From the Land of Sky Blue Waters...

...comes the current hipster beer. Hamm's has taken the title from Pabst. Not that it really matters since Hamm's was purchased by Olympia Brewing Company which merged with Pabst in 1980. They later were acquired by Stroh's who was bought up by Miller that merged with South African Breweries to form SABMiller. You can drink your Hamm's or PBR or Oly and still be guaranteed that same great pissy taste that will give you a hangover and the shits.

The moral of the story? Hipsters still go through a lot of aspirin and toilet paper while still supporting a brewery made wealthy by apartheid. I hope you enjoy drinking black people!

In other Hamm's related news, a couple of friends came for a visit and Krys and I took them to another friend's annual Crawfish Boil party. Lots of crawfish. Lots of beer. At events such as this, I have grown accustomed to people grabbing a bottle of real beer, trying to twist off the cap, then asking around for a bottle opener. Typically I am the only one around with a bottle opener always on me. Before I carried a Swiss Army Knife I kept a bottle opener on my key chain.

My friend grabs a bottle, I start to instinctively reach for my pocket knife, when he grabs his key chain which has a bottle opener on it. Awesome.

We talk about being prepared and always having a bottle opener with you. (My personal opinion is that you should also carry a cork screw just in case.) I check out his bottle opener and discover it looks very much like the one I keep attached to my fridge by magnet.

Later that night we get home, compare, and discover we have two generations of the same bottle opener!



His was a 'going to college' gift from his father. Mine was salvaged from my grandfather's garage.

On the back of his shiny one is stamped: THE BEER REFRESHING

On the back of my tarnished antique it says: AMERICA's REFRESHING BEER

They are both from Hamm's. Neither of us drinks Hamm's.

We are both from the Land of Sky Blue Waters.