Every day is beer day! 

One of my favorites is Samuel Smith organic lager. Get at tamuras. Not too strong, not too weak. Just right 

My dad was a primo beer drinker.  He would save all the empty bottles in their original case and stack them up in our garage.

He would employ my older brother and me to help him stack those cases in our old trusty station wagon and we would trek over to the plant that was in Aiea where I think Best Buy is now.  We would get money back for handing in the empty bottles.

Then dad would give me and my brother pocket change so that we can buy candy, cone sushi, and comic books at our local mom and pop store.

I also remember the primo bottle returns at the plant in Aiea. I was always impressed with the sharp eyed employee who could spot a
non-primo bottle in the case. Only the tops of the bottles were visible and yet the bogus bottles were instantly detected.

Too bad I gotta go work tonight. No can celebrate.

....oh what the hell, maybe I'll celebrate during work!!
😆

Wasn't the legend of Primo Beer is they got the water from Pearl Harbor? 

My parents were too pah-kay.

 I cut my teeth thieving low budget beer.

I became disenchanted with domestic beer brands when I spent 5 years in Oklahoma.  They had this weird law about selling beer having an "excess of 3.2% alcohol by volume."

Most beer is in the 6.0% alcohol range.  I guess OK wanted to limit drunk driving by their redneck population, so if you bought beer in grocery stores or convenience marts, it had to be 3.2% or less.  My first experience with that was when my future Ex and I bought 2 six packs of beer and sat on a towel by Lake Hefner to enjoy it.  After cracking open the second 6pk, I looked at her and asked, "You feel anything from this?"  She said, "Not even a little bit."  I read the 3.2% notice on the label, but wasn't sure what it meant.

Next, we went to a liquor store.  They explained the law, and said any beer, wine or liquor over 3.2% had to be purchased from a place like theirs.

Luckily, the base had a Class VI store that sold booze cheaper than off base (no state taxes).  The only domestic beer that was 6.0 was the generic "BEER" -- white can with black lettering that just said "BEER."     Not bad, but not really good.  They also had "LITE BEER".   

The only other 6.0 domestic brand was Pabst Blue Ribbon.  So, we spent a little more and bought the imports.  St Pauli Girl, Moosehead, Heineken, Corona, Dos Equis, ... anything imported, and it was all "in excess of 3.2% alcohol by volume."

There was a restaurant chain in OKC called Garfield's that had a Beer-Of-The-World Club.  You get a card (like a punch card, only they initialed it), with a list of about 100 beers. You order a beer on the card, and they mark it for you.  Once you had 25 marked, you got a free appetizer.  50 got you a free prime rib meal.  100 got you a special glass beer mug.  500 got your name engraved on a bar stool.  They changed it up no and then, like the Silver Bullet Club, where the only beer listed on the card was Coors.  Same rewards, just limited to Coors brand.

Anyway, Sam Adams is probably my favorite domestic beer now.  All the rest are "Meh."

Today is PURPLE HEART DAY
I only know one person with a Purple Heart. My first cousin, who was injured by a mine in Vietnam.

It's also National Mustard Day.
Celebrate appropriately.

Today is PURPLE HEART DAY
I only know one person with a Purple Heart. My first cousin, who was injured by a mine in Vietnam.

It's also National Mustard Day.
Celebrate appropriately.

I appreciate all military personnel and their service and sacrifices for our country.

I deep sea fished with a co-worker a while back.  He owned the boat and we would fish on Sundays every week for about 8 years.  He was awarded the purple heart for shrapnel in his legs, abdomen, shoulder, and neck.  It was a major battle in Vietnam (I can't recall the battle), his unit was surrounded and he thought he was going to die.  He was only 19 then.  God knows what he went through during that horrific battle.

He died from complications of COPD a few years ago.  He was only 67.  May he Rest In Peace.

I became disenchanted with domestic beer brands when I spent 5 years in Oklahoma.  They had this weird law about selling beer having an "excess of 3.2% alcohol by volume."

Most beer is in the 6.0% alcohol range.  I guess OK wanted to limit drunk driving by their redneck population, so if you bought beer in grocery stores or convenience marts, it had to be 3.2% or less.  My first experience with that was when my future Ex and I bought 2 six packs of beer and sat on a towel by Lake Hefner to enjoy it.  After cracking open the second 6pk, I looked at her and asked, "You feel anything from this?"  She said, "Not even a little bit."  I read the 3.2% notice on the label, but wasn't sure what it meant.

Next, we went to a liquor store.  They explained the law, and said any beer, wine or liquor over 3.2% had to be purchased from a place like theirs.

Luckily, the base had a Class VI store that sold booze cheaper than off base (no state taxes).  The only domestic beer that was 6.0 was the generic "BEER" -- white can with black lettering that just said "BEER."     Not bad, but not really good.  They also had "LITE BEER".   

The only other 6.0 domestic brand was Pabst Blue Ribbon.  So, we spent a little more and bought the imports.  St Pauli Girl, Moosehead, Heineken, Corona, Dos Equis, ... anything imported, and it was all "in excess of 3.2% alcohol by volume."

