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I split it over 2 days. Just a glorified malt liquor imho and for the first
time(s) in many years, I woke up with a headache. Fancy that! ;^)

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"Bill Becker" > wrote in
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> I split it over 2 days. Just a glorified malt liquor imho

You expected something else from A-B? You were thinking Elk
Mountain maybe?

> and for the first time(s) in many years, I woke up with a
> headache. Fancy that! ;^)

You apparently went back twice. Fancy that! Can't be all
bad, no?

We got a private tour of the Miller Irwindale factory several
years ago by one of the brewers. At the fermenters were a
couple of older fellows in overalls drinking beer - their job
was to take color and SG readings every hour. The 1.072 beer
in the tanks was supposedly The Stuff, and the two guys felt
they had the best jobs in the entire place. One of them
(allegedly) told me to tell Frank to come back by on the way
out and they'd have some High Grav MGD ready for us. Didn't
hear it (or, more likely, didn't remember it) and therefore I
****ed that one up. The list, she grows...

So I guess as close as I'm going to get is BPR. At least it
will be cheap, I suppose.


Scott Kaczorowski
Long Beach, CA

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""You expected something else from A-B? You were thinking Elk
Mountain maybe? ""

hey i remember that stuff!! i was living in MD at the time, it was
contract brewed by A-B right? that was 10 years ago...do they still
make that stuff?

as for headaches...i still recall the 2 night party with the Killians
Red keg when i was a kid....
worst headace EVER! then i found out it was a coors product...no
suprise there

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jazzkid > wrote:
>""You expected something else from A-B? You were thinking Elk
>Mountain maybe? ""
>
>hey i remember that stuff!! i was living in MD at the time, it was
>contract brewed by A-B right?

Not contract-brewed by, simply brewed by. IIRC the
Elk Mountain label (again IIRC at least an amber ale and
some sort of lager) was a failed attempt to take some market
share from the craft brewery segment.

>that was 10 years ago...do they still
>make that stuff?

No. Ten years ago is about right.

Incidentally, "Elk Mountain" is the name of one of A-B's
hop farms up in, er, Idaho. I once acquired a bag of Elk
Mountain Saaz for use in brewing. Other than being very
high alpha acid for a Saaz variant it was just "eh."
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