This series of posts is dedicated to the many, many six packs, pony kegs and pints that have sauntered into my life at one point or another.

While I stand by my contempt for the portion of hipster culture that has adopted Pabst Blue Ribbon as a preferred beer, largely, I believe, thanks to the seed planted nearly thirty years ago by a movie character who may not be the best role model, I must confess that I have occasionally made my beverage choices on the basic of favorite fragments of pop culture. The reason I have drank Mickey’s over the years–maybe the only reason I’ve drank Mickey’s–is because of its memorable prominence in the Ed Haynes song “Splash.” Indeed, I can’t even look at the image above without automatically thinking, “Mickey’s Big Mouth used to be my beer,” a lyric from the song. In my recollection, weirdly enough, I’ve almost always purchased my bottles of Mickey’s from the sad beer coolers of gas station convenience stores, although I suppose its status as a malt liquor is somewhat in keeping with that. So even if that memory of exclusivity of purchasing location is incorrect, I’m happy to preserve the historical flaw.

Previously…
—Point Special
—21st Amendment Bitter American
—Abita Restoration Pale Ale
—Rolling Rock
—Skull Splitter
—Foster’s
—Highland Thunderstruck Coffee Porter
—Red Stripe
—Rhinelander Bock
—Samuel Adams Boston Lager
—New Glarus Brewing Company Wisconsin Belgian Red
—ABA Hoppy Saison
—Hamm’s
—Abita Strawberry Harvest Lager
—Three Floyds Apocalypse Cow
—French Broad Brewing Gateway Kolsch
—Big Boss Brewing “High Monkey”
—Stevens Point Brewery Whole Hog Pumpkin Ale
—The Native Brewing Company The Eleven Brown Ale
—Labatt Blue
—Smuttynose Winter Ale
—Point Beyond the Pale IPA
—Guinness
—Capital Brewery Supper Club
—Highland Brewing 20th Anniversary Scotch Ale