What was your go-to crappy college beer?

[cyclonesurveyor]

I drank it all. but the faves were MGD and HGD (that would be Hamms Golden Draft)

They stopped selling it in Ames around 1999 but could still find it in Boone and Decorah up til I graduated in '01.

 

[DoctorUncle]

schmidt, stroh's, dog style and old swill. among others.

 

[urb1]

Old Mil - $1.39 a six pack in bottles while at ISU. At that time (late 70's), about all the bars carried on tap was PBR and Olympia.

 

[cmjh10]

Water

 

[Jambalaya]

milwaukee's best
Old Style lite
Miller Lite
Bud Light
Busch lite

 

[Bobber]

In the late 80's a case of Coors lite long net bottles from the Keg Shop was our go to option. Think they were like $12 a case or something. Remember one time trying to save some money and got a case of Dubuque Star and have never forgotten how horrible that stuff was. Think we had a couple bottles and went back and bought a case of Coors Light (for two of us). Man we drank a lot of beer back in the day....

Is the Keg Shop still going?

 

[LindenCy]

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[ImJustKCClone]

Schmidt Beer. AKA "Animal Beer" because the cans had pictures of big game animals (elk, deer, bear, moose, Rocky Mountain sheep, etc) on them. Rainier & Oly (Olympia) were also cheap, but you could buy animal beer by the case much more cheaply.

 

[CYme]

Beast light until I found Leinenkugels in bar boxes.

 

[cycloner29]

Grain Belt "Been a long time a brewin". In clear glass bottles. Also Schaefer light and Black Label. Dang Bud and Bud Light was the good beer back in mid-late eighties.

 

[jcyclonee]

Busch light was dirt cheap in the late 80s. For some reason they started marketing it as a mid premium beer. So it was red/white & blue or meister Brau longnecks. Each was 3.99 a case IIRC.

It wasn't good but it was dirt cheap, does anyone else (must be old) remember something called Red, White, and Blue?

Also there was some crap out of the Dubuque brewery, I think it was Pickett's something or other.

The above made Budweiser classy.

It tended to be whatever was on sale. Generally Beast Light, on a good week it could be Old Mil Light or Busch Light. Occasionally Red, White and Blue Light would be purchased. The regular Red, White and Blue was undrinkable. We had standards.

 

[jcyclonee]

Grain Belt "Been a long time a brewin". In clear glass bottles. Also Schaefer light and Black Label. Dang Bud and Bud Light was the good beer back in mid-late eighties.

This is so true.

There really weren't many beers out there that were higher quality unless you counted the Canadian beers or Foster's which really weren't much better.

 

[Die4Cy]

Keg shop used to have this stuff for sale in a case of bottles for $7.49 and you got $1.20 in deposit back when you returned the bottles. "Master Brew," we just called it Mr. Beer. A case full of empty bottles made a decent chair for dorm room guests.

 

[Al_4_State]

I drank it all. but the faves were MGD and HGD (that would be Hamms Golden Draft)

They stopped selling it in Ames around 1999 but could still find it in Boone and Decorah up til I graduated in '01.

We were still drinking HGD purchased from the Le Roy, MN liquor store somewhere around 2005-2006 when home from college. $8.99 for a 30 box, I believe.

 

[letsgostate]

Good beer Schlitz...crappy beer Blatz...REALLY good beer Coors

 

[laminak]

Keystone Light. It was a cheap and smooth/light for a newer beer drinker in me. When I had more money, I upgraded to Bud Light and/or Rolling Rock.

 

[Die4Cy]

I was at ISU when the ice beer fad began. Everyone argued you got a bigger buzz for the buck but invariably that stuff was crap, it didn't matter whose you bought. Some guys would walk around with twelvers of Red Dog, but that was just an uppity version of Icehouse. You knew those guys were dicks.

At least music in the early 90's was good.

 

[CRcyclone6]

Keystone or Meisterbrau

 

[VTXCyRyD]

In this order:

free
cheap
cold

 

[VTXCyRyD]

Gives me the thin dirties just thinking about it, but...

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