What were you drinking in the 90s (i.e. before hops got big)?

BMC galore.
Newcastle
Red stripe
Sweet Georgia Brown
Blackhook
Sam Smith Taddy Porter & Imp Stout & Nut Brown
(Granted this is early 2000's.) but this was before I got into IPAs.

 

Sam Adams Boston Lager
Sam Adams Seasonals
Guinness Stout
Rolling Rock
Yuengling
Molson Golden
Molson XXX
Hacker Pschorr Weisse
And yes, Coors Light.......

 

Schlafly Pale Ale
Spaten Optimator
Pete's Wicked Ale
Goose Island IPA and Honkers Ale
Bass Ale
Sam Adams Ale

 

Newman's Albany Ale and Winter Ale, from the refillable plastic gallon cubes. Also (halfway across the country) Summit Pale Ale and Porter and the newly-introduced specialty lineup from Schell. Oh, sorry, that's what I was drinking in the 1980s.

 

I lived in Houston for half the decade
I drank a lot of St Arnold's Amber ale, the brown and white occasionally.
Shiner bock
Celis white and grand cru
Pete's wicked
Anchor Steam and Liberty ale
When I moved back to NH it was
Oregon pale ale
Nutfield stuff
Katahdin stuff
Mississippi mud
Guinness

 

In Denver in the 90s...

1. Red Hook ESB
2. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
3. Fuller's ESB
4. Bridgeport IPA--my gateway "hoppy" beer believe it or not. This weaned me from SNPA, Fullers & Red Hook, in about 1992, but it wasn't everywhere I drank.
5. Avery 14er ESB, Avery IPA (I think, by the late 90s, I was into this; for sure the ESB though)
6. Odell's Cutthroat Pale Ale, thanks to "Odells Mark" aka Mark Bangert, brewery rep and frequent customer at Old Chicago Colorado Boulevard, my local throughout the 90s. (Now he's w/ Beverage Distributors I believe), and later 5 Barrel but I believe in the 90s Odell's pale was the Cutthroat...also drank their IPA which I can't remember if it was just "IPA" as it is now; think so.
7. Great Divide Denver Pale Ale, at Choppers Sports Grill in the Cherry Creek neighborhood, near my office...It's been awhile sins I've been in but I think it's STILL on tap there, I would say for at least 15 years now; could be 18. I think the owner of GD made that sale, probably been awhile since Brian Dunn made an appearance at a sports bar to get a handle...

 

Liberty Ale from Anchor steam, an american classic and my first love circa 1991.

 

This is a pretty good representation of what I was drinking in the 1990s. The XXX and Labatt's Genuine Draft were duty free purchases. We'd always pick up cases on our way back from Toronto.

 

Not even sure.I know I once in a while have Anchor or Liberty but even now it's a bit pricey.I never really got into Pete's but it seems like there was some "Wickeder" just can't recall.And I never got into Sam Adams either.I remember trying Pyramid and trying Samuel Smith's in the 80"s.So all I can say for sure is one of my old stand bys then and now is Foster's.But I was drinking a lot of Vodka & 7up then too.

 

Sam Adams Honey Porter and Boston Lager
Boulevard Pale Ale and Wheat
Budweiser and Rolling Rock
Youngs Dirty Dicks and Double Chocolate Stout
Shiner Bock

 

I was still drinking Ecto Cooler in the 90s. I can only imagine how different the craft beer landscape looked back then.

 

There was a considerable difference between what I was drinking in the early 1990s and the wider range of choices available by the late '90s.
Early '90s it was primarily:
Summit (Great Northern Porter, EPA and later the IPA)
Bert Grant's (IPA)
SNPA
Mackeson XXX
Samuel Smith's (probably mostly Taddy Porter IIRC)
I'm sure several others I'm forgetting
When Bell's Two Hearted became available I was all over that

 

Pete's Wicked Ale
Sam Adams Honey Porter
Samuel Smith's Taddy Porter
Guinness
Murphy's Irish Stout

 

Zima

 

Samuel smiths
Saranac
Sierra nevada
Old peculiar
Murphys irish stout
Guinness
Bass
Great lakes

 

When I first turned 21 and was working at a liquor store in 1997, I remember the following beers flying off the shelves:

Pete's Wicked Summer Brew and Strawberry Blond
SNPA
Blue Moon Nut Brown (I really liked that one)
Oregon Raspberry Wheat (couldn't keep it on the shelves)
Catamount anything
Mackeson XXX Stout
Long Trail Ale
Sam Adams Octoberfest
Sam Smith anything
Sam Adams Triple Bock

These are the ones I can remember off the top of my head.

I used to like making black and tans with Guinness and Pete's Summer.....weird.

 

God. This thread makes me feel old. Very very old.

 

I was born in 78'

Mostly Capn' Morgan and coke mixers because my vagina hurt every time I tried beer... Weed substitute was more so my thing back then...

 

I was on Phish and Dead tour through much of the 90's so had the benefit of drinking a lot of good beer from a lot of good cities. I remember being crazy for new Belgium, and when I rediscovered it years later being pretty disappointed. Also, a lot of
Bells
Rogue
Longtrail
Magic Hat
Sammy Smith bombers
Mississippi Mud

 

Fuller's ESB
Sam Smiths
Newcastle
Guinness
Negra Modelo
Redhook ESB
Spaten
Hacker-Pschorr