Dry Beer, remember? | TheaterFire

I googled Pete's Wicked Ale a while ago out of curiosity. It was bought and consolidated by a poorly run company that had more cash which eventually went out of business.

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jondes99@reddit

I have the recipe saved in case I ever home brew again.

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Amishpornstar7903@reddit

I got a headache just from reading this.

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mommy2libras@reddit

Southpaw was the shit. 12 pack for 5 bucks, we got drunk. End of story. It was the closest to Bud Lught, too, in taste.

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HashN_Rice4Life@reddit

And the inside of the bottle caps had lots of different sayings

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Icehouse was the cheap draft at my 20's bar. 94 cents for a 22 oz pour. Bar was a dump, good odds of a stabbing, better odds of the clap, but I drank the shit out of Icehouse so it holds a special place

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fightingflamingos@reddit

I believe $1 deuce deuces was a staple of my college times.

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DisastrousWalk8442@reddit

They still sell Icehouse tall boys around me

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ConsciousEvo1ution@reddit

It also only took five minutes for the headache to kick in once I started drinking them, but I still drank plenty.

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Justgoing2112@reddit

Yep. Same here!!!

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spargel_gesicht@reddit

I’m kinda getting a headache just thinking about it.

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peakriver@reddit

Or Red Dog

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davekva@reddit

In the early 90's, I consumed more Molson Ice than any human should have. Bud Ice was beneath me. I only drank fancy Canadian Ice beer.

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Madcow3k@reddit

Moosehead.

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ToddPundley@reddit

How can you tell someone likes Moosehead?

They have antler marks on their thighs.

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tgrantt@reddit

There was Molson Dry, as well. A friend liked it.

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brooklynbotz@reddit

I loved Molson Ice. I'd toss a few back right now.

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LoathsomeGiant@reddit

I think it still available in Canada. And here and there i find Molson XXX

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Inevitable-Rush-2752@reddit

I feel like I’ve seen it on trips to see family up in Syracuse. I’ll have to check next time. Molson is tolerable stuff, and they seem to cram that and Labatts into the cookout coolers up there, as opposed to our Bud and Natty crap down south.

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Capital_Secret4962@reddit

There was a Molson Export in the US back in the 90's. It was pretty good.

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LoathsomeGiant@reddit

I do remember that!

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Middle_Share6558@reddit

Mole on has more ABV than regular beer, I can only imagine Molson Ice has to be ABV equivalent of Malt Liquor?

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Onyx_Lat@reddit

I used to laugh at the Bud Ice commercials because it always sounded like they were saying Butt Ice.

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schmearcampain@reddit

Didn’t it also sound like Butt Dry to you?

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Vericatov@reddit

Or even butt lite

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throwmethefrisbee@reddit

Beware of the Penguin.

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AMGRN@reddit

Doo bee doo bee do

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jondes99@reddit

The calls are coming from inside the house!

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TheLurkerSpeaks@reddit

Same phenomenon OP is talking about, too.

80s : Dry beer :: 90s : Ice beer

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anchises868@reddit

Never drank dry beer… or ice beer… but you just made me miss Smirnoff Ice Triple Black.

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old_namewasnt_best@reddit

Speaking of Zima....

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47ES@reddit

Zima was way ahead of its time. See all the alcoholic seltzers.

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ouijiboard@reddit

i only had zima once, and it was not what i was expecting at all. it was citrusy and super easy to drink. reminded me of squirt. all my friends at the time told me it was gross... oh how wrong they were. they stopped making it soon after though :(

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DrEnter@reddit

2000s : Good beer?

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SnowblindAlbino@reddit

We had plenty of good beer in the 80s, it just wasn't coming from the tanks at the corporate mega breweries or being advertised on TV.

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charliefoxtrot9@reddit

Isn't bud platinum just a repackage of bud ice?

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Sufferbus@reddit

Bud Ice very much still exists. I sell it at my store.

As do "Dry" beers....they are just relatively uncommon now.

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zsreport@reddit

And they weren’t “new” back in the 90s - Rheingold sold itself as a dry beer long before then.

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Cool-Coffee-8949@reddit

I had totally fused them in my memory until now. What was the difference? Besides branding. Did either term actually mean anything?

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Sufferbus@reddit

"Ice" means that part of the brewing process is done below freezing, which causes crystals to form; reportedly giving it a richer flavor. Not sure how much I agree personally, but...

