Mickey’s 40 oz. An xennial relic fa sho.

😆 steel reserve?!?.... Oh man, that shit was great, IF you were looking to get drunk AND nauseated fast. Often being late to gatherings I'd have to play "catch up". Two tallboys of SR (on an empty stomach) would get me there, three would get me sick.

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TheFuckingHippoGuy@reddit

Wear a kilt

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FungiStudent@reddit

Its 6.6 beers in an hour. A 40oz is 3.3 12oz beers. But yeah it would get you drunk fast.

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FastWalkingShortGuy@reddit

Steely is about twice the alcohol content of commercial ale.

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jockfist5000@reddit

80/12 is 6.666667 so it’s a bit over a six pack, not over a case.

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FastWalkingShortGuy@reddit

Steely is 8% ABV, so it's about 10 regular beers.

See, I can't do math anymore. That's what 40 Hands did.

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lakatos_intolerant@reddit

Absolutely this. Did it once with one of my best friends. Never again.

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Want-me-sleeeepzzz@reddit

Came here to say that…

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Rdubya291@reddit

Yeah it was... Saw so many dudes piss themselves playing that game.

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higglesworth@reddit

OE 800 never again lol

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RedditGotSoulDoubt@reddit

This and walking down stairs at my dorm. It’s a wonder I survived to adulthood

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AntiqueCandidate7995@reddit

Holy shit I haven't thought about that in forever 😂😂😂 so many bad decisions

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Mail_Order_Lutefisk@reddit

God, I can still taste this coming back up. Game 6, Jordan wasn’t the only one puking. My buddy bought a ton of those little bottles of this and I hurled it all along with an entire Jack’s frozen pizza. Pepperoni.

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

Haha did you actually do it?!?

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BoredPandemicPanda@reddit

There was an attempt. Look…I’m just glad there weren’t any cameras or internet around is all I’m saying. Mistakes were made.

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actionerror@reddit

The taste of youth and regret

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Ok_Medicine_1112@reddit

With so much shit out there nowadays this and Budweiser are on the same tier

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tigertank86@reddit

Drink little below label. Then add a sparks( 4loco) sidewalk slam

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tigertank86@reddit

Rather take a 40 oz cobra

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Other_Seesaw_trees@reddit

Do they still sell 40oz?

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Altruistic_Taro_2858@reddit

We always drank grenades... Never could stand 40s

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Skywren7@reddit

That and Steel Reserve, made me hurl so much. I do not miss drinking those things . 🤣

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Snoo-12313@reddit

Oh man, thinking about the slightly sweet smell of Steel Reserve is enough to make me want to hurl.

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Skywren7@reddit

The only time I literally saw double was after drinking that devil piss.

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dumpsterfiremktg@reddit

🤢 Those two go pound for pound in the inexplicably terrible pissing contest of piss poor beers. Truly abominations and bottom of the barrel bullshit. I am not hard to please, either

On a side note, imagine if Voodoo Ranger G-Force had a 40 lmao. At least that god forsaken ass munching hops from hell taste comes with a legitimate whole body buzz.

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swmodel19-3@reddit

Remember the 64 once jug

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Glittering_Bug_3554@reddit

Flashback to cracking the top and slamming Mickey Grenades. Then trying to figure out the puzzles. 😂😂

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b33lzebubba775@reddit

I went to Highschool with a dude who got the Mickey's Hornet Tatted on hos bicep on his 18th birthday. I randomly find myself wondering if he survived his 20s.

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NewHampshireAngle@reddit

Green Death

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Darkest_Rahl@reddit

Did the larger bottle also have the puzzle under the cap?

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Larryville-1980@reddit

The 40s got way too warm that’s why you got a sticker of the hand grenades

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Pleasant-Reading3634@reddit

Weren't those like $2 back in the day?

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IAm5toned@reddit

Mickey's 22oz for 99¢ was far more lethal

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781zero@reddit

Does anyone remember when they had them in 22 oz and called them Mickeys Hornets?

