable, chuckie. Coors (Rocky Mountain soda pop) could be offered free in our neck of the woods, and would never leave the shelves.
Trying beers...that idea made me remember this one.
When we were teens and made a camping/fishing trip to Manitoba many moons ago, my buddy succeeded in buying us some Canadian brews to take along. A
24 pk of Calgary Ale...almost like wine, and we choked it down...whew..it was about 14% alcohol and cured us of any more beer experiments on that
trip!
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AND! The Alberta RYE! OMIGOD
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