"Dry" refers to a process which prevents residual sugar build-up. Sugar is created and fermented during the brewing process, but this results in a less-sweet, more-crisp flavor.

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bemenaker@reddit

Yes, just like in wine, a dry beer should not have any lingering sweetness after you swallow.

Ice beers, you freeze, and remove some of the ice, which is just water, you concentrate the beer flavor and increase abv. Ice beers are a classic German style.

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gbe28@reddit

Damn, you're right! I guess I just haven't seen it in forever (or maybe just not looking 😂)

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Sufferbus@reddit

I'd call that wisdom. You don't want to look for it.

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Budgiejen@reddit

Bud ice is alive and well and 2/$3 at U Stop

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Muggi@reddit

Here’s two scary facts:

they made Bud Dry until -2010-

They STILL MAKE BUD ICE

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jondes99@reddit

One row over from Mich Dry. And regular Michelin, for that matter.

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freebird37179@reddit

Bud Ice is still available in TN.

Bud Light Ice... RIP

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MinorDet@reddit

With my beer bong. Somewhere.

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Glittering_Estate_72@reddit

I was trying to remember the other word they tacked on to beer, thanks.

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RolandOfGilead@reddit

I liked Labatt Dry. I thought it had less of the beer after taste that I didn't care for in my younger days.

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Worried-Bicycle-7110@reddit

Why ask why? Drink Bud Dry!

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

I remember “Try Bud Dry”. And here I am decades later wondering what the hell dry beer was so I asked my phone and this is what it said.

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swisstype@reddit

Bud dry was always a special occasion. I think that and Labatts ice was the other, if I'm not mistaken, but those days are hazy

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Amishpornstar7903@reddit

Ummm hazy.

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MrsWelch@reddit

‘Yes I am’

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hyrle@reddit

I thought it was "Try Bud Dry", but - in my defense - I was a child.

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lazygerm@reddit

Diedrich from Drew Carey and Office Space!

I forgot about this!

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FriendofMaudie@reddit

Diedrich is the best. So happy to see this one from his archive.

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OrigamiMonkey@reddit

"I'd tell you what I'd man... Two chicks at the same time man."

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freshbananabeard@reddit

He also was the voice of Batman in the animated Brave and the Bold show!

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Fectiver_Undercroft@reddit

I didn’t want to hear someone who wasn’t Kevin Conroy when I started watching that, despite having cut my teeth on Superfriends, but when they did the Grey Ghost episode I finally appreciated how excellent he was for the tone of the show.

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equal_poop@reddit

I loved that episode where Oswald and Lewis swallowed a sponge so they could drink more beer and ended up in the hospital.

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gogiraffes@reddit

They had fun ads. One of my favorites: "Perché domanda perché?"

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DeeSnarl@reddit

I was a cinema student, and this commercial made me sad.

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FAHQRudy@reddit

Su Friedrich’s “Daddy Drink”

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gogiraffes@reddit

I can understand your view too. It's the layers of emotions & references that make the ad great, imo.

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Barlight@reddit

2 dollar bud dry till 9...We use to stack em up.Flats in Cleveland

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CorsoReno@reddit

“That’s an old reference”

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Onyx_Lat@reddit

I wasn't even old enough to drink beer then and that slogan is burned into my brain.

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aaronwcampbell@reddit

Same.

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CosmicTurtle504@reddit

gif

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moscowramada@reddit

Turns out we should’ve asked why.

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DrEnter@reddit

Now we’ll never know.

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spargel_gesicht@reddit

OH MY GOD. I had completely forgotten those commercials.

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shankthedog@reddit

I believe it was Try Bud Dry but could be mistaken

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JustFaithlessness178@reddit (OP)

Yes! Forgot that ad!

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Lesh_Philling@reddit

The craft industry reintroduced it a few years back as “Brut” ipas. Not my thing.

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noisician@reddit

I tried one “Brut” IPA but to me it didn’t taste at all like an IPA, so I wasn’t into it.

but I’m still not sure what brut or dry actually means for beer?

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Bobspadlock@reddit

Australia still has dry beer.

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theCock831@reddit

What made the “dry” taste distinguishable?

