The Champaign of Bottled Beers

Posted by Embarrassed_Flan_869@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 68 comments

For the love all that we hold dear, when did we get so old. Seriously.

Two "kids", college aged, were just walking near me. One was wearing a Miller High Life shirt. One looked at his friends shirt and said, "Miller High Life? I've never heard of it." I said, "It's the champaign of bottled beers."

The vacant stare I got with the, "Huh? What do you mean?"

I am going to go buy some dentures, just to soak them.

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Quadraought@reddit

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Blue_Henri@reddit

It’s in my fridge. We have it after working in the yard during the summer. We call them “Yard Beers”.

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Barbarella_ella@reddit

That's the only time I ever remember my dad drinking beer at home. And it was Miller. It was in these funny short bottles.

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BiggyGKeeg1@reddit

Miller Ponies. You can still get them and they’re great! I

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Barbarella_ella@reddit

When I turned 21 and started going to bars, Miller/MGD was my go-to beer, based on those memories of my dad. Pretty refreshing when it's cold, so I could see why Dad liked it.

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Blue_Henri@reddit

I think mine was Michelin Light strictly because of MY dad! I swear it doesn’t taste the same since they changed from the curvy bottle.

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Fr33brd@reddit

I stay strapped with High Life ponies🤘🏾

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BiggyGKeeg1@reddit

Sadly no longer in the 8 packs. We used to get a case of the 8 packs. 48 bottles of beer on the wall !!

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Fr33brd@reddit

I remember those, but in MD we had "Flats" which was 3 eight packs. We used to get them in High Life, Bud Light and Colt-45.

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OolongGeer@reddit

Younger folk drink a lot less than GenX.

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FAx32@reddit

Especially beer, and those that do drink a lot less of the mass produced national lagers.

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FAx32@reddit

Bitter Beer Face?

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Relevant-Net1082@reddit

When you pull on old, cultural references, it's going to alienate people who haven't been exposed to your timeline. This happened to us with the boomers however, their culture was so dominant and what they liked became the defective standard for America that we are used to having those references ram down our roads. Let's be better and not confused when younger people not only don't understand, but don't have the intellectual curiosity to look it up to understand.

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MaxDoor@reddit

"If you've got the time, we've got the beer."

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Norm_Charlatan@reddit

🎶 "Miller beer!" 🎶

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IowaNobody@reddit

High Life is my beer of choice to this day

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ElectricMilk426@reddit

I always knew it as “The Champagne of Beers” but I am only 40. Maybe they only had bottles when y’all were drinking it

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No_Caterpillar_8573@reddit

Makes me remember in junior high Miller Lite commercials were big and at a pep rally the opposite sides of the gym started yelling out, “Tastes great!” and “Less filling!” The staff was not amused.

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Key-Contest-2879@reddit

That chant made the rounds at our lunch table in the cafeteria. Teachers didn’t give a shit. About anything, apparently.

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phishftw@reddit

We did the chant at the pep rally but there were two preps who had it written on two sheets sewn together with holes for their heads and they would rotate back and forth as we would yell tastes great less filling depending on the side. The picture was in my annual and my 8 year younger bf was like wtaf... Thinks Gen x is crazy!

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Independent-Big1966@reddit

My Junior High student body did the EXACT same thing at a pep rally!! What city did you grow up in??

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No_Caterpillar_8573@reddit

Arlington, Texas. Assuming 1966 refers to your birth year you would have been in high school when this happened for me.

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Independent-Big1966@reddit

No. 1966 wasn't my birth year. I was in Junior High from 1985-1987. 7th-9th grades. Wrong state but crazy coincidence!

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retreff@reddit

Here in Portland, Oregon when craft beer was at its peak, people would order one craft beer and then share a pitcher of Pabst Blue Ribbon, PBR. One day the group I was with was extolling the virtues of PBR. I asked if they knew the country song about PBR: Red neck, White shirt and Blue Ribbon beer… They switched back to their craft beer…..