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Queasy_Connection738@reddit

Mickey’s Ice in 22s were awesome

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Queasy_Connection738@reddit

Mickey’s Ice 22s were goddamn delicious and I will never say otherwise!

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First_Joke_5617@reddit

Natty Daddy isn't as skunky.

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drupi79@reddit

never in a 40 but the grenades of mickey's... that was my jam

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Rex_Gently@reddit

Only thing worse was Edward 40-hands

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_Internet_Hugs_@reddit

There was a kid at my high school known as 40Boy. He could chug an entire 40oz of the cheapest beer.

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59apache01@reddit

My cheap shit was Colt 45

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OkieRising@reddit

A lot of core memories unlocked here

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jadedlens00@reddit

Did anybody else ever try “jangling?” It’s where you drink the 40 down to the top of the label and add grape or orange soda to fill it back up. (And then repeat as many times as you want or need.) It was.::. not the worst.

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Temporary-Jump-2403@reddit

Yep orange juice. NGL I really enjoyed that.

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

Yea. With OJ we called that a brass monkey. We def did it

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thirtyaught6@reddit

Ah, puke-soaked and terrible hangover high school memories. Mickey's, OE, Little Kings, Cobra, and super cheap stuff that the label fell off. Good times.

Anyone else make Brass Monkeys or Beermosas with these? Drink the beer down so the cone was empty and fill that part back up with OJ or Sunny D. I just got a weird craving for pizza rolls and bagel bites.

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

Yep. Brass monkeys was a good way to go

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HotgunColdheart@reddit

I can still hear the sound one of these makes when it strikes a head.

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

Jfc

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Objective-Dust4795@reddit

I remember when Mickey’s was the OG sponsor of UFC. Now UFC is just unbearable.

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

And Mickeys tastes better than ever

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emerican@reddit

I’ve been on reddit for like 13 or 14 years. This is the best post I’ve ever come across

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

Thanks!

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AlchemistMustang@reddit

We couldn't get 40oz in Florida. 32 max. But what we did instead was "Power Hour". One sip of beer every minute for an hour.

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

Yea. I joined the century club. One shot every minute for 100 mins. We had designated sober friend keep up on track otherwise it would have been impossible. I almost lost everything that night lmao

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billbrasky512@reddit

Why isn't your hand duct taped?

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Nightshade111@reddit

Are these still around? I remember my dad used to let me drink one on the way home from the liquor store. I was like six, so typical xenial childhood.

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

Yes. I just bought this one today.

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Nightshade111@reddit

I quit alcohol a long time ago, but I think I'll go buy some just for nostalgia sake.

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CrotalusHorridus@reddit

Hwat? You’d drink a 40 of malt liquor when you were six?

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Nightshade111@reddit

No, they were the little grenade ones, but still. Drank one on the way home 2 or 3 times a week.

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Negative-Wrap95@reddit

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

LMAO

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Bitplayer13@reddit

Photo gave me a headache

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Lucky_Louch@reddit

growing up in CO we only had 32oz ones but those were what we drank... I still miss that skunky goodness sometimes.

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uncle_monty@reddit

Malt liquor was never a thing in the UK. I've never tried it, but in my head it's similar to Special Brew, which I only ever drank if there was absolutely nothing else.

Cider was our go to cheep booze when I was growing up. Merrydown was a staple for bottled cider, or rough cider like Cheddar Valley or Black Rat. Even a bit of White Lightning now and again if you wanted to get arseholed quickly, but that stuff isn't much better than Special Brew.

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Mr_SunnyBones@reddit

Yeah trying to think of an Irish/UK equivalent and the closest is either Carlsberg export cans or a big bottle of Lindon Village or Old English ( cider) ..or maybe buckfast . 4oz is about 2 pints roughly so its a weird size.