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ElGrandeRojo67@reddit

Rainier Dry was popular for about 6mos in Seattle. Hated it. I started drinking the original Red Hook ESB in the late ,80's. Was a great beer that everyone else hated. Too strong, too hoppy, too bitter. Then craft beers became the rage. Budweiser bought out Red Hook. Totally ruined it. Cpl yrs ago whomever owns the brand now brought back "The Original". Bullshit. Tastes like everyone else's shitty IPA's. Beer hasn't been good since '92 to '94. That's when everyone and their brother decided to become brew masters. They haven't made it. Georgetown Brewery in Seattle is decent. Rogue brewery in Oregon is pretty good, but I'd say 85-80% of the beers I've tried in the last 30yrs are just the same crappy IPAs and Lagers. Now I just sip Jameson's with an ice cube. Plus beer is too expensive.

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IAm5toned@reddit

here's a core memory for you:

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIINNNNNNNNNIIIEEEEEEER BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER

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ElGrandeRojo67@reddit

Lol...yep and The Artisans.

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suzy7517@reddit

I remember Kingsbury brew. A girl in my grammar school brought one for lunch. Some thought it was cool, I thought she was trying to show off.

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SanJacInTheBox@reddit

Bud Dry will always live on for me thanks to 'It's On The Rocks' by The Donnas!

That said, I definitely liked Michelob Dry back in the day, then Zima appeared and everyone just stopped drinking 'dry' beers.

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Ok_Sundae2107@reddit

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savedbytheblood72@reddit

My old coworker worked at the Pearl brewery here in Texas. Before they shut it down. He found out I used to drink Mickey's, and then he asked me

"you like Mickey's huh? Do you like Colt 45? "

I said no. He said "yeah you do". The Same thing, different color bottles 😵‍💫

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doktorhladnjak@reddit

Exactly the image I was looking for

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Ok_Sundae2107@reddit

https://youtu.be/RqfLOJGS_7o?si=tignGsNSMAfzGIQL

At 1:25

Hitler's head in a jar at 2:00

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nickfree@reddit

It still pisses me off know that this single pipe is cut off when you watch this on a 16:9 streaming service like Disney+, completely ruining the joke.

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Niven42@reddit

Agreed. Expand that thumbnail if you want to get the joke.

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Ezn14@reddit

You can set it to 4:3

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totallylegitburner@reddit

That’s not been the case for several years.

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ImmySnommis@reddit

Michelob Dry was for date nights. My girlfriend at the time (now wife) used to get the little pony bottles and brag about finishing a six by herself 😂

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xxMalVeauXxx@reddit

I loved Molson Dry while I was up in Quebec.

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bjb8@reddit

I was Molson Dry for a bit in the early 90s.

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Bella8088@reddit

Molson Dry was excellent.

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DerbGentler@reddit

It finally dried out.

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jtphilbeck@reddit

Same as “ice” beers. Drank plenty of Bud Ice. Fads.

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Capital_Secret4962@reddit

Don't forget the Red beer fad.

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spargel_gesicht@reddit

Omg what was it, Killians? I def went through that phase in late college.

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MasterOfKittens3K@reddit

Killians Red was definitely the “fancy” beer back in the mid to late eighties.

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Fitz_2112b@reddit

Yeah, if I was feeling fancy I'd go with Killian's or Lowenbrau

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JustFaithlessness178@reddit (OP)

Here's to good friends, tonight is kind of special. I loved Lowenbrau, and we always made fun of that commercial

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Fitz_2112b@reddit

And looking back now, I could recognize that it was absolutely shit beer

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Environmental-End691@reddit

Killian's was good on draft, but sucked in the bottle.

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Capital_Secret4962@reddit

Killians, Red Dog, Red Wolf...

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Phil__Spiderman@reddit

Red Dog isn't a red beer. I remember ads at the time saying something like "The dog's red, not the beer." Also, I drank a million of them back in the day. Used to collect the bottle caps.

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EquivalentOwn2185@reddit

thankyou for remembering red wolf i miss that one 🍺

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Yay_duh@reddit

Yep, Killians Irish Red

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Mr_Mumbercycle@reddit

Red beer was good though (comparatively, since we couldn't get imports or crafts).

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Adorableviolet@reddit

People thought my dad was "soft" for drinking Heinekens. But that was like our "craft beer" then.

