Best College Beer? Friday Fun Poll

By on January 27, 2006 in FUN, LIFE
College!

Sad but true, but on a bad week in col­lege I prob­a­bly drank more beer that I now con­sume annu­ally. What makes a great col­lege beer? Cheap, 17th one goes down as smooth as the first, comes back up smooth, goes down smooth again. The ques­tion is “What is THE quin­tes­sen­tial col­lege beer?”

Best Col­lege Beer? CAST YOUR VOTE
Once you vote, come on back and explain your­self!
Please leave a com­ment below.

The Win­ner of Last Week’s Poll “The Per­sonal Com­puter.” The PC just barely beat out Duct Tape and The Microwave Oven as the great­est inven­tion since sliced bread. Thanks to every­one who voted and com­mented.  The com­ments con­tinue to kill me.

14 Responses to Best College Beer? Friday Fun Poll

  1. david January 27, 2006 at 4:50 pm #

    While I must admit that I con­sumed thou­sands of gal­lons of all of these, the beer of choice was always Nat­ural Light. It was mar­keted as “The Beer with the Taste for Food,” which meant you could buy it, get blasted, and still have enough cash left for Taco Bell or Ramen Noo­dles. I wanted to write a jin­gle for Nat­ural Light, and try to sell it to Anheuser Busch; not real­iz­ing that they prob­a­bly spend more money on clean­ing up the crap from the Bud­wieser horses than they do on mar­ket­ing Natty Light. I fondly remem­ber vari­a­tions like Nat­ural (reg­u­lar in the Gold Can), Nat­ural Ice, and the great debate about the Logo/Label Change of 1993. Once, my buddy the Kid was asked by his dad, who had grown tired of us drink­ing all of his PBR,  “Son, what is a beer that nobody will want to drink out of my fridge?“  With a straight face he replied “Nat­ural Light.“  Need­less to say his dad’s prob­lem of miss­ing beer was not solved.  In the final analy­sis I con­clude that for my buck, (actu­ally it’s about 50 cents) I’ll take a Natty sir. Long­neck if you’ve got em.

  2. Becky January 27, 2006 at 4:56 pm #

    You’d have to go down a rung or two in the heirar­chy of beers to locate the cat­e­gory from which we (Miami U., 1983–87) imbibed. There was Old Dutch ($2.99 a 12-pack); Old Style (imported from Chicago!!) Senior year, in prepa­ra­tion for drinkin’ in the ‘real world’, we grad­u­ated up to Nat­ural Light. But the best beer for play­ing quar­ters (I could have made the var­sity squad if they’d had one) was Scha­ef­fer Light. Mmmm…smooth!

  3. david January 27, 2006 at 4:59 pm #

    Mmm…The Schaef Dogs! I can tell you from mem­ory that a 12 pack of Scha­ef­fer Light at the North­ridge Drive-Thru was a mere $3.60. A week­end of fun pro­vided from the change of your KR lunch money!

  4. Danny January 27, 2006 at 5:56 pm #

    Dave – VERY dis­ap­pointed to see that the true ‘Best Col­lege Beer’ isn’t a choice…how could Hamm’s not make the list?!? And most Cincy kids grew up on Hudy­Pop (aka Hudy Delight). Both were cheap and ‘got the job done’. Since I had to vote, I went for Old Milwaukee…a 3rd option when the other 2 weren’t avail­able. These were the ’79 — ’83 “Beers of Miami” (paving the way for the class of beers [or lack of class, I should say] that Becky mentions…

  5. david January 27, 2006 at 6:02 pm #

    Hamm’s had a car­toon mas­cot. It was a danc­ing bear. It was hilar­i­ous. You can bet that you will not see a car­toon shilling brew for a major com­pany in this day and age. Ahh the good ol’ days. Our chil­dren are truly deprived.

  6. Jeff Coultas January 27, 2006 at 6:46 pm #

    I saw the fun­ni­est thing last week. I am pulling thru the drive thru and the car in front of me gets a 22 oz. can of Natty Light and 1 role of John Wayne towel paper. Now that’ that is some funny stuff. My vote today is for the Natty. The beer that 90% of its dis­tri­b­u­tion is drank on the front porches of white trash and col­lege keg­gers. I think there is still a rusty old can in the fork of the huge tree were Dusty and I were play­ing beer can hoops. Lastly can you believe what it did for David Bowman’s love life for over a decade.

  7. Doug January 28, 2006 at 12:30 am #

    At age 18, I wall­pa­pered my room with flat­tened Natty Light 12 packs.
    My mom: “Where did you get those?“
    Me (with a straight face): “Jenny. Oh, and I found some.”

    I drank the Nat almost exclu­sively through col­lege (all 5 and a half years). I would occa­sion­ally swith up, but only if the bar I was at didn’t have “God’s Milk” as we called it. Now that I’m rich and famous, I still some­times slum it and buy a sixer of the great­est col­lege beer of all time. And I can usu­ally count on Derek to have a cou­ple of ‘em around if i want to take a trip down mem­ory lane.

  8. Jeff Coultas January 28, 2006 at 5:41 am #

    MMM God’s Milk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  9. colleen January 28, 2006 at 9:29 pm #

    I am not sure what is wrong with all of you Spring­field cats but in Engle­tucky we did it right. Key­stone Light…bottled beer in a can.

  10. Joe June 8, 2006 at 11:45 pm #

    Dude…I’m 43 and still cheap! I love col­lege beer. Found your blog do a Google on collge beer for my blog. You’re the KING of col­lege beer blogs. Just bought a 12 pak of Pabst Blue Rib­bon for $4.99

    I also make my own beef jerky w/o a dehy­dra­tor. All nat­ural baby.

    Drink on kids…be responsibile…your folks aren’t pay­ing big $$ for you to act like fools. When in doubt, think DUKE!

  11. Sam August 24, 2006 at 2:31 pm #

    I’m still in school and I drink Nat­tie Ice or Light because it is only $12 for a 30 pack and like $45 for kegs. Key­stone is almost $18 for 30 packs.

  12. Ben February 13, 2007 at 9:19 pm #

    Although Im not in col­lege yet, I have had my fair share of “col­lege beers” i used to i went through a busch light phase, then a natty ice phase, no im goin through my key­stone light phase, i must say thogh, busch light and key­stone light are my 2 favorites :)

  13. tom August 28, 2007 at 9:02 pm #

    i have made love to all of these beers many times. and when i think back i really can’t remem­ber much. so i say drink them all. and if you’re going to drink these sorts of beer, you might as well do it in style:

    http://chugthatbeer.com/index.php?entry=entry070821-085348

    peace out y’all!

  14. lil t January 25, 2008 at 2:11 pm #

    i try new beers almost every time me and my bud make a packy run … i picked key­stone cause it tastes bet­ter tho busch lights not bad … even cheaper on that list im sur­prised that mil­wau­keess best ice didn’t make it tho its hard to find in a lotta pack­age stores, same with key­stone ice

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