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Bud Light Platinum, then Rolling Rock, then champagne of beers!
Bud Light Platinum, then Rolling Rock, then champagne of beers!
When did Coors Banquet get stuck with the name Coors Banquet? It has always been Coors original or Coors gold until recently.
I actually dig Bud Light Lime, if I'm being honest.
In pop culture I'm guessing it started with the Sam Elliott narrated commercials
...No doubt a back-breaking, life-threatening workday ended with some serious feasting. Miners were largely immigrants, so they probably ate food typical of their homeland, Sarah says. Miners from Cornwall, England, might’ve packed pasties, for instance.
And what’s a feast — or banquet — without beer?
So when Clear Creek miners sat down to banquets large and small, Coors was there.
“Since Golden was the ‘Gateway to Mining,’ word of the beer’s taste and quality spread quickly from mining camp to mining camp,” Russ writes in his book. “Distribution was aided by Golden’s location on the Colorado Central Railroad, just north across Clear Creek from the brewery. Off the railcar, wagonloads of beer were pulled by mules to thirsty miners in the foothills.”
Some of that beer was delivered by Mr. Coors himself.
After the mining boom ended — and after 17 long, dry years of Prohibition in Colorado — Coors started using the name “Banquet” to toast the miners who were some of our very first customers. In 1937 Coors officially became “The Banquet Beer” … which sounds even better when a familiar voice says it:
I don't think there is any cheap beer I won't drink. I actually dig Bud Light Lime, if I'm being honest.