Old Style?

According to my scale: below PBR, not undrinkable. NC for a classic-looking can.

I like Old Style.

I think it is a midwest thing, I could get Old Style in Detroit, but now that I'm in New England no one has heard of the stuff.

I once played a show in Chicago at a place that I'm pretty sure had no identifying marks on the outside save a neon Old Style sign. My kind of place. I want to say the Mutiny or something like that? Maybe someone round here can help me out. Seemed like a pretty OK place. This was some years ago.

I don't think I've ever had an old style in my entire life

Marsupialized wrote:I don't think I've ever had an old style in my entire life

Wow. We did grow up in the same area, right?

I refer to Old Style as "My dad's beer of choice before he got laid off from the cheese factory and had to switch to Black Label."

NC for being a step up from Black Label, and for being available at Happy Hour at Cactus Club for $1.50 in a frosted mug. NUMMERS.

EDIT: Also, someday i will start a hardcore band that writes nothing but songs about Old Style. It will be called KREUSENED and i'll get the band's name tattooed on my stomach in gothic lettering.

Oh man, I drank many Old Styles the last time I was in Chicago. I remember it being alright. Better than Bud.

I really haven't seen it anywhere else since leaving Chicago though.

Doesn't give me the mud-butt like Old-Milwaukee or Keystone, but still, I ONLY drink it when in Chicago at a Cubs game or something; therefore, CRAP.

a pleasant replacement for National Bohemian now that I've relocated to the midwest. I thank C.J.McG for introducing me to the beer under these terms.

As watery domestics go, you could do a lot worse. I disagree that it is sub-PBR. PBR is beastfluid.

A friend once told me the reason Old Style is so unavoidable in Chicago is that they were the only brewery willing to hire scab labor and supply local bars during a long and bitter strike by Illinois beer truck drivers in the Fifties. I have no idea if it's true, but it would go a long way towards explaining why I could never stomach that stuff.