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wsox74@reddit

And Gay beer.

https://youtu.be/hCOSejS1SSY?feature=shared

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AardvarkAapocolypse@reddit

I remember the penguin or what ever it was singing "dobee dobee dooo" in those commercials.

We all definitely drank dry and ice beers back in the day, but being underage drunks on a budget we mostly stuck to Old Milwaukee and Miller Lite.

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Bomber_Haskell@reddit

Everyone is overlooking Keystone Light. With that bottled beer taste in a can.

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darkhorsechris@reddit

Early 90’s - case of Keystone Light pounders was 9.99. Split 4 ways between me n my roommates for pre-gaming, and we were primed to hit the parties. That’s a lotta beer when u weigh like 100lbs!

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Middle_Share6558@reddit

Then it came out in bottles, like wtf is it supposed to taste like now?

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cronhoolio@reddit

Ice beer is a real thing, mostly in Germany. They freeze the beer, and the water turns tomice, which is removed, leaving behind a stronger (in flavor and alcohol) drink.

I doubt Bud Ice was this. But ya, Google Eisbock.

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Warhammer517@reddit

I've tried Kulmbacher Eisbock. I learned real quick to only drink Eisbock after eating a decent meal. I got a nice buzz from it.

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UpstairsCommittee894@reddit

Milwaukee best ice. That got me through high school.

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ElYodaPagoda@reddit

Couldn't go wrong with "The Beast!"

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bigheadstrikesagain@reddit

The Beeeast! Yeah I was gonna call it the same thing

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lilbearpie@reddit

Natural Ice Dry Light, for breakfast.

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CheetahOfDeath@reddit

Molson Special Dry was my go to beer for field parties

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mukwah@reddit

Molson Dry still exists in Canada

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Boxofbikeparts@reddit

What did dry beer even taste like? How was it different from beer?

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idio242@reddit

It has to do with the finish of the beer after you drink it. Rather than having leftover sugars, which keep you salivating, these do not. It’s like a “dry” wine, but that could be more to do with the oak. Same idea though, the finish of the drink is different in how your mouth perceives it.

Granted we’re talking Budweiser so who knows the reality of the product.

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KnoWanUKnow2@reddit

My dad was visiting Germany and at a pub asked for dry beer.

He got 3 beers.

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Beret_of_Poodle@reddit

All I can do over here is grieve for Michelob. Just plain Michelob.

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scottblk70@reddit

About as good as ice beer

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Negative_Country5955@reddit

Bud dry was trying to be like a dry wine Not sweet, not bitter, but something that dried your mouth out People like that style

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Large-Welder304@reddit

I was too busy drinking Beer Beer! $1.99 buys a 1/2 rack and you get the little puzzles under the bottle caps, too!

WEEEE!!!!

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imadork1970@reddit

I still drink Molson Dry.

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olderwombat@reddit

Australia enters the conversation

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housevil@reddit

I remember the ads but I didn't know what it was because I was a child. What even was dry beer? Makes its own sauce when you add water?

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Comprehensive-Tea121@reddit

My favorite beer is asahi super dry. Dry lives on!

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incogneeetoe@reddit

In South Korea they have recently started selling both "Dry" and "Ice" versions of old stand-by brands. Trying to attract attention in the face of a burgeoning craft beer industry...not unlike US and Canada in the late 80s/early 90s.

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Quijotic_Quest@reddit

Interestingly Asahi Super Dry is still the #1 beer in Japan. It was introduced in 1987 a few years before Bud Dry and was likely the inspiration for all the dry beers in the US as it quickly grabbed market share

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okazakiom@reddit

I moved to Japan for my junior year studies about six months after the debut of Asahi Super Dry. It was just becoming massively popular and, I'll admit, my 20 year old self loved it at the time. Bottles from vending machines...bubble-era Japan was something else entirely. Nothing like it is now, kind of sadly.

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jayhawkwds@reddit

We have Duff, Duff light, and Duff dry. What's the future of Duff, well we have a few things up our sleeves. Like what? Nothing, we have nothing.

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jimb575@reddit

You can try Düff…

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TheFirst10000@reddit

I forget the brand -- Asahi, maybe? -- that ran some horrible-ass commercials for their dry beer.

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SaintStephen77@reddit

And don’t forget ice beers, lol. Molson, Labatt’s, Icehouse, Bud Ice, etc.

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NameNumberNumber@reddit

I was a Molson Dry guy during the peak "dry" years. Still available in some old school joints in Toronto.

