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Falstaff, Rheingold, and Knickerbocker beers

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Posted by Max at 8:52 am (PDT) on Sat May 16, 2009
Rheingold had a tune that would stick with you. I also remember Piels and Ortleibs beers; maybe they were regional (Delaware Valley) or still around, though I have not seen either for some time.
Posted by Katbear at 5:47 pm (PDT) on Sun August 16, 2009
Where I was from (Louisville Ky), there was Falls City Beer. It's what my dad drank.
Posted by Bob Wilson Jr at 6:27 pm (PDT) on Tue April 20, 2010
"My beer is Reingold, the dry beer, Think of Reingold whenever you buy beer ' It's not bitter, not sweet, It's a dry-flavored treat, Won't you try extra-dry Reingold Beer?"
Posted by WJV1955 at 12:17 pm (PDT) on Fri July 30, 2010
REINGOLD, Beer of the NY METS
Posted by HenryM at 4:48 am (PDT) on Thu September 1, 2011
The melody to the Rheingold commercials of the 1950s and 1960s (referenced above) is the "Estudiantina Waltz" by the French composer Paul Lacome; it was written in 1881.
Posted by Bob Wilson Jr at 6:53 am (PDT) on Thu September 1, 2011
A rarely mentioned NYC beer from back in the Ruppert's Knickerbocker times, was "R&H", from the Rupson and Horman Brewery on Staten Island. And who remembers Beverwyck, brewed up near Albany. Their slogan was "Better Buy Beverwyck".
Posted by Alan at 10:29 am (PST) on Tue February 7, 2012
Falstaff was a St. Louis beer that, in the day, gave Anheuser-Busch a run for their money. It was because of competition from Falstaff that Busch introduced Busch beer, as a lower priced alternative to Budweiser, in 1955. My dad was not much of a beer drinker, but when he bought beer, it was always Falstaff. He was thrifty!
Posted by Alan at 10:33 am (PST) on Tue February 7, 2012
Sheryl Crowe, who for a time lived in St. louis, mentions Falstaff in her song, "All I Wanna Do."

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