What are some beers that are still being made but you haven’t had one in over 20 years?

I used to buy a sixer of red stripe and grab a box of Bailey's chicken fingers and superior texas toast, before the franchise lost the bloody Baton Rouge Chicken Finger War. I have a TED talk on why Cane's is Cane's now, while Bailey's is a fond memory - it's because of the DUI checkpoint they'd set up on Burbank. To successfully run the gauntlet of Burbank to get chicken fingers and return home unscathed probably made the food taste better. I do not suggest that our chicken finger billionaire had any hand in the law enforcement action, with the goal of coming out of The Late Unpleasantness victorious. It's a butterfly effect deal, that's all I'm saying.

Red Hook anything.

All the varieties of Sammy Smiths.

When I first started going to jam band shows in the early 90s, these were being sold everywhere in the lot scene, especially the Oatmeal Stouts. It was one of my first experiences with "microbrews" (even though it's hardly a microbrew), and we drank them often.

I haven't had one in at least 20 years, though. No clue if they're actually any good as, while I still drink a lot of craft beer, I don't ever really drink stouts.

Castle

I haven’t had a michelob in the brown bottle in way over 20 years. Used to drink the shite out of those

Looks like they still make the beer but not the cool bottles

Foster’s
It’s Australian for beer

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We knew a guy that worked there and he would drop a ton of fingers in a brown paper bag and just give them to us.

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Had an architecture classmate that worked at Bailey's and would always hook us up.

Ironically he ended up working at Raising Canes corporate for a good while later.

As for the OP, I did Around the World at The Chimes several times back when it was all sorts of imports.. haven't touched many of those brands since. Xinghu, Oranjeboon, Golden Pheasant, etc.

Icehouse