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mike___mc@reddit

A pack of cigarettes and a six pack for less than five bucks.

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SC_Scuba@reddit

We used to be a proper country

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WHEENC@reddit

gif

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imllikesaelp@reddit

Yeah, because of this fucking clown.

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whatthedevil666@reddit

In ‘93 we would get a 6-pack of highlife tall boys and a pack of smokes for $3.10.

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endosurgery@reddit

In 93 went to Corpus Christi on spring break and bought a 24 of Hamms for 5 bucks and a 60oz bottle of JD for $20

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whatthedevil666@reddit

Hahaha that’s awesome

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endosurgery@reddit

It was. I have pics of me hanging out two fisting Hamms in my hypercolor tshirt

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Middle_Share6558@reddit

You can still get Hamms and for a cheap beer it’s actually pretty good

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tnseltim@reddit

Same, but it was 2 quarts of colt 45 and a pack of Marlboro lights for $5.

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j4yne@reddit

As well, but King Cobra and American Spirits.

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spargel_gesicht@reddit

Good times.

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tranquilrage73@reddit

Breakfast of Champions!

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RichardPryor1976@reddit

Bud Dry was one of my favorite beers

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NotNobody_Somebody@reddit

Plenty of dry beers in Australia.

Carlton Dry Hahn Super Dry Steersman Ultra Dry Tooheys Extra Dry

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Loveandafortyfive@reddit

Molson Dry at 5.5% was always very good.

Saw it a few years back, but not sure if it’s still around.

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ExploreYourWhirled@reddit

Japan still has it and it’s terrific.

Asahi Super Dry Beer Bottles - 21.4 Fl. Oz.

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Pillar67@reddit

Dry is the sort of Japanese style.l os Asahi, Sapporro and Kirin. Here in SoCal we have Skyduster Superdry Lager which is great and really popular, especially in the restaurants.

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Cool-Coffee-8949@reddit

I had totally fused “dry” and “ice” in my memory. Was there any meaningful difference? Was it all just BS? (I kind of assume this is the answer).

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lostinexiletohere@reddit

Man, some of my best times in the Army involved Michelob Dry. Sunday evening, when we were in the barracks, there was a group of us would get a case or two of Michelob Dry, order a couple of pizzas, then shine our boots and press our BDUs while watching Married With Children, COPS, America's Most Wanted, Tracy Ulman show. This went on from late 1989 till the summer of 1990, except for the three-plus months we were in Panama.

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Spiritual-Island4521@reddit

I remember.When I was a teenager we used to drink almost anything.

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Ok_Arachnid1089@reddit

MD 2020 baby

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ainokea79@reddit

remeber ICE beers??

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Ok_Arachnid1089@reddit

They were awful! Instant headache

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Specific_Ad_97@reddit

Even Old Style had a dry beer. My friends were in the commercial.They shot it at a local nightclub in Chicago called Medusa's. Song by Ministry. https://youtu.be/UprN8OEkP-Y?si=HqQr4OmDFEIvmXim

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Ok_Arachnid1089@reddit

I think I remember that commercial!

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Ok_Arachnid1089@reddit

I’m still looking for a beer that’s been kreusened since Old Style stopped doing it. Surely there has to be some out there.

I can’t even get Old Style where I live. My mom brings it to me when she visits once a year

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robszmyd@reddit

Bud dry was the surprise quarterback during the bud vs bud light game.

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Ok_Arachnid1089@reddit

Wait. Did Budweiser and Michelob actually make beer that was good? I never tried it

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theogskippy24@reddit

Keystone Dry was out for like a month.

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Cake_Donut1301@reddit

What about wheat beers? Wasn’t that a thing for like half a year?

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TheNotoriousSHAQ@reddit

I remember 1989 college spring break in south padre island, Texas. Bud dry was everywhere

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spargel_gesicht@reddit

3 years later, same picture, all Bud Ice.

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spargel_gesicht@reddit

3 years later, same picture, all Zima!

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Cake_Donut1301@reddit

My college was a test market for Zima so people had cases of the shit from giveaways and such. I don’t recall anyone drinking it.

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Warhammer517@reddit

It's not Dry Beer, but I remember the Coors Party Ball.

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Head-Major9768@reddit

Like ICE beer.