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BulimicMosquitos@reddit

I will not stand for the Camo erasure.

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oh_hai_mark1@reddit

King cobra was mine

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palmerry@reddit

When I got blackout drunk, I unknowingly also offended an entire nation 😞

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matagin@reddit

I remember it being syrupy

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

Def used to drink these as well

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

lol no memory of this 1

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RYB4CKST4CT1CS@reddit

Oh my goodness. I thought my best friend and I are the only ones who dared to drink these. It was rough.

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BulimicMosquitos@reddit

Cheers to the many nights we’ve forgotten due to the troops amassing disguised in Camo.

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Wapiti_whacker82@reddit

Why isn't it duct taped to your hand?

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hey_suburbia@reddit

Me and my wife - 1997

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craftbrewd@reddit

I would drink these and turn into the absolute worst version of myself when I was in college.

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iamnoone815@reddit

I always preferred the 22 Hornets

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Abpoe77@reddit

I had flashbacks right now to 97/8 Gunner's Mate A school. Ouch ouch ouch.

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PrettyYellow8808@reddit

It also used to come in 7 oz. wide mouth bottles, 8 pack. That was late 70s and early 80s. Mickeys big mouths.

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Shaggy214@reddit

It looks weird outside of the brown paper bag.

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engrish_is_hard00@reddit

I still drink it

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Foxy_locksy1704@reddit

I work at a liquor store. One of my regulars is a guy named Micky that buys you guessed it Micky’s 40s. He buys two everyday says it brand loyalty one Micky hanging out with other Micky’s.

He’s a super nice guy, but I just have to laugh at Micky buying Micky’s.

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WorriedMarch4398@reddit

Thought they only came in hand grenades.

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instant_ramen_chef@reddit

We drank the hand grenades. 40's were for Ole E and St. Ides. Later, the move was the 40oz of Steel Reserve 211.

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Damet_Dave@reddit

Ohh…a case of Mickey’s Big Mouths was always dangerous once the malt liquor madness kicked in. Everything and everyone starts looking like a target.

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jadedlens00@reddit

Yes! This guy gets it. Steel Reserve/High Gravity was a later addition.

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BigOldBee@reddit

Colt 45

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Kahnza@reddit

And 2 Zigzags

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DukeSpaghetti@reddit

Baby that’s all we need

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paintedwoodpile@reddit

Double Malts killed me back in the day.

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applyheat@reddit

Works every time.

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1denirok5@reddit

Do you remember the 64oz plastic bottles

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Deathgripsugar@reddit

I remember OE had 64s, but you had to go to the sketch parts of town to pick them up

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1denirok5@reddit

When we got them we had to drive to another town.

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professorpicklechips@reddit

By the time you got the bottom they were warm af. After a NOZ balloon and 3 64s that was a great night after a football game in hs

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Kahnza@reddit

That's why I would only drink half, then put it in the freezer while I drink half of another one from the fridge. 😎

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instant_ramen_chef@reddit

Damn.. no. Thank God. 14yo me was barely making it through 3 grenades.

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1denirok5@reddit

Those were so.e crazy times. We would get bottles of everclear as well and make jungle juice.

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instant_ramen_chef@reddit

Jungle juice was for the flyer parties. It had everything in it. Plus a jug of red punch mix.

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iheardthemetalclank@reddit

Ah, good ol’ jungle juice. In college we had an annual winter formal. People got dressed up and went to a sort of dance but there was always a lot of pre-gaming. The real party was in the dorms.

My best friend and I stole a recycling bin and lined it with a (clean) garbage bag and made some insanely strong juice and invited everyone we knew into his very small dorm room to drink. There were no frat houses with common areas or anything.

Post-formal, we returned to his room and there was still a ton of jungle juice there that couldn’t go to waste. We may have played GameCube. I don’t know. I passed out on his floor in a shirt and tie and can still feel the carpet imprint on my face.

