Narragansett offical beer of Striper Cup
 

So where will Striperfest be? Big step for the boys from Narragansett-Good luck I hope this works out for them.

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have a gansett

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hahahha :hihi:

I suppose it could be Genesse...

I think your all having flashbacks of youthful indiscretions:buds::buds::yak5: its not that bad for a domestic lager but it has to be real cold

GIQ's were 50 cents, the drinking age was 21 then too. I remember Narragansett

hey neighbor, have a gansett!

Nobody remembers oldies like Pabst, Schlitz, or Schmidts :err:?? That stuff makes Genesee and Naragansett look good :humpty:.

I'd take a Pabst over a Gansett any day....PBR Talls...thats Livin

wide mouth cans

Local Brew?
 

NFN, isn't 'gansett brewed in St. Louis now?

Hey I grew up on Gennee cream ale... Or even better the 12 horse.

In college we'd get cases of Piels long necks for $6 and change...

I used to work a warehouse job during college breaks and we had to come in to take inventory on a Sat. every year. At lunch, someone would run out and pick up PBR talls and we'd finish up the day by drinking at work. That was about 18 years ago. I still pick up a 6 pack of PBR talls at least once a year for old times sake.

Anyone remember Stroh's? I think they were the first beer to come out with a 30 pack. Not very good stuff, but it did the trick back in the day.

without a doubt.:buds:

I think gansett's made in rochester NY now "under the supervision of rhode islanders" or something. I dunno I think pbr and gansett are both pretty inocuous. They really don't have a strong enough flavor to be offensive. I like them both as hot weather beers.

Pabst is the only American beer I can drink - although it's been more than a few years since I last had one -

Used to drink 'em when I lived in Florida...yup, red necks, white socks and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer...

On the other hand, a Narrie for $1.50 sounds good - beats $6 Amstels in Newport anyway...:hs:

I actually know the new owners - and they have done a good job of re-establishing the brand

Although I doubt it's "made with pure Scituate spring water" anymore...

By Genesse

Go figure. :rotflmao:

Are you guys telling me that if thats all there will be at the Striperfest you'll all go dry? RIGHT ,sure you will:cheers2:

I remember going to parties at Syracuse where they'd pull up Gennessee trucks and unload keg after keg into the frat houses. I think we used to pay 50 cents for a cup to drink all you wanted. Even at that price, Gennessee was a ripoff. Probably my worst memory of going there to visit friends.

Narragansett is the first beer I drank. My father drank it and his father drank it so I drank it! :)

Genee cream was not bad. The plain Genee was bad.You could leave a six pack in the fraternity fridge and noone would steal it! That's bad!

Best from the narragansett Brewery was haffenreffer Private stock. A malt ale affectionately called Green Death.

wait, so Harpoon is out?

WOAH.....Thats just Crazy talk....I'll pretty much drink anything.

Old Milwaukee was my Go To beer in High School....unless I was Broke...then it was GIQ's of Black Label or a six of Red,White, And Blue.

Other Notables

Fort Schuyler
Kappy's
Quick Stop (think 7-11 having there own brand)

I always have it in my fridge. Along with some Cape Cod Red and IPA and Cisco's Whale's Tale. Gansett is smooth and easy to drink, perfect after cutting the grass or any other chore. For those who remember it being bad you probably drank the stuff that was brewed by Falstaff in the 80's. They have retained the last original brew master and the stuff is really good IMHO. I like it a lot better than Bud. I had the good fortune of meeting Mark Hellendrung on the Cape a couple of years ago and he is such a nice guy. He donated the beer at 2 of our open houses in Falmouth and it was a huge hit with well to do crowd that attended. Give it a try again sometime with an open mind. You'll be surprised.

http://www.narragansettbeer.com/showpage.aspx?pageId=74

How Old is this guy.....the company was founded in 1888.

I think they are saying in that article that they brought on a former Brew-master.....not one of the originals. Now if this guy redid the recipe it may be better...but my memories of it are one Overly Carbonated flavorless beverage....not to say I still wouldn't drink it.....:hee:

And remember.....this guy was the brewmaster during the 70' and 80's so.....:huh:

You know what they say about American Beer its like Making Love in a Canoe.....

cape cod red and summer as well as the cisco beers are some of my favorites. You're right about gansett very smooth and ligth great thirst quencher when the weather's warm!

They'll have to add a new category to the Striperfest activities:

Who can spew the longest "chum-line".:yak:

The Black Label we drank around here was brewed in Natick "on the shores of Lake Cochituate".