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Ok-Entertainment5045@reddit

That’s my dad’s favorite beer. It’s ok, not great. I’m gen x

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locothedas@reddit

We had an A&P in easy walking distance from our apartment. $2.99 for a six-pack, $2 Luckies. Then after taking a break from college for a while, the best dive bar this side of Scotland-also in easy walking distance from the house-had ice-cold High Life for $1 each. There was no possibility for sobriety in the 90s.

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Aromatic-Ganache-902@reddit

I went to Catholic school in the 80s and our band director Fr. Brock had our band play "This Bud's For You" at all the pep rallies and games. It was awesome!

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Advanced_Tax174@reddit

You should have said, “just ask John Madden”. lol

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ShadowPilotGringo@reddit

But weekends were made for Michelob

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cookiesandpunch@reddit

But tonight, tonight let it be Lowenbrau

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LevelPerception4@reddit

I loved that commercial as a child, don’t recall ever seeing the brand once I was old enough to drink. Apparently, Miller licensed the brand in the US until the 1990s, after which it was no longer available here.

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cookiesandpunch@reddit

Much like a domestic version of Grolsch. It tasted like a bloody steak in a bottle.

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TZX13@reddit

I hated the taste of Miller High Life. Champaign my ass, it tastes like piss.

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theUnshowerdOne@reddit

Funny you mentioned dentures... I literally just woke up from a nap where I dreamed half my teeth needed to be extracted and thought, "Fuck it. Pull them all. I'll get dentures. How's my insurance?"

Now, my wife's culture believes that a dream where you lose teeth is an omen of financial good luck for the future.

The only omen I see is I'm getting older and worried about losing my teeth.

That reminds me I better check my insurance.

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Eelmonkey@reddit

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whirlydad@reddit

I drank a lot of High Life this summer. It had been a while and a suitcase was cheap.

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FPB270@reddit

I get a 6 of talls at the Food Lion for like 7 bucks.

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MhojoRisin@reddit

I rediscovered it a year or two ago. It’s not the best beer, but for the price, it really isn’t bad.

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Tall_Flatworm2589@reddit

Can get a Light version also. Can't get 30 packs like the regular where I'm at. $8.99/12.

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Mike9797@reddit

No I refuse to believe we are old. He was just an idiot. Everyone knows High Life is the Champagne of Beers?! Right?

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itusedtorun@reddit

In the middle of one as we speak.

Have been on a cheap beer kick for a while, and this stuff is as good now as it was in high school.

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argherna@reddit

The beers of Champaign county are pretty good. Come visit some time.

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dreaminginteal@reddit

You mean "champagne". Which is the region in France where the wine named for the region comes from.

"Champaign" is a city in Illinois, where the University of Illinois is.

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Xistential0ne@reddit

It was a queen song The Champaigns of Urbana.

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dreaminginteal@reddit

LOL!

There was actually an R&B group back when named "Champaign", after the city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champaign_(band)

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Ocstar11@reddit

Always smooth never bitter.

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Shawnchittledc@reddit

The Champaign Illinois of beers? 🤣

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Dogyears69@reddit

I don’t remember the word “bottled” in the slogan.

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kckitty71@reddit

I toured the Miller Plant with my grandma when I was 18. My grandma gave me all of her free beer samples.

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keithrc@reddit

The one in Fort Worth, or a different one? I grew up near that brewery.

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kckitty71@reddit

No, it was the brewery in Milwaukee. I guess I should have mentioned that.

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teachthisdognewtrick@reddit

When I visited Milwaukee for a job interview years ago I stopped in a bar for lunch and a beer. That Miller off the tap was something else. If that was what came out of the bottles I’d never drink anything else. Sadly it’s just another generic American beer when bottled or canned.

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Beerinspector@reddit

I was helping students running a bottling machine. A platform got stuck. I punched down on it, it went down, I went “ehhhhh” with a thumbs up.

Crickets.

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BreakerBoy6@reddit

Remember the sparkling wine ad?

She: "OMG I just luvvvvv this deelishis champagne!!!"

He: "Dearie, for the tenth freaking time, it's Martini & Rossi Asti Spumante..."

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theflamingskull@reddit

I remember when a quart jumped to $1.29. High school me wasn't happy.

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