"Beer Drinking Dog" > wrote in message
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> Gregory Morrow wrote:
>> So Schlitz beer has been re - introduced (did it ever actually go
>> away?)...
>>
>> It's in bottles and runs about $6.50 for a six pack here in Chicawgo. I
>> succumbed, I bought several for our 4th of July cook - out.
>>
>> When I was a kid it was a cheap beer for old guys. Now it's being touted
>> for it's "retro - chic" aspect...big displays in some of the likker
>> stores,
>> advertising, etc.
>>
>> Whoulda thunk it...maybe next they'll be reviving Studebaker or some
>> other
>> long - lost brand names.
>>
>>
>
> A lot of the old beer brands were retained and sold in very limited
> regions. Hamms and Schlitz and Olympia are some brands that I can think of
> like this. I think they are being test marketed in broader markets now to
> try and regain some of the market lost to the microbrews.
>
> I bought some Hamms a couple weeks ago. I fondly remember the Hamms Beer
> Bear commercials from my childhood ("From the land of sky blue
> waters...."), but of course it had pretty much disappeared from the market
> (at least where I lived) by the time I got old enough to drink. To be
> honest, I probably won't ever buy anymore. It was pretty tasteless. Very
> bland and weak. But it was cheap! You can get two 12-packs for the price
> of one 6-pack of the trendy stuff.



Have a blast from the past!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o83xxWCel8g

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