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1denirok5@reddit

Good ole days

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Rdubya291@reddit

Yeah, we did the hand grenades, too. Like $12 a case.

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ArtDecoModerne@reddit

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There’s definitely a hierarchy to it. Mickeys are only to be consumed in grenade form.

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

It is the more nostalgic way for sure. We regularly copped the 40’s out here in Cali too tho

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Charming-Insurance@reddit

I didn’t even know we had 40 Mickey’s here!

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Itchy-Noise341@reddit

This is the way

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thunderlips36@reddit

Colt 45 was the 40 oz to freedom around here and man was it awful

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jekyl42@reddit

My dive bar carriers the grenades, though they're usually called "big mouths" around here.

They aren't very popular - I've maybe sold 5 in the year I've worked there - but we do restock them every so often.

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necronomitodd@reddit

Ahhhhh, back when I had a 40, and a pocket to put it in.

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chawrawbeef@reddit

Don’t think I ever had a Mickey’s, but we drank plenty of Olde E and St. Ides. Also Hurricane, which I haven’t seen anyone mention here yet.

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RobMcGroarty@reddit

Hurricanes were the choice for a chill weeknight. The corner store had them 3 for $5 back then.

St. Ides were for weekend blackouts.

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hamburgler26@reddit

We used to make beer bongs for these out of plastic tubing from Home Depot that attached to the mouth and let you really slam them. Terrible decision every time.

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Fillmore80@reddit

Wasn't he just bitching for them to unblock the straight? Is this twilight zone?

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screenrecycler@reddit

I can still taste the bitter regret

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BigODetroit@reddit

I was more of a, “jump on a grenade” with a Camo guy. My friends and I used to drink this stuff called, Wild Cat, but it just made us angry and wanting to fight each other.

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MichaelFusion44@reddit

My late teens and early 20’s saw a lot of those

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grunkle_dan78@reddit

ii used to love the mickeys grenades. we'd chug em and chuck em, usually into the fire pit. our favorite fire pit on the side of the mountain ended up with a couple hundred pound blob of melted glass from that practice.

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nirreskeya@reddit

I only know of these from Frank's Wild Years on Swordfishtrombones.

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djoddible@reddit

Do they still have messages or puzzles on the inside of the cap? Or am I thinking of some other malted beverage?

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Thick_Book_6233@reddit

Luh mickeys dawg

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A_Thirsty_Pagan@reddit

The grenades were my drink of choice for many high school parties. The caps were fun to read.

For 40oz, I distinctly remember Red Bull malt liquor. I don't remember ever finishing one before it got warm.

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C-Redd-it@reddit

I can taste this picture.

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ZmanEman333@reddit

I can smell that warm last few sips 🤢

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SpeedWobblenoob@reddit

I don’t know how I even finished one of these back in the day 😂🤣. By the end it was so warm and already tasted like death. Good times lol.

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

That’s when you pour some cold orange juice in for the brass monkey

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SpeedWobblenoob@reddit

Haha oh man 😂. I never drank enough of them to do that, but is that really what a brass monkey is? OJ and mickeys? I might have just TIL’d lol.

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

According to Google:

Ingredients (Beastie Boys/Malt Liquor): A mixture of malt liquor and orange juice, often referred to as a "poor man's mimosa".

We definitely did that back in the day. Not sure how we knew then

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Deathgripsugar@reddit

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thisbroadreadsbooks@reddit

Mickeys grenades were my jam too.

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PathosEatsLogos@reddit

Ah fine malt liquor… As in, do you have any beer? No? … Fine, Malt Liquor.

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Big_Gassy_Possum@reddit

Tastes like freshman year.

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Weak_Radish966@reddit

I loved the six packs of “grenades”. Definitely a better malt liquor.

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Dog_Baseball@reddit

Yes! Big-mouth caps!

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GreenHairyMartian@reddit

Man, those big mouth cans were awesome.

