I got's to know [rolleyes]

it takes 33 of 'em to equal a decent beer?  [;)]

On a scale of 1 to 10, amoung domestic beer, the Rock scores a 33.
DanM

ALright, here's a link to their web site...but you need to be 21....you guys ARE 21..right?

[url]www.rollingrock.com[/url]

I went to school in PA and the story I heard was when the beer first came out the label was proofed (read for grammar, etc.) and contained 33 words, so the proof person wrote that on the label for some reason and it got included as a mistake and it's stayed there since.

Milan

Why do they charge an Import price for the domestic beer.

Here is a twist, look up "freemason" on the web

Prices must vary, here in Virginia the stuff is dirt cheap. Here they come in longneck bottles but I remember years ago they used to come in small little 7 oz? bottle. We used to call those 'green grenades'....ECS

AIMLESS is right,and after 33 of them you will piss like a race horse!

 Bob [8D]

It comes from Pennsylvania. That's sort of like importing it isn't it? All I know is that among my friends on your 33rd birthday you must drink Rolling Rock.

When I first started drinking beer I could down Rolling Rock no problem, bottle after bottle of the stuff.


I haven't touched the stuff in over 4 years though cause it seems to taste AWFUL to me now.   I really don't think my tastes have changed that drastically and it really used to be one of my favorite beers, I just think somewhere along the line they changed the way they brew the stuff even if it was slight.


Now, as best as I can describe it, Rolling Rock tastes like "burnt" if it were an official flavor and was possible to put it into a bottle.


RollingRock=BurntBeer

This is interesting if my memory is correct.

Back in the sixties the main beer of South Vietnam was called Bam de Bam.  Any Vietnam vet knows what I'm talking about (if I spelled it correctly).  It tasted like shit but it got you drunk quickly.  The interesting thing is that Bam de Bam is Vietnamese for 33!

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"Mr. Tito's family owned Latrobe from the end of Prohibition until the company was sold to an outfit in Connecticut in 1985. After some prompting, he told me the sordid truth.

Based on some old notes and discussions with family members now dead, Mr. Tito believes that putting the 33 on the label was nothing more or less than a horrible accident. It happened like this:

When the Titos decided to introduce the Rolling Rock brand around 1939, they couldn't agree on a slogan for the back of the bottle. Some favored a long one, some a short one. At length somebody came up with the 33-word beauty quoted above, and to indicate its modest length, scribbled a big "33" on it.

More argument ensued, until finally somebody said, dadgummit, boys, let's just use this one and be done with it, and sent the 33-word version off to the bottle maker.

Unfortunately, no one realized that the big 33 wasn't supposed to be part of the design until 50 jillion returnable bottles had been made up with the errant label painted permanently on their backsides. (I suppose this bespeaks a certain inattentiveness on the part of the Tito family, but I am telling you this story just as it was told to me.)

This being the Depression and all, the Titos were in no position to throw out a lot of perfectly good bottles. So they decided to make the best of things by concocting a yarn about how the 33 stood for the year Prohibition was repealed.

In retrospect, this was a stroke of marketing genius. Next to cereal boxes, beer labels are probably the most thoroughly scrutinized artifacts in all of civilization, owing to the propensity of beer drinkers to stare morosely at them at three o'clock in the morning.

The Rolling Rock "33" has baffled beer lovers for generations, and accordingly has become the stuff of barroom legend. I have letters claiming that the number has something to do with a satanic ritual, that it was the age of Christ when he died, even that it signifies the number of glass-lined tanks in the Latrobe plant. "

Jonathan

I got this one.

When Rolling Rock was first going to be bottled and sold, they got their labels printed by a company that charged by the word. The guys sat down and came up with that "From the glass lined vats of old Latrobe..." statement for the bottle, and wrote it all down on a piece of paper. Then they counted up the words: 33 words, and wrote that number down on the sheet of paper that ended up getting sent to the printer. The "33" got put on the first run of bottles, and has been there ever since.

You have to know this stuff if you grow up and go to college in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

....from the glass lined tanks in ole' Latrobe we tender....blah blah blah.....

mer322, duh..... 223REM....too many BBR's

Rolling Rock Beer:
Death In A Tall Green Bottle.

Jay
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The "33" actually has two meanings. First, if you try to drink it at any temperature above 33F you will spit it out and buy a real beer. The second meaning is for the fact that after 33 tries they still couldn't make a beer worth drinking, since they ran out of R&D money the batch number 33 was given the honor of being labeled "The green death"

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Green Death is what people in the midwest call "Special Export" beer.  I always thought the "33" was for the year Prohibition ended (beer was allowed first).

GunLvr

I grew up mostly in Ohio and Rolling Rock was always reffered to as "the Green Death"

[beer]

Bau mi Bau?

Scott

Flash66-Yep.

I don't remember if the VN name was Bam de Bam, but I do recall that the label had a big (red?) "33" across it.

Ever drink Tiger Beer? It had a snarling tiger on the label. It did it's job well.

I think somewhere along the line, they changed to formula.  I lived in PA back in the 60s and drank it when it still came in thos 7oz "Pony Bottles."  It was a really good beer.  Had some here in TX a few years back, and it really tasted funky.  My tastes have changed somewhat, but not to that extent.

Wow, you're really refreshing my memories of rot gut beer.  You mean "Schmidt's of Philadelphia" wasn't really made there.  That was a really awful beer, as was Duke.  I don't think I've ever had P.O.C.  Did you make Old Reading as well?