20 Forgotten Beers From The 1980s, We Want Back!

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  • 20 Forgotten Beers From The 1980s, We Want Back!
    Travel back in time with "20 Forgotten Beers From The 1980s, We Want Back!" This video explores 20 popular beers from the 1980s USA that have vanished from store shelves. Discover the nostalgic brews that beer lovers wish would make a comeback.

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  • @klenmcrock5265
    @klenmcrock5265 2 місяці тому +85

    I want an old school Michelob. With the dark curvy bottle and gold foil top.

    • @Grodd70
      @Grodd70 Місяць тому +3

      just fit perfect in your hand

    • @bmphil3400
      @bmphil3400 Місяць тому +3

      That's about as 80s as it gets.....

    • @100aceswid
      @100aceswid Місяць тому +3

      Me too

    • @michaelkilbride6420
      @michaelkilbride6420 Місяць тому +3

      Michelob Dry

    • @bcd4562
      @bcd4562 Місяць тому +2

      They still sell it in Chicago at Binny's but you have to ask where it is.
      I was told they were bought by Budweiser. 😢

  • @RebelUntilTheEnd
    @RebelUntilTheEnd 2 місяці тому +44

    Let it be Lowenbrau. Haven’t heard from them in a long time.

  • @revolvermaster4939
    @revolvermaster4939 2 місяці тому +29

    I’ve had most of those, don’t miss them, but I sure miss the 1980’s!

  • @paulrash8861
    @paulrash8861 21 день тому +8

    Old Milwaukee taste like high school, any one ever call Milwaukee best as Milwaukee beast..😂

  • @jimdellavecchia4594
    @jimdellavecchia4594 2 місяці тому +9

    I'm 57 and a lifelong resident of Phila area. Schmidt's was THE beer sold at Eagles and Phillies games until the late 80's

    • @deanjacobs1766
      @deanjacobs1766 2 місяці тому +1

      The there was Joes beer, “ Ortliebs”

  • @truck57us
    @truck57us Місяць тому +8

    Schaeffer Light. Best lawn mowing beer my neighbor and I hydrated with!

    • @MaRkYWaHoO
      @MaRkYWaHoO 11 днів тому +1

      First beer I ever drank was a peel tab Schaefer can 😂

    • @stevenbaker8184
      @stevenbaker8184 23 години тому +2

      My grandfather loved Schaffer and Schwan's. But then again he like whiskey too at the same time. A lot of both. All day every day and night.

  • @rogertemple7193
    @rogertemple7193 2 місяці тому +5

    Awesome classic Beer and television commercials of them
    and they were and still very memorable commercials today
    Thanks for the Memories.🇺🇲🍺🍻🍺🇺🇲

  • @douglasw9624
    @douglasw9624 Місяць тому +7

    Dad used to like Olympia....also remember kids saying "rainier beer it comes from here" (pointing at their bladder) ha ha

  • @jimmysix4708
    @jimmysix4708 Місяць тому +4

    These brews are gone, but you know what’s still around? Busch and Busch Lite. Just proves that life isn’t fair.

  • @emeliomartinez9967
    @emeliomartinez9967 Місяць тому +6

    Bring back old school Michelob

  • @gregwarren8583
    @gregwarren8583 2 місяці тому +19

    You forgot Ham's Beer and it's Best! Song goes, "Hams the beer refreshing". Always loved the Hams Beer commercials.

    • @edgein3299
      @edgein3299 2 місяці тому +5

      Hamms is still very much around. Brewed by Molson Coors, it is a budget friendly beer with good taste. Not the same as it was years ago, but what is these days?

    • @paulmaddox8251
      @paulmaddox8251 2 місяці тому +4

      ..."from the land of sky-blue waters... Hamm's!""

    • @robertmoir5695
      @robertmoir5695 2 місяці тому +1

      Oh really gregwarren Even the one before Hamn s is the beer you v e been looking for I m glad there s something you really like

    • @robertmoir5695
      @robertmoir5695 2 місяці тому +1

      @@paulmaddox8251 Yeah !

    • @robertmoir5695
      @robertmoir5695 2 місяці тому +1

      @@edgein3299 You have a point What is like it was before ? Times are not what they used to be You know what I mean saying ?