We used to go off-roading and camping in the Mojave desert, and we would take those suckers, drink the beer, fill them with gasoline, put the Caps back on, and then put them in the hot side of a nice bonfire. Gasoline would heat up enough to the point where it would start boiling and increasing pressure inside the bottle, but nothing would happen until enough pressure built up to blow the cap off the bottle. And when that happened, the pressurized gasoline would instantly vaporize and shoot a fireball about 30 ft into the air. A homemade BLEVE (boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion).

Good times. Only had to drive someone to the hospital once. And they healed just fine!

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Dog_Baseball@reddit

Holy shit

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Bourbon-No-Ice@reddit

They still make them. I occasionally get them.

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

Yea. We definitely consumed those too

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GreedyComedian1377@reddit

Had some Mickeys nights. Silver Thunder 40s was our shit. When I was 16/17 they were 99 cents! Utah! Get me 2!

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Bbadmerc99@reddit

I thought it said pine malt liquor…imagine

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UraniumRocker@reddit

I was a steel reserve guy.

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sexwiththebabysitter@reddit

No wide mouth?

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Verum2020@reddit

🤔 Worked with a fine young man who got the Mickey's bee tat. IT guy at Avanti.

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ONE1-ZERO@reddit

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Snooch_Nooch@reddit

This is the goat

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t00_much_caffeine@reddit

This was my beer of choice as a delinquent youth. Those last few sips…kinda warm, kinda flat 🤢

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Honest_City_3512@reddit

I’m more of a 64oz kid. Piss warm by the time you finished it!

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Glop1701d@reddit

Didn’t know they still made this

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BluDragn77@reddit

We drank Mickeys in the small bottles, Colt 45 in the double deuce 22oz and for 40’s it was either Old E or St Ides

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LiminalSapien@reddit

POUR YOUR 40 OUT

GUZZLE IT

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According-Talk-5194@reddit

I remember St. Ides, OE, Molson XXX but if you really wanted to get fucked up you drank Lucky Force 10.

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ArtDecoModerne@reddit

Us Canadian degenerates also had this in rotation…

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JPMoney81@reddit

Ooh I did Edward 40 hands with Max Ice. My night did not go well.

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Juxta25@reddit

These were a plague in my area. 4 of these 500ml cans was plenty to fuck you up.

I believe this brand even does a 12/13% one as well.

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

Degeneration X unite

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dvoecks@reddit

I used to keep all my change in one of the big mouth 40s.

My freshman year roommate had a tattoo of the Mickey's bee... Different strokes, but I would certainly have covered that up by now. Who knows... He probably added the Bud Ice penguin.

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zaggytiddies@reddit

Oh how I waited out front of Alvin’s bar for some one to buy me a Mickey’s 40. Those were the days

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Admirable_Bus5827@reddit

I have a hang over by just looking at the picture.

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Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit

I get a sixer of the wide mouths aka glass grenades once every 4 years ago, but a 40 is overdoing it

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OasisHomeostasis@reddit

To paraphrase Ordell Robbie:\ If you absolutely postively have to puke on everything in the room... accept no substitute.

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bowleggedgrump@reddit

Xennial? Those have been around long before xennials

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thatguy420417@reddit

Mickeys grenades in a bathtub full of ice

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JTGphotogfan@reddit

Aussie here what is malt liquor is it beer or something else entirely

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RelevantNothing4653@reddit

The brands my friends preferred were Colt 45 or Olde English

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goddamn_leeteracola@reddit

I was more of an olde English guy

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Material-Praline7100@reddit

The die I found out that it wasn’t green oh my

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Donkeh101@reddit

This disgusting thing was our cheap cheap bottle of cheap to drink in the park. Absolutely feral. Not liquor. “Sparkling vomit”. - Australia.