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Standard_Gur30@reddit

It all evaporated

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Ravenloff@reddit

Dry ICE beer. When we got back from Saudi, a whole new group of beers was available, Zima was available. Goldschlager was available.

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Puzzled-End-3259@reddit

Michelob dry tasted pretty good from a 16 year old point of view

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ChoakIsland@reddit

Molson Dry.

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Exciting_couple77@reddit

I still say Bud Dry after someone says Why ask Why

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TravelerMSY@reddit

Didn’t IPAs take their place?

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Dirty_Wookie1971@reddit

Then in the early 90’s everything became “ice” beer…

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mom2ajs5@reddit

Omg! I completely forgot about that! What the hell was that about? Lol

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brycepunk1@reddit

I loved Michelob Dry.

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CitizenChatt@reddit

I fell for the marketing and drank Bud Dry. Can't remember much about it except I went back to Red Dog soon after (hic) 🤠

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largos7289@reddit

HMM i don't remember that, i do remember ice beer thou, bud ice, molten ice etc...

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Square-Wing-6273@reddit

And ice beer. I had so many molson ice in my teens...

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instantlyregredditit@reddit

Molson ice was my go to back then! My group was all about icehouse but the Canadians knew better….and still do

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cerealandcorgies@reddit

the ice beers had a higher alcohol by volume, iirc. I think that's why we picked them up

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Square-Wing-6273@reddit

I believe it. And, we used to go to Canada, which wasn't restricted to alcohol content, like NY used to be.

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Swampcrone@reddit

And could drink at 19

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Square-Wing-6273@reddit

Yes! And just cross the border with no problems.

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captaincobol@reddit

7.9% ftw!

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MusicMan7969@reddit

Molson Ice was my go to beer! Drank a few of them.

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Zen_Hydra@reddit

I remember it, but in the rural Midwest town I grew up Natty Light was the order of the day.

I was too much of a slacker to stay at a high-school job longer than a couple paychecks. So, the sophisticated tastes of the dry beer drinking bourgeoisie were typically beyond the reach of my slim wallet. I was too busy with perilous misadventures to be a decent employee back then.

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FnEddieDingle@reddit

I went to school where the Vikings had training camp and I'm sitting at a bar by myself and Jim McMahon sat next to me and drank a Bud Dry

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Ok_Mango_6887@reddit

I’ve never drank beer. What is a dry beer?

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Soylent_Milk2021@reddit

Why ask why? Try Bud Dry.

Not sure what made it special, but my friends and I who were in our twenties at the time, we drank a lot of Bud dry at home parties.

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Anxious_Rip3101@reddit

Yeah it dried up

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SammieCat50@reddit

Who remembers Bud Ice?

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everettsuperstar@reddit

Michelob Dry was my favorite when I was like 13-15!

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jbeams32@reddit

Miller genuine draft…. From a bottle?

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Freepi@reddit

From a can.

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noah_ichiban@reddit

In Japan they have Asahi Super Dry

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requiemguy@reddit

I'm a white dude from AZ I grew up drinking Sol, Dos Equis and Corona with my friends. Our Boomer dads drank "shitweiser, shitchelob, old shitwaukee, etc", I'm not saying we were the most creative.

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0331-USMC@reddit

About the same time as the clear deodorant phase

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OneRuffledOne@reddit

Doesn't Gillette still have a clear deodorant?

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Sinister_m71@reddit

That stuff sat like a brick in your stomach. Absolute crap beer.

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struggle_better@reddit

I think it was a marketing strategy that dovetailed with the rise of diet sodas. Instead of light or lower calorie beers that became popular later, they first tried saying beer was dry or had no residual sugar. But damn if I don’t remember how refreshing a Michelob Dry tasted in the back of a leisure-suit brown ‘76 Plymouth Volare. I can still smell the Newports smoked into the orange shag carpet, yet with a cold beer I thought it Shangri-La.

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ImNotTheBossOfYou@reddit

Lite beers predated dry beers by nearly two decades.

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struggle_better@reddit

Sure did. And they didn’t get really popular until the 90s.