  • @mauriceracicot6010
    @mauriceracicot6010 5 днів тому +1

    I miss falstaff! When I was a teenager, i used to have a pony keg in my back seat with a small hose coming out of my cigarette lighter with a valve! What a great beer with many great memories!

  • @JamesSmith-mz9ec
    @JamesSmith-mz9ec Місяць тому +5

    Rainier is still being brewed; I have a 12 pack in the fridge now

  • @provost5752
    @provost5752 2 місяці тому +1

    My dad wasn't much of a drinker but every now and then i remember as a child seeing him drink a Schlitz back in the 70s. Miss those days.

  • @stevenwilson9865
    @stevenwilson9865 2 місяці тому +11

    I also remember Mickey's Bigmouth and Bad Frog.

    • @michaelpatrickhamilton3384
      @michaelpatrickhamilton3384 Місяць тому +3

      Mickey's I see in cans I remember the green barrel bottle the big mouth bottles are back at Woodman's in La Crosse Wisconsin

    • @CEK0549
      @CEK0549 Місяць тому

      Chuggers​@@michaelpatrickhamilton3384

    • @area.man.
      @area.man. Місяць тому

      ​​@@michaelpatrickhamilton3384Just bought 2 6 packs of big mouth barrels in Prairie du Chien.

    • @area.man.
      @area.man. Місяць тому

      ​@@michaelpatrickhamilton3384I just bought 2 6 packs of barrel big mouths in Prairie du Chien.

    • @area.man.
      @area.man. Місяць тому

      ​​​@@michaelpatrickhamilton3384Just bought some at Kwik Trip in Prairie du Chien yesterday.

  • @dapawaz8310
    @dapawaz8310 2 місяці тому +3

    We drank enough Lucky Lager to float a battleship. When you couldn't see the puzzle in the cap, time to quit. 🤣

  • @douglaslindner3902
    @douglaslindner3902 Місяць тому +5

    Bohemian fire brewed Stroh's was the BEST!!!!!!!!!!

  • @marylist1236
    @marylist1236 2 місяці тому +5

    Stroh's made ice cream during prohibition. "Hey Mabel, Black Label"

    • @alfx5432
      @alfx5432 6 днів тому

      Stroh's I bought alot of it ìn my young years I hated that they changed the look of the can

  • @surfboy344
    @surfboy344 Місяць тому +2

    Lowenbrau and Erlanger.....I miss those beers.

  • @CEK0549
    @CEK0549 Місяць тому +5

    Beer in the US during the 80's was pedestrian, and only really Anchor was doing anything we would recognize as a craft beer.

  • @michaelpatrickhamilton3384
    @michaelpatrickhamilton3384 Місяць тому +2

    Thanks for the video Strohs beer I'm glad to find it again

  • @johncotter2008
    @johncotter2008 Місяць тому +1

    I remember my uncle R.I.P. was loyal to Rheingold beer. He never swayed.

  • @solomonkane102
    @solomonkane102 Місяць тому +11

    Killian's Irish red!

  • @BIGD-gj1vb
    @BIGD-gj1vb Місяць тому +4

    Michelob Dry. Please and thank you....❤

  • @ricker76er
    @ricker76er 17 днів тому +6

    Löwenbräu Dark Special for the win

    • @brianbarry5673
      @brianbarry5673 5 днів тому +1

      Unfortunately, Löwenbräu for the US has been brewed domestically since 1977. For my 18th birthday I had the opportunity to taste test the domestic vs import version side by side. American Löwenbräu tastes watered down.

  • @Adam-i9s
    @Adam-i9s Місяць тому +3

    I drank a ton of Old Milwaukee and Old Style in my 20’s

    • @bcd4562
      @bcd4562 Місяць тому +1

      Old Style was the beer of my Chicagoland youth. Do remember looking for the different people on the can!

  • @tubefreek869
    @tubefreek869 2 місяці тому +5

    They said old millwaukee discontinued its na version in 2015 then in the next breath said today they continue to make old mill, old mill light and old mill na. 🤣

  • @scottymoondogjakubin4766
    @scottymoondogjakubin4766 2 місяці тому +2

    Schmidt had the cool wildlife edition beer cans ! I believe i have most of them from both brewery's ! The iron city cans are really nice also !

