re: #44 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yunz wanna ‘nother Yuengling?

Yuengling is an eastern PA beer however. Yinzers is western PA. Iron City (Arn) or get out!

In the early 80s at Pitt the “local” beers were:
1. Iron City - brewed in Lawrenceville at the time. Have since moved upriver to Creighton.
2. Rolling Rock - brewed just to the east in Latrobe. Now brewed in New Jersey.
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By then Duquesne had gone out of business. Fraternity brother of mine collected beer stuff (in part due to his father having run a bar at one time) and thus had materials related to Duquesne Beer.

I recall “Mickey’s Big Mouth” as a shortish bottle with a very wide top with a sort of foil pull-off. Referred to as “Green Grenades”. Think that was from somewhere west or southwest and I associate it with West Virginia for some reason.

If you got west into Ohio you’d encounter stuff from Cincinnati like Little Kings.

If the fraternity had a keg on tap it was usually fairly cheap (and relatively bad) stuff like Schlitz, Strohs, or Pabst. The standard practice of a few of us would be to split a 6-pack of something better (usually Canadian) and then drink the stuff on tap once our taste buds had been deadened. Beer in the USA prior to the craft brew revolution was essentially a desert.