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DeFiClark@reddit

Asahi Super Dry was still very much a thing in the UK at least pre pandemic … you can still buy it at Tesco so guessing it’s still a thing

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dddybtv@reddit

And then everything got "Ice Cold"

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-BigDaddyTex@reddit

I think u mean bud ice. Icehouse. Red dog. I don’t remember dry and I bartended early 90’s and started drinking when the rest of yall did. Born in 74 lol

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SnowblindAlbino@reddit

Just as was the case with "ice" beers in the 1990s. It's all bullshit from the megabreweries, nobody I knew drank any of that crap anyway...by the mid-1980s real, local, microbrewed beers were available on both coasts at least. I'm almost 60 and have had Bud maybe twice in my life, but the first college party I went to (in my dorm) had a pony of some local porter. Who drank "dry" beers? I have no idea, but I can guess.

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Sad-Corner-9972@reddit

I remember some Michelob Dry that was very good, but then the quality slipped and then it disappeared.

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FatGuyOnAMoped@reddit

At least it's not Miller Clear

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elgrandefrijole@reddit

Absolute instant headache

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builderjer@reddit

https://youtu.be/BOP5PBIghhc?si=TPHNxTp5cJ2jEluB

Bitter beer face was my favorite. Keystone light. I grew up next to coors, so Keystone was the go to. Killians was also a coors beer

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Please_Go_Away43@reddit

Unrelated: "Drink Canada Dry" -- and die of alcohol poisoning.

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tboy160@reddit

Shiiiiit, I forgot all about Bud Dry!!

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DueConversation5269@reddit

There is an Osaka dry beer, served at sushi places... it's supposed to clean your palate of flavor as you eat different style pieces. I is also very light, wouldn't say watery but easy to drink

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Turbulent_Tale6497@reddit

Mmm, Keystone Dry. Stuff was so cheap that if you opened the can too hard, you’d rip it

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Ok-Rock2345@reddit

When my buds were dry, I would smoke em'.

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InadmissibleHug@reddit

Dry beers are still a thing here in Aus.

I absolutely miss proper ice beers. There was a product called Carlton Cold, it was the best. Then they changed to formula to appeal to the mid strength crowd, and it tasted like watered down beer.

Of course, now I can’t drink most beers at all, coz coeliac. Hahn does an extra dry that’s a rice based beer and it’s ok.

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Peloton72@reddit

Michelob Dry was our high school go to. We were fancy. 😂 I wonder how it would stand up head-to-head with Ultra?

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tnseltim@reddit

You were ballin. It’s was old Milwaukee or malt liquor for me

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EngineeringTom@reddit

I would think relatively well. Mich Ultra is a perm in a bottle.

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her-royal-blueness@reddit

I don’t remember this. I remember Zima though. Ew

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fuhnetically@reddit

"never to be hard from again"... You mean it dried up...

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JiminPA67@reddit

That crap always gave me a headache.

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SouthOrlandoFather@reddit

To me Bud Dry hit hard for marketing in 1992 in Iowa City, Iowa. Felt like I drank it for 3 months and never saw it again.

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Recon_Figure@reddit

I wonder if mods will find this "not relevant to the sub" and more suitable for r/nostalgia.

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Vitalsigner@reddit

Guess they dried up.

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elcaminogirl@reddit

Alive and well in the form of Asahi Super Dry. Check your location sushi joint or Asian grocery that carries alcohol. Or not.

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TwoAmoebasHugging@reddit

What, exactly, did “dry” mean? Not sweet, like a dry wine? Or something else, like toasted?

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airckarc@reddit

I remember the ads for Keystone Light: “whoa, bitter beer face.” Beer was advertised as being smooth. Then immediately after they started selling these freaking awful IPAs like Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. I’d get one at a bar because I guess I wanted to be cool, or more mature in my taste. I’m thankful now that there’s so many microbreweries as options.

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JustFaithlessness178@reddit (OP)

Keystone. The beer of college.

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ninesevenecho@reddit

Milwaukee’s Best. And if you simply wanted to get drunk fast - shotgun Beast Ice

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MixCalm3565@reddit

And of my Dad, may he rest in peace.

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JustFaithlessness178@reddit (OP)

So sorry. Here's to your dad.

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EngineeringTom@reddit

Had a buddy that would go camping and get a sixer of Coors and a thirty-rack of Keystone. I asked him why and his answer as he was holding up the Coors was that after a couple of these, what the other tastes like doesn’t matter.

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spargel_gesicht@reddit

Legit why I’ll cave and buy whatever swill from the guy in a hot day at the baseball game. I don’t have to get up? And it’s ice cold? Sold!