  • @dallasmore6703
    @dallasmore6703 12 днів тому

    I remember all those commercials and I've had all those beers.

  • @BobWeaver3000
    @BobWeaver3000 Місяць тому +2

    great vid, thank you! most of these beers were terrible, except for funnel or shotgun or other forms of chugging...

  • @paulrash8861
    @paulrash8861 21 день тому +2

    Molson coors had a few good ones

  • @dw7094
    @dw7094 2 місяці тому +2

    In 1970, we had Old Milwaukee at Ft Bragg. It was $4/case. In Vietnam we had "33", which wasn't half bad.

  • @VlogLifeTV1
    @VlogLifeTV1 Місяць тому +1

    Iron city is still brewed and so is I.C Light. I drink it all the time here in Pa. !!!!!!!!!!! Got a case in the fridge as we speak!!!!!

  • @brucekish7576
    @brucekish7576 2 місяці тому +3

    Iron City Beer has been re-released as "Iron City Premium Lager." The original beer is still available. Having said that, their "Blockhouse Brewing" line. including a grapefruit wheat beer and a chocolate porter, are far superior beers.

  • @live_free_or_die7260
    @live_free_or_die7260 28 днів тому

    My family went to Vermont for vacation and I found a 12 pack of Schlitz.
    It was crisp, clean, and refreshing.

  • @sidneyvandykeii3169
    @sidneyvandykeii3169 Місяць тому +1

    Schmidts beer. We called it animal beer because of the animals on the cans.
    And Rainier beer was called "Vitamin R".

  • @markdunigan805
    @markdunigan805 2 місяці тому +11

    Schlitz slogan was "Schlitz today,shits tomorrow."

  • @warrenpeece1726
    @warrenpeece1726 2 місяці тому +4

    Augsburger. Heileman Special Export. Tres Equis. EconoBeer.

  • @06YZ250
    @06YZ250 Місяць тому +1

    Iron City is still produced. Your last pic is the current brewery just north of Pittsburgh.

  • @squidundertheinfluence
    @squidundertheinfluence 13 днів тому

    There were two Schmidt/Schmidt’s beers: Christian Schmidt in Philly and Jacob Schmidt in St. Paul. Schmidt’s was Christian and Schmidt was Jacob. To confuse matters, both ended up being bought by G. Heileman. The video talks about the eastern brewery, but some of the photos are of the midwestern brewery. One clearly says Jacob Schmidt on a building.
    Also Iron City was relaunched.

  • @colinmcdonald2499
    @colinmcdonald2499 18 днів тому

    Schlitz was brought back in the mid-late Naughties.. supossedly with its pretty solid pre 1960's formula. I drank it under the original Art Deco Schlitz lady globe light above to mirror at the classic Green mill, before I moved abroad in 2009.

  • @WheresHerb
    @WheresHerb 5 днів тому

    I was in a sunday softball beer league. Always had Old Vienna on tap.

  • @robertmoir5695
    @robertmoir5695 2 місяці тому +2

    Well when you re of schlitz you re out of beer and you only go around once in life

  • @IvanhoeWolfe-zn6fc
    @IvanhoeWolfe-zn6fc Місяць тому +1

    Now you all know you want Billy beer back.
    Nothing like sweat and pizz .
    You a beer sux when even near beer taste better.

  • @brianbarry5673
    @brianbarry5673 5 днів тому

    Little known fact: around 2010 Genesee was the largest American owned brewer. Pabst was technically owned by a Greek investment company. Boston Beer aka Sam Adams surpassed Genesee shortly after.

  • @mikesill1898
    @mikesill1898 Місяць тому +1

    Iron City Beer is still being brewed, just not in it's original brewery.

  • @stevenbaker8184
    @stevenbaker8184 23 години тому

    My dad liked Duquesne beer from Pittsburgh. And my Grandfather drank pretty much anything except Budweiser( with a mix of beer and whiskey).The only difference, for them my dad and granddad hated Iron City beer both. So good luck for that. Me Latrobe beer. Was good.

