Quiz Time: You Think You Know Beer ?

[Wolfman]

Guess where these brews are made. This should be right up a few poster's alley. I batted .333 which is good for a baseball player but sucks for knowing where beer is brewed. Knock yourselves out.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=937&p=1

[R-Jack]

56%

Mayflower & Great Lakes were a gimmie.

I served Lagunitas IPA at my wedding.

If you can look hard enough you can figure out the location of Bells

I guessed on the last one.

[Terry in Crapchester]

4/9. Guessing on all.

Did get 12/12 right on this one, though.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

8/9. Missed Blue Point.

[Van]

As someone who's never even tried beer and has never heard of any of these brands, I thought it'd be interesting to see how I'd do on one of Wolfie's little quizzes when I'd be 100% guessing on every single question.

All I did was go by the name of each beer, trying to tie it to a particular region. When that option wasn't available, I basically asked myself, "Which town sounds more like a place Goobs or Mgo would likely go to just to get their shitface on?"

7/9!

I did better purely by imagining Goobs being drunk while watching hockey than I did on the baseball logos quiz!

[WolverineSteve]

6/9

The little factoid from Lionsgate about the puzzles on the caps reminded me of the caps on Falstaff back in the day. Wonder if it was theirs.

[MuchoBulls]

6 out of 9. Missed 1, 3, and 6.

RACK Blue Point Toasted Lager!!!

[Goober McTuber]

As someone who's never even tried beer and has never heard of any of these brands, I thought it'd be interesting to see how I'd do on one of Wolfie's little quizzes when I'd be 100% guessing on every single question.

All I did was go by the name of each beer, trying to tie it to a particular region. When that option wasn't available, I basically asked myself, "Which town sounds more like a place Goobs or Mgo would likely go to just to get their shitface on?"

7/9!

I did better purely by imagining Goobs being drunk while watching hockey than I did on the baseball logos quiz!

Fuck. I only got 7/9 myself. BTW, most of the people I know who drink craft beers do so in relative moderation.

[mvscal]

As someone who's never even tried beer

Not something to be proud of nancy boy. You allergic?

[Van]

I've never tried it so how would I know that I'm allergic to it?

In any case, no, it's nothing like that, and it's not a point of pride either, other than pride in keeping a promise to myself. I simply decided when I was a little kid that I would never try alcohol, smoking or any recreational drug. If that makes me a nancy boy, then so be it.

[King Crimson]

strong geographical bias. if you live in the upper midwest or middle eastern seaboard, 7-8/10 of those beers are from your neck of the woods. how many are east of the Mississippi? 2, 3? Colorado and Portland not represented in a micro quiz?

[smackaholic]

I didn't know we had any middle eastern seaboard trolls here. Mid-Atlantic maybe.

I was 6-9 and actually missed a few that were closest geographically. Anybody miss bell's? if you did, you've never read a beer post here before....or you're just a dumbass.

[King Crimson]

I didn't know we had any middle eastern seaboard trolls here. Mid-Atlantic maybe.

that's how those middle eastern types do, you don't even know about them until it's too late. sleeper cells and shit.

[Dinsdale]

The little factoid from Lionsgate about the puzzles on the caps reminded me of the caps on Falstaff back in the day. Wonder if it was theirs.

This got me wondering, as well.

A quicky websearch reveals that many beer companies put rebus puzzles under their caps -- Lone Star Beer, National Bohemian, Lucky Lager, Falstaff, Olympia, Rainier, Ballantine, Mickey's, Lionshead, and Narragansett.

It was memories of Lucky Lager that got me thinking about it. And damn, what putrid stuff that was, in the 11oz stubbies. When I was a young up-and-coming drunk, Lucky was in Vancouver, WA, right next to the I5 bridge. About the only redeeming quality that stuff had was we could buy it for $2.99 a case.

And if anyone remembers Generic Beer -- the plain white can with simply the name BEER on the label -- that was Lucky in a can.

Heck, the Vancouver brewery closed down about 25 years ago, and just thinking about it now is making me kind nauseated. But it's now part of AB/Bud/Inbev, and brewed by canadians, so I'm sure the modern version is nothing short of delightful.

Yup, back in the teen years, Lucky was definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel (probably literally). On the teen budget, it was all about Rainier (pronounced "ron-YAY"... like all French and shit). Shit, when I worked in Tacoma back then, a shorty (12 pack, I guess they don't call it a "shorty" in all regions) of 16 ouncers (I believe Rainier coined the term "pounders") could be had in the greater Seattle area for about $2.69.

Damn, used to go through that stuff by the truckload... good times.