bygone beers - was: strangest question

[Hookstr]

I believe the Olympia brewery closed last summer. In Seattle, the old Rainer Brewery has been converted to a--big surprise--coffee roasting plant. G. Hooker '03 KLR650 '01 Concours

[Gary Charpentier]

Ah yes... good ol' Special Exlax. I remember when the back of my toilet bowl looked like a Jackson Pollock original on Sunday mornings. That's still my Dad's favorite brew to this day. Does anyone remember the generic craze during the `80s, when you could buy beer in white cans with only the word "Beer" and a large bar code? It may have had some small print on there somewhere, but I always wondered who brewed it, where it came from. About that same time, there was a bar in Austin, TX called "Joe's Generic Bar", and they served BEER beer in the white cans. Our alternate name for that place was "Shrine of the Velvet Elvis", due to the black walls, black lights, and swap-meet paintings on the walls. There were ceiling fans about every 8 feet or so, and I swear none of them were balanced, probably on purpose. Strange days in a strange land... =gc= P.S. for Jud Run into any chrono synclastic infundibula lately? --- "Judson D. Jones" wrote: , unless someone

> > showed up with a Care package of Special Export from the Midwest. The > > Olympia slogan was "It's the Water", to which one could only nod in > agreement. A brew I miss from the PNW is Rainier Ale ("Green Death").

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