  • @deanjacobs1766
    @deanjacobs1766 2 місяці тому +2

    Ortliebs, Esslinger,Rheingold,Iron City, Genesee Cream Ale, Rolling Rock “33”, Carling Black Label,

    • @jacksons1010
      @jacksons1010 Місяць тому

      Genessee is still made, including the Cream Ale. You can also find Rheingold in the NYC area. Rolling Rock Pale Ale still exists…not sure about “33”.

    • @stevenselig3713
      @stevenselig3713 Місяць тому

      I'm in pa rolling still very popular

    • @75aces97
      @75aces97 День тому

      You can still get Gennessee

  • @stoneymcneal2458
    @stoneymcneal2458 17 днів тому

    Who needs those old timey beers when there is Boones Farm available?

  • @edwhite3767
    @edwhite3767 Місяць тому +2

    My dad drank Ballentine

  • @larryh.5229
    @larryh.5229 4 дні тому

    PEARL with a dash of salt was my dad's favorite.

  • @longlost8424
    @longlost8424 18 днів тому

    here in texas, back in the early 1970s, I remember seeing "buckhorn" (bottled in brownsville if my memory is correct) for $1.99/case while out with my grandfather buying pearl at the local piggly wigglys.... always been more of a shiner bock drinker myself.....

  • @kenth151
    @kenth151 Місяць тому

    Beer is such a competitive business.

  • @jimnden
    @jimnden Місяць тому +1

    Decades ago, when a significantly greater percentage of our population worked physically taxing jobs. What they wanted at the end of a long day was something cold and refreshing. The market delivered. Then the 90s came along, and a younger generation decided they wanted more varieties of flavor in their beer. Hence the rise of the craft beer movement.

    • @TheWedabest
      @TheWedabest Місяць тому +1

      Didn't the craft beer thing start in the 1970's? Some alcohol law passed during carter administration. Something about being able to brew beer at home?

  • @debbiep4647
    @debbiep4647 2 місяці тому +4

    What happened to Hams? They had the cartoon commercials on TV

    • @ieast007
      @ieast007 2 місяці тому +1

      Yep. I remember Hams.

    • @larryowens675
      @larryowens675 2 місяці тому +2

      I still buy Hamms occasionally

    • @TheWedabest
      @TheWedabest Місяць тому +1

      It's still made and sold. Availability is very limited!

  • @martinsbriglio8948
    @martinsbriglio8948 Місяць тому +3

    Bass Ale

    • @citythink
      @citythink 5 днів тому

      One of the world’s best and the world’s oldest trademark. Not sure the American audience would know it (in Ontario Canada we could get it in regularly.)

  • @oldschoolron8602
    @oldschoolron8602 28 днів тому

    iron city beer is still here in pittsburgh and for sale and if you want a schmidts you get that in western pa also.

  • @mallardcutter7209
    @mallardcutter7209 2 місяці тому +4

    I miss Michelob light. Ultra gives me a brain splitter headache.

    • @edgein3299
      @edgein3299 2 місяці тому +1

      Ultra is missing something. Carbs. Which makes it taste bad.

    • @stephenkehl7158
      @stephenkehl7158 2 місяці тому +2

      I miss regular Michelob. Ultra is pisswater.

  • @Payton3434
    @Payton3434 Місяць тому

    UA-cam is like a Time Machine.

  • @mellowd737
    @mellowd737 Місяць тому +6

    Lowenbrau..

  • @exexpat11
    @exexpat11 5 днів тому

    Bear Whizz Beer - It's in the Water straight from the Bear's Bladder.

  • @markceballos3193
    @markceballos3193 2 місяці тому +1

    Bring back Lowen-Brau beer back in the day best beer ever with the foil wrap ????

  • @jasoneverett
    @jasoneverett 16 днів тому +1

    Everyone knows Schmidt's is called "Animal Beer"

  • @booshandorkakow64
    @booshandorkakow64 16 днів тому

    I opened a Lucky Lager one time and it had a small rock in it

  • @bseer
    @bseer Місяць тому +2

    The video confuses two brands Schmidt Brewing of St. Paul MN and C. Schmidt's of Philadelphia. Both brands were strong in their regions. Schmidt's has disappeared with the Schmidt brand being part of the Pabst portfolio of brands. Given the lack of a clear history of each this is an easy mistake to make.

