b12958@ihuxp.UUCP (Pete S) (03/29/84)
Beer Survey
All (or mostly all) of the truly good US beers have essentially
disappeared from the market. They have been replaced by the
(so called) popular brands such as Hamms, Millers, Coors, Budweiser,
ad nauseum. As a lad in high school and for a few years after
we thought national brands were great. What a mistake we were making
in our attemp to be sophisticated beer consumers. In good old Oshkosh,
WI there used to be three (3) local breweries: Rahr's; Peoples; and the
Chief Oshkosh Brewery. Peoples was a very good beer. Chief Oshkosh
beer had a slogan something like 'brewed with water from a 500 foot well'.
Some claimed it was true: 20 feet down and then 480 feet north--right
into Lake Winnebago! When I buy beer now I try to find a local brew
because they are much better than the big names. Leinenkugels is good
but hard to find around Chicago.
Pete Schultz
AT&T Bell Labs; Naperville, IL