Some Beer History from my area.

[berryman]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesee_Brewing_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Koch_Brewery

[berryman]

No More Koch Brewery in Dunkirk NY. It closed in mid 80's. I was a mechanic at a trucking company that hauled a lot of beer in the mid 70's, I also could be a local driver if no over the road drivers were available. I hauled stuff in and out of there with a tractor trailer. I was always amazed you could sit in the waiting room while the truck was loaded or unloaded and they would give you all the beer you wanted. I always tried to refrain and maybe had 0ne or two and I was young but knew I had to drive that big rig 10 miles back to the shop. Things like that just don't happen anymore and prolly a good thing.

[BlackDuck]

There’s a lot of things that we could do “back in the day” that would be considered felonies today!!! Probably a good thing, but those days sure were fun!!!


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[bpgreen]

I was going to start another thread for this, but since the article mentioned Genesee, I thought it might belong here.

What about bad beer?

[FedoraDave]

Hey, I remember Koch's from when I was at SUNY Fredonia in the late 70s/early 80s. In fact, this thread put me in mind of those days, when the local supermarket would take all the odd beers on Friday and make mixer/sixers that they'd sell on the cheap. They really catered to the college community because they'd let you buy individual cans and bottles. Hence the mixer/sixers for the weekend. I remember sitting around the table playing cards or backgammon with my friends in our rented apartment and drinking cheap beer all weekend. Koch, Hamm's, Genny, Iron City. If we found a couple of bottles of Miller, we thought we'd struck gold!

[brewnewb]

Hey, I remember Koch's from when I was at SUNY Fredonia in the late 70s/early 80s. In fact, this thread put me in mind of those days, when the local supermarket would take all the odd beers on Friday and make mixer/sixers that they'd sell on the cheap. They really catered to the college community because they'd let you buy individual cans and bottles. Hence the mixer/sixers for the weekend. I remember sitting around the table playing cards or backgammon with my friends in our rented apartment and drinking cheap beer all weekend. Koch, Hamm's, Genny, Iron City. If we found a couple of bottles of Miller, we thought we'd struck gold!

Great thread here. My wife is a SUNY Fredonia Alum. We got married in Dunkirk, NY. My Father in Law's Family owned Czysz's Tavern on Courtney St.

[berryman]

FDave and brewnewb, Just drove past SUNY Fredonia on Central Ave. today on our way back from Buffalo. Fredonia is about 10 mile from me.