  • @BarryRiley-e8x
    @BarryRiley-e8x Місяць тому +1

    We are enjoying a craft beer renaissance. These old beers are going back to the Stone Age!

  • @timfify
    @timfify 3 дні тому

    Strohs beer has a taste and smell of strong beer it fills your nose and mouth with BEER instantly

  • @timelliott4117
    @timelliott4117 2 місяці тому +8

    Could you be more ridiculous? There is a world difference between a commercial and the actuarial beer. In general commercials suck , but are tolerated. I'm just one person, but the quality of these brands was tolerated because they are cheap. If they were all great tasting, they would still be out there. Beers and the commercials bring back memories of what we were doing years ago while drinking them, not the "pleasure" involved from the taste.

    • @edgein3299
      @edgein3299 2 місяці тому +1

      Most of the cost of beer goes into distribution and marketing. All things considered, taste is not too much different from beer to beer. But the ability to execute an effective marketing strategy and get your beer on the shelf is what differentiates a successful beer from one that is a footnote in history.

    • @timelliott4117
      @timelliott4117 2 місяці тому +1

      @@edgein3299 I think you're right. The cheap beers do taste alike. I didn't drink ST Pauly girl because of the hot babe. I drank it because it tasted better. There are so many micro's now who sell beer unadvertised they do well because of the product. What people drink is their business if they want PBR great its affordable. I take exception to being told I want skank beer to come back. It's like disco returning. Not to ramble, but Agusto Busch set the marker when he wanted to go nationwide and to do so he had to chill the beer and go to cans. He did very well, but arguably the product suffered. "Stay thirsty my friend"

    • @moffr08
      @moffr08 Місяць тому

      You mean like Bud or Miller light? Ok

    • @jyy9624
      @jyy9624 Місяць тому

      ​@@edgein3299you have been fooled by marketing - brewing is an art, but Coca Cola is a marketing juggernaut - American breweries used to be like French wineries

    • @timelliott4117
      @timelliott4117 Місяць тому

      @@moffr08 Yes. I'm not being critical of affordable beers. If I did a taste test of different affordable beers chilled the same it would be hard to tell whats what. I remember going to keg parties and if it was cold they all tasted great. I liked Genny Cream. When fluid is chilled the tastebuds constrict and you taste fluids less.

  • @cdbennett2008
    @cdbennett2008 5 днів тому

    They still make Schlitz Malt Liquor.

  • @lancenutter1067
    @lancenutter1067 20 днів тому

    There was a beer I liked from the early 90’s called John Bull. Gone…

  • @goatuscrow4135
    @goatuscrow4135 День тому

    Little Kings cream ale is back in production in eastern Ohio.

  • @johndcunninghamjr4111
    @johndcunninghamjr4111 Місяць тому +2

    What about Colt 45?😢

  • @donaldscobie8455
    @donaldscobie8455 3 дні тому

    Support you neighborhood brewery. Shop Local, Eat Local, Drink Local.

  • @brooksanderson1791
    @brooksanderson1791 5 днів тому +1

    St. Pauli's Girl!

  • @slabbyfatback2272
    @slabbyfatback2272 14 днів тому +1

    Wait, no "Private Stock"?? TF? They showed Bull but not Private Stock, wow.

  • @stephenbeattie8342
    @stephenbeattie8342 5 днів тому +1

    Red dog !!!

  • @markdunigan805
    @markdunigan805 2 місяці тому +4

    Zima better not be on this list.

    • @f87115
      @f87115 Місяць тому

      😂😂😂

  • @glennerd3125
    @glennerd3125 29 днів тому

    Stroh's.....I miss Stroh's and their Bock beer.
    Would grab a 40oz on Clark st before grabbing the Rock Island line train to Tinley Park.....

  • @jeffalbillar7625
    @jeffalbillar7625 21 день тому +1

    Does anyone remember the beer that had jokes or riddles in the inside of the cap?