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EngineeringTom@reddit

Absolutely!

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beyondplutola@reddit

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale isn’t an IPA. It’s an APA born in the 1970s, therefore more balanced and less bitter than an IPA. Though Sierra Nevada does sell several varieties of IPAs today.

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LumpyheadCarini2001@reddit

But Sierra Nevada Pale Ale was fuckin delicious

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cowboyJones@reddit

I was not a beer drinker until mid-college. At our HS senior party, someone gave me a Bud Dry and it just tasted like corn. I was nursing it a long time.

A long time later, someone asked how I was doing, grabbed my beer to see how much is left, tossed it and said, “This one’s warm. Let’s get you another!”

Then gave me another.

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a_murder_of_fools@reddit

Its still very much a thing in parts of Canada. ... Molson Dry ... Labatt Dry...even Extra Dry.

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shakeyjake@reddit

Asahi Super Dry is still my go to beer when having sushi.

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Neosapien24@reddit

Mate! You’re right! I’m here in New Zealand and one of our popular beers DB Export Dry has mysteriously disappeared too. It was a good drop but has been discontinued without any fanfare. We still have Steinlager Tokyo Dry though

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bagoTrekker@reddit

https://youtu.be/Er2xC-eTu7A

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Big_Nas_in_CO@reddit

Ice Beers ftw. Had higher alcohol content.

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t0msie@reddit

The two major players here in Australia still each have a 'dry' offering.

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togocann49@reddit

Still can get dry beer where I am. In fact I have a couple of Molson dry in fridge

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scoscochin@reddit

Asahi Super Dry was the original Dry. 1987

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Cleetus_76@reddit

Why ask why?

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HoneybucketDJ@reddit

Yea we bought 3 cases of that shit and went camping.

All of us had massive heart burn after the first night. Had to drive back to town and buy normal beer.

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MomsSpagetee@reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xennials/s/yABdscfZss

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LylaDee@reddit

Hahahah! Awesome

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BuddyOZ@reddit

Don’t remember any of those beers. The only widely available dry beer I’m aware of is Guinness Stout.

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notguiltybrewing@reddit

I remember Japanese dry beers that were available long after Bud Dry and other American dry beers disappeared.

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Infinite_Weather_695@reddit

Asahi super dry!

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st162@reddit

Tooheys Extra Dry is still very popular in Australia

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FartingAliceRisible@reddit

Also ice beer

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brickbaterang@reddit

Ice beer is still on the shelf next to natty daddy

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xocolatte@reddit

Why ask why? Try Bud Dry.

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GrandeT42@reddit

I remember really liking the dry beers. It was probably the first alcohol I chose for myself.

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Astorstranata@reddit

I drank a ton of Bud Dry. Supposedly, no aftertaste. All the Ice beers would dehydrate you and you'd have a serious headache.

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pruplegti@reddit

Molson Dry!

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vanislandgirl19@reddit

Molson Special Dry!

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ElYodaPagoda@reddit

I turned 21 in 1996, so by the time I could seek out some Bud Dry and try it, it was long gone. Before turning 21, it was "whatever's cheap and gets you shitty drunk" and that would never involve any of those beers.

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Azzhole169@reddit

They were only popular in small market areas or they wouldn’t have stopped producing them. It’s all about the total sales. What sells,stays. What don’t, goes.

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Calamitous_Waffle@reddit

Followed closely by ice beer, which I drank too much of.

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Thirty_Helens_Agree@reddit

One night, a friend had had a few and tried to say “Bud Ice Draft Light” and it came out “Butt Ass Dright Laft,” and that name stuck.

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Hey-buuuddy@reddit

The “ICE” beers started in the 90s. Molson Ice was a big one we drank.

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tranquilrage73@reddit

"Why ask why? Drink Bud Dry."

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NullRazor@reddit

It dried up.

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Mindless-Employment@reddit

"Why ask why? Try Bud Dry" just popped into my head. I hadn't thought about that in 30 years. And those Michelob Dry commercials that you couldn't even tell what they were an ad for until the beer finally showed up when the commercial was almost over:

https://youtu.be/-ZxTrnSwI7k?si=0PyrY_zOMcZivz2C

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Neither-Power1708@reddit

I remember powdered margarita mix for a buck, getting hammered and regretfully snorting lines of said product