What are you drinking?

[glenn57]

pfeiffers.......3 cases fer 10 bucks back in the day!!!!!!!! yea i drank a few.

back in the day........... my uncle who lives in bloomington was a high school math teacher...in the summer he worked at the schmidt brewery...they had the pfeiffers brand. he basiclly said when they ran out of the schmidt bottles, they'd put it in the pfeiffer bottles.

[Dotch]

A couple of my buddies in college used to drink Pfeiffers. Their motto was "No two taste the same!" We bought a bunch of Hamm's in twist off glass bottles from Sharret's on University and Raymond. $2.10 a 12 pack and there was like a $.75 return on them. It was like they were paying us to drink it. Drank lots of Schmidt back when it was still Schmidt. They were major contributors to the barley breeding program at the U once upon a time. My fave tho was Special Ex. We'd have our quarterly end of the quarter party in our basement apartment on Brewster St. We'd get 2 16's of Special Ex and finish 'em off with an 8 of Schlitz Bull. Guaranteed to end badly. 

[mike89]

sounds like it would badly too!!!   

[glenn57]

A couple of my buddies in college used to drink Pfeiffers. Their motto was "No two taste the same!" We bought a bunch of Hamm's in twist off glass bottles from Sharret's on University and Raymond. $2.10 a 12 pack and there was like a $.75 return on them. It was like they were paying us to drink it. Drank lots of Schmidt back when it was still Schmidt. They were major contributors to the barley breeding program at the U once upon a time. My fave tho was Special Ex. We'd have our quarterly end of the quarter party in our basement apartment on Brewster St. We'd get 2 16's of Special Ex and finish 'em off with an 8 of Schlitz Bull. Guaranteed to end badly.

:rotflmao:well......that does explain alot of things!!!!!!!!1

since the alltime blizzard is shortly upon us i should be safe from my mailbox dripping for a while.........

[Steve-o]

We my dad and the next door neighbor used to make a beer run to Mendota Heights for that 3 f'er $10 deal.  In the early 70s they'd fill the trunk of an old Plymouth Fury or Buick LeSabre depending on who drove.  I went along for the sucker.

(I remember when the neighbor's daughter bought a Olds Cutlass that had a trunk much smaller than the Fury - he called it the Buttless Cutlass.  But I digress.)

I remember hearing that story about the Pfeiffer's and Schmidt too.  I don't know though.  Pfeiffer's always had more of a bite than Schmidt, but that mean it didn't never happen.  I always liked the unsubstantiated variant of the story that said Pfeiffer's came from the bottom of the Schmidt vats. 

[glenn57]

We my dad and the next door neighbor used to make a beer run to Mendota Heights for that 3 f'er $10 deal.  In the early 70s they'd fill the trunk of an old Plymouth Fury or Buick LeSabre depending on who drove.  I went along for the sucker.

(I remember when the neighbor's daughter bought a Olds Cutlass that had a trunk much smaller than the Fury - he called it the Buttless Cutlass.  But I digress.)

I remember hearing that story about the Pfeiffer's and Schmidt too.  I don't know though.  Pfeiffer's always had more of a bite than Schmidt, but that mean it didn't never happen.  I always liked the unsubstantiated variant of the story that said Pfeiffer's came from the bottom of the Schmidt vats. 

my uncle swore by that process!!!!!!

[Steve-o]

My fave tho was Special Ex. We'd have our quarterly end of the quarter party in our basement apartment on Brewster St. We'd get 2 16's of Special Ex and finish 'em off with an 8 of Schlitz Bull. Guaranteed to end badly.

There was always one Special Ex guy in every crowd.  When I moved into my house in 93 the neighbor across the street was still a Special Ex guy.  I never cared much for Ex, but don't get me wrong, I still drank his Green Death and lived to tell about it. 

[Dotch]

The one Special Ex kegger we had was straight out of Animal House. People puking & peeing in front of the apartment. Old ladies banging on the floor above us with their broomsticks to get us to turn the tunes down. One of our married friends left the party with a large breasted woman, not his wife. Smashed his car into a power pole. When he got home he peed on the bedroom floor. His wife never let him come to one of our parties again.

One beer I really liked & bought whenever I found it was Schmidt Extra Special. Only bought the returnable bottles altho I vaguely remember it also in cream colored cans. Last time I saw it was in the late 80's when I got a case in Owatonna. A lot of turmoil & upheaval in the brewing industry since then. Have no idea who owns what anymore. 

[dutchboy]

Remember the Schmidts wide mouth bottle? Early Saturday mornings drink 1/4 of that and top it off with Boones Farm Tickle Pink wine. The breakfast of champions many, many a softball tournament weekend.

[Dotch]

Like

Fondly. Did many a 6 pack of Big Mouths between Calvin & Rugby ND on my way home Friday nites. Could shave with those bottle tops or at very least slice your finger off. Schmidt Light was popular too back in those days for those of us watching our girlish figures (or not).

[Gunner55]

  Yeah, sliced up many a finger tip with the Schmitty Big Mouth tops in my day!!  

[roony]

Basically I drink anything I can get my mitts on, especially today. Today marks 23 years since I smoked my last Pall Mall.

[LPS]

Congrats Roony and what a wise decision to quit them.  I quit in 1987 and was ready.  I had quit many times and didn't stick.  When my new truck started to stink like an ashtray it gave me more reason to quit. 

[roony]

I had quit several times. They were very addicting for me.

[mike89]

Basically I drink anything I can get my mitts on, especially today. Today marks 23 years since I smoked my last Pall Mall.

 

[dutchboy]

Pall Malls killed my dad. Or maybe it was the stress of going to work everyday and trying to raise a family while working 2 jobs.