    • @freadbred999
      @freadbred999 16 днів тому +1

      Haffenreffer, a.k.a
      Headwreckers, Green Monsters. They had the rebus puzzles under the cap. They tasted like doo doo.

    • @slabbyfatback2272
      @slabbyfatback2272 14 днів тому +1

      Private Stock-I can't believe they didn't have it on this vid!!!Malt liquor, they showed Bull but shafted Private Stock!

  • @jerseyforhawks
    @jerseyforhawks 2 місяці тому

    I think IF i smelled Piels today, it would trigger a memory.

  • @75aces97
    @75aces97 День тому

    There were a few nice things about the 1980s. Beer wasnt one of them, though.

  • @blove932
    @blove932 10 годин тому

    Pre AB Rolling Rock. It had a very refreshing and unique taste. The AB version is just generic beer.

  • @mjoet731
    @mjoet731 16 днів тому

    There are two different Schmidt companies. you're mixing them up - there's Schmidt of Saint Paul and Schmidt of Philadelphia

  • @MrSirMang
    @MrSirMang 4 дні тому

    Billy Beer!

  • @hawkfan72
    @hawkfan72 Місяць тому

    Beer Beer!

  • @kellybarthel8060
    @kellybarthel8060 2 місяці тому +2

    Common, no lowenbrau, meister brau, michalobe. Also how is it that pabst had the money to buy up everything, it is the worst of the worst. My cridentials ragining alcoholic drinking almost exclusivly beer for couple decades and no matter how broke i was and desperate i almost never bought pabst. Fortunatly 24 years sober and never going back

  • @dougbarkdull3469
    @dougbarkdull3469 Місяць тому +1

    A lot of these beers could be featured in a video entitled " sh** beers you drank in college in the 80s because they were 5 dollars a case"

  • @IvanhoeWolfe-zn6fc
    @IvanhoeWolfe-zn6fc Місяць тому

    Lone star is still being made.
    I have a case right now.
    Maybe you can only buy it in Texas?

    • @TheWedabest
      @TheWedabest Місяць тому

      I have seen lone star available outside of Texas, but that was years ago!

  • @martinsbriglio8948
    @martinsbriglio8948 Місяць тому +1

    Billy’s beer

  • @dmaschy599
    @dmaschy599 22 дні тому

    What ever happened to 905 Beer?

  • @mkogrady6078
    @mkogrady6078 Місяць тому

    Which american beers from back in the dasy were as close to continental lagers and german pilsners?

  • @zantar2482
    @zantar2482 7 днів тому

    Newcastle

  • @gpracer270
    @gpracer270 7 днів тому

    NO HAMMS? lAND OF sKY bLUE WATERS!!!!!

  • @samwisegamgee4659
    @samwisegamgee4659 21 день тому +1

    Hoeffenreffer?

  • @rodmoore1577
    @rodmoore1577 2 місяці тому +3

    Olympia is flat out the nastiest beer I've ever had! Bought a 6 pack once. Took one sip and couldn't finish it. I gave one to a friend thinking he might like it. He didn't. I just threw the 4 that were left in the trash. Yeah it was that bad!

    • @area.man.
      @area.man. Місяць тому +2

      Olympia was not that bad.

    • @rodmoore1577
      @rodmoore1577 Місяць тому

      @@area.man. I was a avid Herman Joseph drinker. When they stopped selling it here in Texas I wanted to try something else so I tried Olympia. I guess Herman Joseph was so good that anything else was a big let down.

  • @sithcat7025
    @sithcat7025 2 місяці тому

    Miller Red

  • @bujmoose3992
    @bujmoose3992 2 місяці тому +4

    No one misses those beers. If they hadn't turned into garbage, they never would have disappeared.

  • @adamberndt4190
    @adamberndt4190 14 днів тому

    Screw the beer, who's the hot chick in the thumbnail!

  • @allenwatkins4972
    @allenwatkins4972 5 днів тому

    Beer all tastes about the same.

  • @CityKid415
    @CityKid415 24 дні тому

    My pops bought a beer called naked beer. I remember you could scratch off a bikini and reveal a naked woman.