The Hudepohl name (and many other legendary Cincinnati beers of the past) now belongs to Christian Moerlein Brewing. The owner isn't above trying to bully other local craft brewers around, but he has my gratitude for resurrecting some fantastic beers of long ago, and staying as true as possible to the original recipes.
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Lone Star...typical "cheap" beer, and that's not a knock - every city/state has theirs. Around here, it was Hudy, where my wife grew up, it was Genesee ("Genny Cream Ale!"), and when I lived in Minnesota, it was Grain Belt.
Shiner - I've had every one of those in that pic (except for the light beer), and several others. We can get it here pretty easily, and I always like it. I just gave my neighbor a Shiner Bock that I had sitting in my fridge this morning, for his birthday.
Yup. Being a German city, most of Cincy's brewers put out an annual schwarzbier (black beer), so it's a very familiar style here, and I thought Shiner's was quite nice.
Bocks show up around here in January or so, but I think "official" bock time is closer to March, like Winter->Spring. The SB I gave our neighbor was way back in the fridge, and I missed it earlier this year, so that went into his birthday bundle of three beers. He likes German beer, so I gave him a trio, and that last bock was included.
I can get that here on draft as well (and in the bottle).
