I don't want to hijack John's thread on beer so I will start my own. In 1965 or so a couple of friends went to Colorado and came back with some Coors. I remember drinking it and thinking it was good. As an underage college student, almost all beer tasted good.

In the mid 70's I remember going to Kansas and buying some Coors of my own to bring home. Like about anything you can't get, you think it is better or has some great mystery. Some of the stuff I brought home must have been old cause it did not taste that great. Coors came to Illinois in 85 or 86. The local commie, pinko radical wrote a letter to the editor of the local paper and said no good socialist, anti-American nut job would drink the stuff. I remembered him from my college days and decided that if he were against it, I was for it.

I took my first trip to Talladega in 86 and based on my Army experience in the South, I expected to see lots of PBR. I saw no PBR, but lots of Coors and Coors Light. Bill Elliott was big then and his car was sponsored by Coors. I was a Bill fan and started drinking Coors Light. One day a local liberal attorney was sitting next to me at the pub and seeing what I drank, he asked if I agreed with the political philosophy of Mr. Coors. I said I damn sure do and he left.

A couple of weeks ago, I had the good fortune to be back in the glory of the Rockies. I stopped at a general store in Yellowstone and the Coors caught my eye. I really enjoyed it and have bought some more since. It is very smooth and quite tasty.

I know some of you are going to tell me how good your porters, stouts and ales taste. I have spilled more beer than most of you have drank and I don't care for them. I like American beer and I like Coors.

When I was in the Navy, I'd come home on leave from Coranado and throw a couple six packs of Coors in my seabag. On the way back, I'd through in a couple of Busch. I was popular for one day each way.

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We used to do the same thing with Coors. If someone was going anywhere that had it we would place our order for at least a case. All we could get then was the yellow can. The Silver Bullet wasn't being made yet. Now that it is easy to get here it's lost some of it's mystic. I still drink it occassionally. I have several brands I like, and a few I tolerate, so I kind of switch them around. If free beer is being offered at a BBQ or whatever chances are I'll like whatever it is.

I went to Colorado for the first time back in the 70's. As I recall, there was more than one type of Coors beer. The good stuff was about 5% and was only available at certain places. The grocery store version was closer to 3% and wasn't that good.

I could be wrong because my memory of those times is a bit blurry!

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Not to many years ago I could have given you a good run for your money about which one of us had drank more beer. I like American beer, but I DON'T LIKE Coors.

Old Bear, I first heard that line from a crusty old retired USAF Chief MSgt back in the early 70's. He was not kidding.

I live in east-central Indiana and when we could'nt find someone to "buy" for us in town on a saturday night we loaded up in a car and took a road trip to Ohio for their 3% beer which could be bought if you we're 18 years old.
It was better than nothing but not by much.
The Little Kings and the Hudepohl we're popular amongst us high school
kids back then. I still prefer American brewed beer also.
Mostly Bud Light now but i'll treat myself to a good "premium" beer
every now and then. Try "Fat tire" some time.

Chuck

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Why Coors ever bothered to bring out a light beer remains a mystery given they made the original right there in Golden. Carbonated dishwater.

It had been years since I tried it. Drank mostly the trendy brews, used to make fun of Coors.

About three years ago my uncle past away. He was a big time Coors "enthusiast". At his memorial, everyone was proposing toasts to "Big D" and, of course, the only thing in the house was Coors long-necks.

I have to admit, I found it tasted much better than I thought it did. Who knew? Been enjoying it ever since.

I'm a Coors convert. After a lifetime drinking first Bud then Michelob my oldest son got me on Coors. He used to call my Mich, meat and potatoes beer and he would be drinking all night way past when I was well in my cups. Then I started on the Coors and found out there is life past 9PM.
I also remember the mystique of Coors for us east coast drinkers around 1970. I think it had something to do with how not only Coors but all beer was brewed and packaged and the fact that Coors was always kept cold. Modern beer has a different taste but that hasn't stopped me.
Stay thirsty my friends.

The only Coors you could get in Kansas during that time (I was at KU then) was the 3.2 swill.

''The horse has diabetes,'' said the vet after his sip of Coors.

When I was nineteen in '76 a freind and I hitchhiked home to Ca. from Virginia, and drove past the Coors plant in Golden, i think. I avoided Coors for some reason prior to this but felt it was appropriate to drink a pitcher of it when we hit a pizza place a little later. It tasted great! I had a Coors today. I don't know the politics except the non union part and also the Coors Shutsenfest's, so those must be what you're talking about. I'm union and drink Coors because I like it and it's associated with SHOOTING! Thanks for irritating a few people along the way in your Coors afventures.

Nope--in 74 you could get liqour store Coors. 5% I moved to Houston in 74, and took 20 cases with me. Bought them for $9 each and sold them for $25. Paid for my U-Haul to move there.

