Around the Big Ten

[hack]

Cool! But how did the company know which bottles you'd open later in the night instead of earlier?

[Rob F]

Cool! But how did the company know which bottles you'd open later in the night instead of earlier?

think about it...

[hack]

I bet they didn't think about it, but instead adopted a trial-and-error approach to figure out how to best predict this. I will initiate my own trial-and-error approach this evening and will report back to the group later with my findings.

[*JD*]

Don't knock good ol' FallFlat Beer---they had the best bottle caps in the beer business. Remember the picture puzzles under each cap?--- you got to test your alcohol-diminished brain cells against those of your friends to see who could solve the "Concentration" Game Show style picture. The more you and your buddies drank, the more challenging the clues...

Lone Star still does the rebus thing. I think Ballantine did the same thing back in the day.

I used to have both a beer can and a bottle cap collection when I was around 8 or 9 years old. I'd ask my dad to buy all kinds of different beer. I'm pretty sure he wasn't a big drinker but he did like the occasional beer. I think it was nice of him to humor me.

[*JD*]

Speaking of beer cans, I took this photo in a bar in Brooklyn a few weeks ago. Their whole wall was like this:



I was kind of working at the time so I didn't get to help them start on another wall.

[WingsFan]

lol I see 2 Black Labels, my Dad used to drink that once in a while.

[madootra]

I have a room in my house that has three walls like that. I'll try and remember to take a pic when I'm home this summer.

[Mike]

There's a can of Tab in there.

[THE_WIZARD_]

I like beer. It makes me a jolly good fellow.

[Paul L]

There's a can of Tab in there.

and a Pepsi, in the lower right.

I smell a rat.

[Rob F]

Speaking of beer cans, I took this photo in a bar in Brooklyn a few weeks ago. Their whole wall was like this:



I was kind of working at the time so I didn't get to help them start on another wall.

What? No Olde Frothingslosh? (you know, "The Pale, Stale Ale with the Foam on the Bottom")

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://old.post-gazette.com/images/20000529JBMarsha0529M.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.post-gazette.com/obituaries/20000529marsha2.asp&h=368&w=230&sz=28&tbnid=m6CeXhKI6zj9TM:&tbnh=99&tbnw=62&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dolde%2Bfrothingslosh%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=olde+frothingslosh&docid=4FCeCNUMf1nVDM&sa=X&ei=KzGfT9umAYevgwf_kKX1DQ&ved=0CEwQ9QEwAg&dur=4759

[*JD*]

Maybe it's just all cans from around 1982? There's some generic beer cans there too.

[Rob F]

Yeah, I noticed those "generic" beers. Unbranded beer--- I think Meijer even carried those for a while back then---did anyone ever buy those? Eventually, the beer companies realized they could re-package that generic beer and bamboozle people into buying it by slapping BudLight labels on them.

[*JD*]

Nike comes out with Pro Combat jerseys for Indiana and Iowa.

http://www.blackheartgoldpants.com/section/batshit-insanity

[hack]

The helmet for the Hoosiers is friggin brilliant. Took me a few minutes though...