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Monday, June 8. 2009

'Gansett

Of course I remember.


AVI wants some help remembering old 'Gansett commercials.


'Gansett, Knickerbocker, Rheingold, Piel's - I do recall them all. We are now just left with watery old Rolling Rock and the delicious Ballantine Ale - if you can find it.


The Maggie's Farm cafeteria refuses to serve fancy beers for breakfast or lunch, because beer ain't sposta be fancy (good stuff like Guiness is different - it's a meal, not a beer - and even more so if you stir one or two raw eggs into a pint for breakfast like they do in Ireland).


Wine is another matter.

Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink at 20:17 | Comments (18) | Trackbacks (0)

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BD,

You forgot to mention Schaefer....the noblest of them all before being debased. Brooklyn forever!

Your blog is a great work.
#1 RickinNC on 2009-06-08 20:44 (Reply)
Woops. Of course!
And thank you.
#2 Bird Dog on 2009-06-08 20:48 (Reply)
How could I have forgotten?

Schaeffer... is the... one beer to have
when you're having more than one.
#2.1 Bird Dog on 2009-06-08 20:50 (Reply)
Sorry AVI I don't remember any of those commercials. I do remember Narragansett, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Ballantine ( they owned the Celtics in 68,69) Carling Black Label,and Schlitz. They were always in my father's fridge.

Didn't Narragansett have a plant on Rt 9 in Framingham, Ma?
#3 jappy on 2009-06-08 20:52 (Reply)
In the 1970's that plant was Carling Black Label, which is what my grampa used to drink. "On the shores of Lake Cochichuate." I capsized sailing on that lake when I lived in Sudbury.
#3.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2009-06-08 23:25 (Reply)
That was Carling, in Natick MA. Remember the ad with a canoe in the lake at their plant? The lake was actually on the other side of Rte. 9, the pond was man-made landscaping.

Irony: Natick was "dry." One restaurant was on the Natick-Framingham line. If you wanted a drink with your meal, you had to retrieve it from the bar (in Framingham) and carry it to your table (in Natick) yourself.
#3.2 John A on 2009-06-09 15:06 (Reply)
I am sipping a fine PBR as we speak... each can a Blue Ribbon WInner!

I recall Old Style, Mickey's Wide Mouth, Genesee Cream Ale, and Haffenreffer. Oh, and when I hitchhiked to Alaska I became a fan of Ranier Ale.
#4 The Distributist on 2009-06-08 21:39 (Reply)
what do Schaefer Beer and sex in a canoe have in common? They're both f**king near water. My father told me that one; he used to work for schaefer in the early 60s.
#5 Thomas on 2009-06-08 22:09 (Reply)
I think it was Carling with the plant in Framingham. "From the shores of Lake Cochituate."

Was watching "Jaws" late Saturday night on HOBO. Classic shot of Quint (Robert Shaw character) drinking 'Gansett can.
#6 Dunque on 2009-06-08 22:48 (Reply)
Big Cat Malt Liquor : Living Social Beer. yeah... On your face.
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#7 Meta on 2009-06-08 23:12 (Reply)
Big Cat Malt Liquor is that the same as Colt 45 Malt Liquor?
I would never drink Living Social Beer, sound like a metro sexual brew.

Right back in your face. You big frustrated Robert Conrad wannabe. I double dare you to knock a battery off my shoulder. : )
#7.1 jappy on 2009-06-09 09:28 (Reply)
You knock that battery off my shoulders and I will let you wear my stilettos out for an evening. :} The red ones with sparkly heels. I'll have to get the dirt off them as I was using them to aerate the dog yard last night. You won't mind fertilizer in the toes, will you?

Pabst made Big Cat Malt Liquor. It came in big cans, and their ad called it the beer for living socially. Sure... one can and you were on your face. I never drank it, but do remember it coming out.
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#7.1.1 Meta on 2009-06-09 20:50 (Reply)
Omaha brewed Falstaff was the perfect beer. A 10 on a scale of 1-10. Nothing else came remotely close. Anyway, world renowned beer aficionado John Smallshaw has a website, [url](http://www.falstaffbrewing.com/index.htm)[/url] At this site he also touches on Gansett, Black Label, and Ballantine among others. If you are into the history of beer it is a cool site.
#8 feeblemind on 2009-06-09 00:37 (Reply)
I drank Falstaff as a teenager because I liked the name. Wouldn't have known good from bad, then.
#8.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2009-06-09 19:55 (Reply)
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.  >>> Benjamin Franklin
#9 RL on 2009-06-09 01:19 (Reply)
For me it's gotta be hoppy!
#10 apple pie on 2009-06-09 03:09 (Reply)
Let's see. You can have all the Narragansett and Curt Gowdy you want, but the Sox stink. Gansett and Gowdy goen, the Sox are great.

What a choice. Ohio is still PBR country. Take a shot of Kesseler ("Smooth as Silk") on the side.
#11 Bob Sykes on 2009-06-09 08:48 (Reply)
AVI- I don't recall the Nichols and May ads - the one I do remember well is "Hi, neighbor, have a 'Gansett!" That was the spot ad back in the mid-'50's when Narragansett Beer was the Red Sox lead sponsor on the telly. The delightful Irene Hennessey was the pitchgirl and play-by-play man Curt Gowdey would chime and say it at various times during the game, just as sponsors work in their spot ad slogans today.

I can still remember watching the games with my grandfather on the 12 or 16 inch screen in choppy black and white. When Irene Hennesssey would come on pitching the brew. Grandpa would get all excited : "There's Irene!' , he would exclaim, you would think he just saw a bare naked lady flash on the screen. The old man would be out mowing the lawn and tell me: "Come get me when Ted is due up". The Sox were painful to watch in those days, save the Splendid Splinter.

Self-respecting southern New England teenagers of the era were weaned on Narragansett GIQ's- "Giant Imperial Quart"- from the local " packy" until they moved up in the world of high brow taste to Heineken and Lowenbrau. Cranston RI, as I recall, was the 'Gansett brewery location.
#12 greenmtnpunter on 2009-06-09 12:52 (Reply)

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