Two words: Ick.

Original Coors in longnecks has been my beer for awhile! It takes some searching to find it around here in bottles but I think it's worth the effort.

There is no shortage of them in Wyoming. Maybe you are wearing the wrong hat.

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Grew up near Golden.Drank and liked Coors when I was young.Hadn't had any in years,so I drank one not long ago.That is a stinky beer!

"Back in the Day"... the original "Banquet" beer WAS refreshingly light and crisp and made to be drunk by the six-pack (hence the nickname Colorado Cool-Aid!). I can still remember the instant relief and satisfaction from downing an almost slushy ice cold can pulled out of a beat-up cooler in a nameless saloon on a dusty crossroads in the mountains north of Teluride circa 1973. We'd been driving for 3 or 4 hours in blistering heat that had the Caddy's normally frigid A.C. struggling and that beer just about saved my life! The fact that I was only 17 also increased the "cool" factor.

I agree that it tastes somewhat dissapointing now.

I don't make a big deal out of whether a beer is American. Many countries make good beer. In my experience, Canada and New Zealand are not among them.

I encountered Coors in Colorado whiile stationed in Denver. No big deal.

I prefer Heineken(sp?) in a lighter beer, Grolsch or Samuel Smith's Old Pale Ale or Sam Adams in a fuller brew. Bud is nice and has a unique flavor. Michelob is also good, and I think Kirin is a Japanese copy of it.

Lowenbrau is also good, and I liked Castle Lager from South Africa when some guys from the SA consulate gave me some for helping to answer questions in their booth at the Texas State Fair one year.

I certainly don't think that Coors is special, but if you like it, have at it. If they sponsor a schutzenfest, more the better.

Oh: I wish I could think of the name, but I've had an excellent Danish beer. Someone here can probably name it. Aha! Carlsberg. And I think I liked Tuborg. Been awhile...

One of my favorite places to have a beer was at the German restaurant (Hans Mueller's) by the Esplanade pool at the Fair. I'd take both kids and we'd get sausage plates with sauerkraut & potato salad, and I'd have a beer. There were flags all around that long pool, and I'd give the kids a penny for each they could name. Fun times.

Coor's is like making love in a canoe.

C6

I took a suitcase full of the stuff (about 80 lbs) back to Iceland after a visit home to Oklahoma in 79 or 80. It only took a six pack to get it past customs. That, and a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20. Neither of those were available in Iceland. We sold it for quite the premium in our First Class Mess in the barracks.

bob

In 1970 I got orders to go from Vietnam to Fort Sam at San Antonio. I thought I would be able to get Coors in Texas, but it was not available. Lone Star and Pearl were both in San Antonio and we visited them both as they had samples. Lone Star had a big gun and western museum as well as orange pop and root beer that my wife liked. Pearl tried to be Coors like as they advertised how good their water was. Longnecks of both were under $4 a case. On some weekends, Piggly Wiggly had Bud cans for $.99 a six.

MD20/20, there's a whole new thread. If only I could remember that weekend in Lake George.

Really! I think I was there,

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Coors= Dog Swill.

As LIGHT as Coor's regular is, I wouldn't think it could be made any lighter.

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Coors gives me a headache, Bud gives me gas. I can tolerate Miller, but due to cost, I just drink Keystone Lite. After a couple, the brand just doesn't matter, as long as it's COLD. I'm in the heat most of the day, so water is my choice.

I have drank a substantial quantity of Coors, I would hazard a guess that I have puked more of it than most have drank.
I was in Laramie at the single Steer Roping Finals in 1976, the Coors folks were pushing this new thing called Coors Lite.
I agree with some other posters here, being lighter than the original is just ridiculous.
However, I remember in the early 80's, Coors was uder fire for adding nitrates to their beer.
I became convinced that the nitrates were giving me those awful headaches when overindulging, so I switched to Miller High Life for a while.
I prefer Keystone for a cheap beer and Negro Modelo now when I am flush.

In the 60's and 70's, I had a friend that would sometimes bring back Coors when he went to that part of the world. I believe that they have changed it to make it last longer and it no longer tastes the same now. I have read that they were in a lawsuit because they would not sell to some distributors because they would not refrigerate their trucks. It appears that their quality standards are not the same today as they were back then. I rarely drink Coors now. I like beer with more flavor now.

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I was in SD on the Cheyenne River Sioux Rez as a high school student during summer vacation in 1973. I was from S. AZ and didn't know Coors was a rare commodity there, it was bootlegged in and commanded a high price. I was altogether indifferent to this as a youngster, but some people made some big money with this distribution differential.
While there, I got to sample Mickey's big mouth, not bad, PBR, OK after the first one, but Olympia, never developed a taste for it, but come on, when that is what ya got, ya drink it,LOL.