There was a restaurant chain in OKC called Garfield's that had a Beer-Of-The-World Club.  You get a card (like a punch card, only they initialed it), with a list of about 100 beers. You order a beer on the card, and they mark it for you.  Once you had 25 marked, you got a free appetizer.  50 got you a free prime rib meal.  100 got you a special glass beer mug.  500 got your name engraved on a bar stool.  They changed it up no and then, like the Silver Bullet Club, where the only beer listed on the card was Coors.  Same rewards, just limited to Coors brand.

Anyway, Sam Adams is probably my favorite domestic beer now.  All the rest are "Meh."

Dont know if I am remembering this right but wasnt the entire premise of the first Smokey and the Bandit movie was them getting paid to smuggle a trailer full of Coors across state lines because it was illegal due it fractionally higher alcohol content?

I like Coors because it has a malty flavor similar to Primo.
My co-workers bought some Costco citrus beer.
It was pretty darn good.

Back in 1975 there were no Coors in Hawaii.  That year me, my dad, and my sister visited my first cousin in Huntington Beach California to stay with her husband and family so we can go visit Disneyland, etc.

Her husband introduced me to Coors.  He had a whole refrigerator full.  What a great vacation!

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Today is PURPLE HEART DAY
I only know one person with a Purple Heart. My first cousin, who was injured by a mine in Vietnam.

I've met more than my share of wounded warriors in my lifetime and worked with a few parents of wounded warriors.

The wounds don't stop at the wounded, but impact the lives of their families, friends, coworkers, and everyone they've yet to meet.

Some were not wounded in the line of duty,  but suffered painful injuries during their off-duty time.  Even so, they are still required to use government-funded medical services, which often worsens their pain and disabilities.

Next time you see a Purple Heart license plate, think about the fact that someone is continuing to live their life possibly in great pain or lack of function, because they volunteered  to help keep us all safe.

Dont know if I am remembering this right but wasnt the entire premise of the first Smokey and the Bandit movie was them getting paid to smuggle a trailer full of Coors across state lines because it was illegal due it fractionally higher alcohol content?

For decades, Coors was only distributed legally in 11 states, all West of the Mississippi River.  Unless a distributor pays the proper alcohol taxes, they can't sell in a given state.  Hence, the states that were not on the list of 11 saw a large number of bootleggers bringing in Coors from states where it was legally sold.

Texas was the closest state to Georgia where you could legally buy Coors, which is why the movie had the Bandit load up his truck in Texarkana, TX, and drive to Atlanta, GA.

Additionally, since Coors was not pasteurized, it had to remain refrigerated after bottling.  Refer Trucks could only keep the refrigerators running for so long, so the distance they could travel with Coors was limited.  Likewise, if a retailer had the beer for more than 30 days, they were required to dispose of it.  I'm sure they found creative ways in which to do that!   

I remember it was a big deal when Coors opened a bottling plant in West Virginia.  They used rail to transport the beer there, then bottled and distributed it from the new plant.

Anyway, that's why Smokey and the Bandit bootlegged Coors.  That, and the fact the developer of the plot was having his Coors stolen in his hotel by the maid -- 2 bottles per day were missing from the fridge.  On the "black market", Coors was bringing $1-$2 per bottle, which back in the 70's was huge considering the legal Coors price was in the "cheap" range.

Wow, that's a great bit of beer drinking trivia.

Wow, that's a great bit of beer drinking trivia.

My Ex was a Coors fan before it was available in NC where we went to college.  She had relatives who would visit her from the West.  Their suitcases were stuffed with Coors anywhere it would fit -- inside socks, pants legs, etc.

That's before the airlines became obsessed with luggage fees.

After NC got Coors, she was buying there and "bootlegging" it to her parents' home in MD. 

COORS TRIES TO CONQUER SOUTHEAST BEER MARKET

April 2, 1983

Last January, the company introduced Coors into the lucrative Florida beer market, the fifth
largest in the country, and since then has started selling it in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia,
North and South Carolina, and Virginia.

By the end of the month, when the current expansion is completed, Coors will be available
in 26 states and the District of Columbia, the company says. Eventually, it hopes to eliminate
all marketing limitations and sell the beer nationwide, although ''bootlegged'' Coors is already
available in many areas, including New Jersey and Connecticut, on an unauthorized basis
at premium prices.

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/02/business/coors-tries-to-conquer-southeast-beer-market.html


She was also a Stroh's Beer fan. 

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Here's your tin foil hat CMO!

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Mr Okada from Palolo housing wore one while tasting soda A and soda X.
(Rap's Hawaii 1981)

"I like da crackah"

I am declaring Sunday to be Smokey and the Bandit day, I am gonna re-watch the movie while drinking Coors. Maybe even grow a Burt Reynolds mustache.

I am declaring Sunday to be Smokey and the Bandit day, I am gonna re-watch the movie while drinking Coors. Maybe even grow a Burt Reynolds mustache.

Buy a Trans Am with CB radio!

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I am declaring Sunday to be Smokey and the Bandit day, I am gonna re-watch the movie while drinking Coors. Maybe even grow a Burt Reynolds mustache.

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Still celebrating international beer day since I had to work yesterday.

Longboard lager
Cuban partagas
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