Regarding The Worst Beer Thread From a Few Days Ago

[max]

I am headed out to South Dakota next week for my 22nd or so annual pheasant hunt. I have become very close to the family I hunt with and take them things they might need. Over the past few years, I have given the grandkids 4 shotguns and they are always happy to see me.

They have a "bunkhouse" where some of the hunters stay and they keep beer in there for their guests. For some reason, beer is very expensive in SD and I take it to them for much less. The leader of this operation use to play semi-pro baseball for a team that was sponsored by Hamm's beer. He likes the stuff and I have taken him some for the past few years. A local "mega liquor store" has 30 packs for $9.00. I have been instructed to bring "as much as you have room for".

I am tempted to taste one, but will try and defy the urge.

 

[Andy Lowry]

Oh, Hamm's isn't that bad. Definitely a cut above Grain Belt or Iron City.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Hamm's is no better or worse than any other American lager. Miller, Bud, Pearl, Dixie, Rolling Rock, Kingsbury, you name it. You are pretty much drinking the label.

I like Hamm's for the commercials. Of course, we grew up with it here, Hamm's in St. Paul and Grain Belt in Minneapolis.

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At $9.00 for 30,how can you go wrong.

P.s. Given the choice, I would take a Grain Belt, but my favorite of the genre is Old Milwaukee.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I have never turned down a Hamm's. (or any other beer, for that matter)

Feel free to send me all the leftovers.

 

[Sevens]

Did I read that correctly? 30 beers for $9...?!

Are these 12 oz each beer or is it the size of a shot glass?

 

[max]

Actually, I like Grain Belt and always bring some home.

 

[kwselke]

I recall drinking Hamm's in my youth and I did not go blind. It has recently become available again in the Houston area at bargain prices. I have not tried it in this century, but I would not think twice about drinking one if it were offered to me. I believe the proper term for the style of beer is American Adjunct Lager. The adjuncts are usually corn or rice. I have given up many things as I have aged. Beer is the only strong beverage I partake now days. I like trying different craft and imported brews, but American Adjunct Lagers are excellent for the price.

 

[max]

30 12 ounce cans for $8.99 plus tax.

Did I read that correctly? 30 beers for $9...?!

Are these 12 oz each beer or is it the size of a shot glass?

 

[Rustyt1953]

30 12 ounce cans for $8.99 plus tax.

That's almost half of what I pay for Busch Light.

I may have to move.

 

[DWalt]

Hamm's is OK. When I lived in Western Maryland back in the late 1960s, it used to be a dumping ground for about every beer brand you've ever heard of and some you haven't. As there was no state beer tax there, beer was about the price of soft drinks. At the local beer store (that's what it was, nearly all beer), they always had lots of labels and I have tried them all, including Hamm's (from the land of sky blue waters). It wasn't different from anything else. Back then I used to prefer Schaeffer's though. I am not much of a beer drinker these days, and I probably don't drink more than a dozen cans per year. Mainly lemonade and root beer for me today

I think Hamm's is now one of the many Miller brands.

 

[ExRanger714]

"And cornbread and iced teas took the place of pills and 90 proof" to quote Hank Junior.

 

[paulh]

Got introduced to Hamm's about 50 years ago when my MIL and new hubby drove up from Lake Of The Ozarks. I get up to go to work(6AM) and there sitting at the kitchen table are Mom and new hubby drinking Hamm's.

 

[spricks]

Yep, it was the famous choice of beers here in the late 60's and early 70's...all the bars had it on tap and displayed their cool signs....we still drink it and it still tastes the same...we always have 3 boxes on hand to avoid a beer run when company arrives.....it all gets peed on the lawn...so why pay twice as much for lawn pee?
GO PACK!

spricks

 

[Marshwheeling]

Yep, it was the famous choice of beers here in the late 60's and early 70's...all the bars had it on tap and displayed their cool signs....we still drink it and it still tastes the same...we always have 3 boxes on hand to avoid a beer run when company arrives.....it all gets peed on the lawn...so why pay twice as much for lawn pee?
GO PACK!

spricks

What? No Old Style? No Point? No Leinenkugel?

 

[Ozark Marine]

No Schlitz or Stroh's too ?

 

[Glashaus]

30 12 ounce cans for $8.99 plus tax.

That is insanely cheap, that is about what I pay for a six pack of decent beer.

 

[Bekeart]

You do not buiy beer.

we always have 3 boxes on hand to avoid a beer run when company arrives.....it all gets peed on the lawn...

You do not buy beer.

You just RENT it!

Bekeart

IIRC Hamms was the first beer I saw in aluminum cans 1963.

 

[Donn]

Any of you old timers who were in Vietnam would have to agree there's really no beer on the planet worse than Ba Muoi Ba, 33. If there is, I haven't tasted it.

 

[Muley Gil]

My friend, max, the bootlegger.

 

[max]

Hamm's out, GrainBelt back.

My friend, max, the bootlegger.