Both Gansett and Black Label were better than Knickerbocker, though.

The only time Gansett really went down well was around 7:15 AM after you just got off work on the graveyard shift. A couple of 25 cent drafts at Duffy's Bar in Pawtucket were the perfect nightcap. If you really wanted to wake up in a room that smelled like a sewer, you chased a pickeled egg down with a few quarter draft Gansetts :laugha:

Gotta love those bars that opened at 6 AM--if you ever wanted to see what hard core boozers looked like, it was like visiting the Smithsonian of Alkies.

Life's too short to drink cheap beer any more ;)

My Dad used to buy Black Label and Kinck all the time and I can remember sneaking a few and man they were bad. Knick had rice in the ingrediants and they boasted about that. The Black Label can had to be the coolest design ever. If I remember they had a red Canadian Maple leaf on it with a map of the world and red dots where I'm guessing were supposed Black Label markets. A real international gem!:spin: I never knew it was from Natick.:gu:

Dawson beer plant in New Beige was nearly in my back yard. The aroma of the brew was pleasent along with Wonder bread being baked daily literally next door. The only way I would drink that beer was with a spoon of sugar
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I visited the Carling Black Label brewery in Natick several times. They also had Red Cap ale which wasn't too bad.

Best brewery story I heard was from an old reformed street bum. He was a true bum , sleeping on the streets etc. He used to talk about a brewery in New Haven right next to Yale. He said there was a tap coming out the side of the brewery wall so that the truckers delivering the beer could fill up a mug on the way out from the loading docks. He said that the security guard had a deal with all the local bums. To keep them away when the bosses were around the deal was they could go to the truckers tap and drink all they wanted after like 4:30 PM for about a half hour. If he caught any near there during the day he would shut the tap off to them after work. He said the bums watched the place like hawks to be sure nobody went near it during the day.

Also , when the Narracansett Brewery was in RI , in addition to an hourly wage and some other benefits , every employee was allowed a certain number of beers each day free WHILE THEY WERE WORKING!!! They also got to take home a certain number each night. Apparently it was one of the most valued benefits of working in a brewery.

Some know that I am a long time brewer and almost opened a Microbrewery locally in 1987. I went to many breweries all over New England. Some tours were the best with every inch of the brewery covered and then a long time in the guests lounge for "tasting". Some were just a quick sweep through and into the lounge for just one or two tastes. Eventually some breweries started charging for a brewery tour. What a rip off!

Gansett had a strong larger taste. A larger is made with different yeast than an ale and to optimize the health of the yeast it is fermented about 10 degrees lower (or even much cooler sometime) than an ale. It imparts a very distinct taste. If you got gansett fresh and did not allow it to cycle warm then cold then warm , it had that distinct lager taste. I liked a Gansett ice cold after working in the summer heat or after golfing on a summer afternoon (at one point in my life I played golf several times each week) . I would pound one ice cold one down then nurse another.

Gansett was better when brewed in Cranston. Like almost all beers , its better fresh and the local brewery helped insure it was fresher than something coming in from Wisconson.

I remember as a kid (14 or so)when striper fishing with my dad and uncle and I asked for a beer one night. My dad handed me a Schmidts in one of the little brown bottles. OoohlyChrist that was bitter. I think that drove me away from drinking beer until I went to college.

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salthart i know a older gent that worked at narragansett brewery and he told me about the free beer for employees he also told me that if he was having a party he could take home a few cases

In these hard economic times why not bring back "Billy Beer" or generic "BEER"?

I was at UMass Amherst from 1984-1988. My buddies and I drank, in no particular order:

Narragansett - "Hi neighbor, have a 'Gansett!"
Piels - "A Real Drinking Man's Beer!"
Stroh’s
Schaefer - "The one beer to drink when you're drinking more than one!"
Carling’s Black Label - "People try it and they like it"
Fort Schuyler
Matt's beer ball
our favorite, however, was Ballantine - the 3 rings stand for Purity, Body, Flavor

I was in the band at UMass and I think I have a picture of me at practice one Friday evening with a Narragansett pounder in the bell of my saxophone. I wonder where that picture is?

I still have some beer trays from my grandfather. The Dr. Suess guy did the art for some of them. He used to have them in cases of quart bottles in these extremely strong cardboard boxes. Tried a sample from a pretty young woman in a liquor store a few years back.:yak5::yak5:

I believe at the anheisuer-busch breweries they're allowed to drink beer during the day as long as they're not drunk. Has anyone found gansett in any container besides six packs of long necks or six packs of 16 oz cans?