Edit: BTW, the old deal on Coors was don't let it sit and get hot too long. That was for real, it would get skunky fairly quickly. I haven't drank enough of it in adverse conditions,LOL, since those yesteryears to know if they changed something, although, I still hear that it is code dated for freshness, like that matters to a kid.

Coors Light comes out of the faucets at my house. You can get it either hot or cold.

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Here's a picture of me back in the 70's headin' out west to pick up some Coors.



I had a long way to go and a short time to get there.

GF

My experience with Coors is like the OP. I went to college in 1971 and just down the road was the most Eastern vendors of Coors in Texas. So it was the "in" beer, although we could buy Old Milwaukee Qts. for 25 cents with our fraternity discount. I like more flavor in my beer. Coors taste like that pure, refreshing mountain water with beer spilled in it. Coors light should be sold with a nipple on it. Baby beer.

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Torn & Frayed

I generaly like St. Pauli girl, Grolsch, or one of the Sam Adams brews. ButI don't turn up my nose at "mainstream" American beer. There is absolutly nothing better on a hot summer day then guzzling a Bud, PBR, Coors, etc. so icey cold it gives you a brain freeze!

A big reason people used to be so wild about coors was because it was so hard to get in some states. Which I imagine is why Japanese are so wild about Bud.

In 1960 we moved to Ft. Stockton, Texas. A number of the neighborhood families would take turns having a BBQ at each others' homes on the weekend. One of the neighbors was a Border Patrolman, and he was as rough as they come...when it was his turn, he would always serve Coors. He had a daughter about my age...we would wait until it got dark and everyone was fairly "happy" and then we'd sneak some beer. We liked Coors much better than Schlitz (which is what my step-father always drank) or any of the other brands the other parents would serve. Those were good times. I got my first kiss from that girl.

I haven't had a beer in several years (stomach surgery, can't drink carbonated beverages now) and I didn't usually drink Coors...but when I would have one, it always took me back to those summer evenings.

We moved away from Ft. Stockton in 1965, and I never saw the girl again. I did hear that her father (the Border Patrolman) was killed in the line of duty after we moved, by some illegals he was attempting to arrest.

I liked Coors but the only thing Coors Lite is good for is putting out a fire.....without straining it through your kidneys. Bud Lite is the beer to drink when you are drinking twelve.

max, it is hard to believe YOU started a beer thread!

I've downed a Coors or two myself. While I was in Kosovo, I found a German wheat beer I was quite fond of.

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WAR EAGLE!

You guys laughed and made fun of me wit my Rolex thread and now, y'all snobbing about beer. Well as far as power drinking fishing beer you can't beat Schaefers light. Plus a case of it costs less than $10 and that's with 12oz cans. ANd I agree with Charlie and the others, good beer comes in many forms-let's see...there's COLD beer-never had a bad one of those....there's beer someone else paid for, again never had a bad one of those. Beer is a lot like conubial relations-some are better than others, but I've never had a bad one

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YOU TWO???

I was the guy you traded the Boone's Farm with>>>>> I THINK

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Her name was Michelle.

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NICE!!... What are friends for.. But REMEMBER..
" A friend in NEED is a PEST!"

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LENA HORNE The Schaefer Beer song - YouTube

Beer with class...AND the official beer of the BROOKLYN DODGERS!!

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I don't need much and I'm easy to keep. I haven't even had boo boo on the floor since that time in Ohio.

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It was UGLY!

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Oops, That might have been Idaho.

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Being of Greek descent (along with Scot and Welsh), I was brought up on the stuff, along with Metaxa brandy (my home island is Kefalonia) and my grandmother's wine.
Finlandia is wonderful stuff; being Greek Orthodox I can drink Jameson's and Bushmill's; I've been known to toast the bride many, many times.
Coors Banquet is the favorite in my house.

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Well now, once upon a time, a loooong time ago I was stationed in Colorado Springs at Fort Carson. Ah, the memories. I was introduced to Coors and can tell you it sucks when it gets just a little warm. The true test of a good beer is what it tastes like warm. I can confirm this test from a years worth of scientific research in the testing fields of Viet Nam. Back then ice was a commodity and not to often seen and refrigeration was for sissy's. You could get a local beer cold but had to make sure you opened the bottle. Most of the time we got PBR's in 16 oz cans. Crack one open when you roll out of the rack and ready to go for the day. Used to drink Miller for a long time and now drink Rolling Rock. I buy the little ponys so the beer never gets warm.
DW

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The donkey?!?

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And the smelts, bones and all, it's all coming back to me now.

Fixed it for you.
f.t.

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