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

I have never seen these. My god it looks awful by the bottle alone

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Donkeh101@reddit

They looked worse 25+ years ago. I think they cost around $2.50 at the time - wild guess work. I always threw up having them (one!) but never learned my lesson. :)

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Helo7606@reddit

I was more of a St.Ides and Colt 45 guy myself.

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SubBass49Tees@reddit

My hockey team when I played in Juniors division was the Hornets. We had the Mickeys Hornet on our jerseys. Red & black New Jersey Devils style jersey. Looked badass.

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Bigfan78@reddit

Classic!

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Ok-Team9737@reddit

Get stung my dude.

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Spartan04@reddit

This brings back memories though not because I drank Mickeys. In college I was in a D&D group that would sometimes meet at my apartment (my roommates also played) and one guy would usually bring a couple 40s of Mickeys. So in my mind Mickeys always reminds me of that guy and playing D&D in college.

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Sempophai@reddit

I've always been curious about malt liquor, but have only heard bad things.

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

Original marketing of malt liquor in the 1950s-1960s aimed at a middle-class audience, promoting it as a sophisticated, high-ABV alternative to beer, often branded with WASPy names like "Country Club". Early campaigns used themes of "champagne on a beer budget" (e.g., Champale) to suggest luxury.

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Sempophai@reddit

The only option I've seen anywhere in Australia is nearly 30 bucks for one 40 ounce bottle, which I suspect is a bit pricey.

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Olelander@reddit

My one and only arrest was a minor consumption arrest at age 17 after drinking a shit ton of the Mickey’s “hand grenades”

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

Good (bad) times! We live and learn!

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hyzerKite@reddit

NC, we loved those grenades here. We were forty connoisseurs around 97/98. We got in good with a gas station guy who loved us for buying cases of 40s at a time for parties He let us order from a vendor catalog or some shit, so we got exotic with it Double Malt Colt 45 was absolute ass tasting but would literally try and kill you with one bottle. I think, but am not certain, Double Malt was a rebrand of a legendary Power Master version of Colt 45. It was banned immediately after release, so I heard. Maybe it was just weak enough to pass the poison test, idk. Now,the Interwebs actually kind of backs it up, or is repeating the same lie about Power Master. Either way, we had a 40 Olympics in 98, King Cobra won gold, naturally. Mickeys just made everybody jump.

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_Face@reddit

Steel reserve was our choice.

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thegholahayt@reddit

Is that still around?

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

Steel reserve wasn’t too shabby either!

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burnafter3ading@reddit

I used to love it with salted herring (which was meant to be soaked before actually eating)

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fckthisshii@reddit

Schlitz malt Liquor. The original red bull.

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ThirstyHank@reddit

Just looking at this I burped in my throat

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Daylight-Silence@reddit

The only time I've ever bought Mickey's was for some ne'er-do-well teens outside of a 7-Eleven, at the moment I simultaneously realized that I was officially old but also now had the opportunity to be on the other end of "we need to find a cool old guy" transactions. The circle of life.

Anyway, OE for life

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sunstruck7@reddit (OP)

We drank OE too but this tastes better to me.

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Mail_Order_Lutefisk@reddit

Mickey’s is to Chateau Margaux as OE is to Thunderbird. OE is heinous.

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partial_to_dreamers@reddit

I just got a little nauseous looking at this

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wafair@reddit

“A” xennial

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Armageddon-666@reddit

I still drink mickeys to this day.

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Super_Fa_Q@reddit

Lots of great teenage memories...

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vincentrb79@reddit

The ice variants were crazy. 1% stronger but somehow smoother to drink. Mickeys ice. Bud ice. Ice 800 aka old e ice.

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Wactout@reddit

I still occasionally have one now and again for nostalgia.

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Gorkymalorki@reddit

Back in the 90s, there was a corner store by a music venue that always had some good local punk music, the store never carded anyone unless you were obviously a kid, so we would get a couple 40s of Mickey's and chug them in the alley before the show. I saw way too many of my friends puke after chugging two 40s in five minutes.

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