If anything were to take the place of PBR taps in town it would probably be one of the other brands in the pabst portfolio. More retro NW brands would be nice; rainier, olympia, etc...

I wouldn't mind seeing some of the schlitz 60's formula "gusto" in town either.

ha, well I stopped drinking so they're in for a major dip in sales...until I inevitably start again.

Rainier and Old German tallboys are already making inroads in the hipper dive bars around town. Schlitz is getting big in other parts of the country; I'd look for it to bump Pabst out of some places if one of the local distributors picks it up.

American-style Lagers are awful. I hope the entire genre eats a dick and dies in a fire.

I'm going to push for Old Style.
Or Old Milwaukee, which can be found still at some of the more refined markets around town.

@RB: Actually PBR is not union-made. They seriously dicked over their previous employees who were union by cutting the health benefits of the retirees and stuff. And pretty much no beer is "hardcore vegan" due to the use of isinglass as a fining agent.

I vote to bring back Blitz.

American macro beers like Pabst are Pilsners, a type of lager so named after the town in the Czech republic where they were developed.

App they weren't bad until after prohibition when the brewers started really thinning them out by adding rice (which gives them a dry finish).

Pabst and Schlitz used to be good and they even made a bock style beer (a dark, sweet, malty hi alcohol german lager).

Simpler Times!

I'm with Michelle. OLYmpia and not just cause I have 3 tall boyz sitting in my fridge and I am moving there next month (aaaaaaaand yes I know it is not made there anymore).BUTT because it doesn't have that shittay sugary after-taste of PB'er

My friends and I once went to Tube. ...still reading? (sorry if you're disappointed in me) and I thought, "hey, what the hell, when in Hipster Rome...." and ordered a Pabst. To which the bartender informed me that the don't carry it. Yes, the hipster bar is, apparently, the only place in Portland that DOESN'T sell the hipster beer.
...so I'd wager that whatever hipster beer Tube sells is going to be the hipster beer that everyone else sells, too.

Can we make Rainier happen again, please? Maybe it too will eventually be sold and move back to the Northwest where it belongs (right now it's brewed on contract in California).

dirigibleduck:

What I'd love more than anything is to see new "wild rainiers" commercials on TV.

Yes Ansel, at the Tube, PBR is passe. I believe when I was there last, they had Tecate(?)

Anyway, I find it hilarious that one mass-produced can of piss can go out of style while hipsters look for the next mass-produced piss that hasn't been "played out" yet. Old German? Seriously? What rock did that crawl out from under?

Mike, American macrobrews have little in common with Czech and German style pilsners. The old world brews are made entirely from malted barley, water, hops and yeast. American macros are made with a large percentage of adjunct sugars, like corn and rice in place of barley, since they are much cheaper. This drastically alters the flavor of the beer, requiring a separate class.

As for the next "hip" cheap beer, my vote's for Olympia.

dirigibleduck:

also, rainier DID just get bought. The brand is owned by pabst, although millercoors has been contract brewing it for them, just like Olympia.

Golden Anniversary Beer!

Graham:
I'm not sure where you learned that PBR is fined with isinglass, but that's mostly used with English-style ales, particularly cask-conditioned ones. Most large scale commercial breweries use either a centrifuge or some type of DE filtration to get the turbidity out of beer (for pre-filtering, you would find silica powders/gels are more common fining agents in this day and age). Vegans could argue that the calcified fossils that make up diatomaceous earth were once plankton of a sort, so that's pretty much the only consideration an animal-conscious PBR drinker has to worry about.
And I'm not sure why everyone isn't drinking more Session. Full Sail is the closest thing Oregon has to a union brewery, and their beer is a hell of a lot tastier than anything else mentioned above.

One more clarification (ha!) on DE filtration for beer:
Diatomaceous earth does not find its way into the beer you drink. The beer is sent through it at high speeds and the leftover yeast and trub-y bits become impaled on the spiky bone structures, letting the bright beer through. If any DE manages to get past whatever filter it's built upon, there are generally multiple filters down the line that catch these wayward diatoms. I personally don't see a conflict for beer-loving vegans, but you have to draw your own line somewhere.

yes, why isn't Sessions available on tap??? though i do love the cute stubby.
i wouldn't mind Rainier for a cheap beer.
what i would love though is National Bohemian (aka Natty Bo) that i had while in DC. way better than PBR, which really i only like b/c it's cheap and drinkable-to me- and i think the graphics are cute (i know, terribly reasons).

Yeungling's!

I feel like Clint Eastwood when I drink Olympia.

Javzor I am talking about pilsners a long time ago, not the crap we have today. I agree the stuff today is an insult to old-world pilsner.

As for corn being horrible many traditional english pale ales and bitters (not the american versions brewed here) use corn in place of some of the malt.

olympia for the west coast, Yuengling for the east, and old style for the middle. why can't we get old style on the west coast? it is full of love and takes me back to were i should be, chicago... past that, why don't the nw craft brewers make something to compete instead of a million "different" beers that all taste like willamette hop extract? i mean it's nice once in a while to have a beer that makes you drowsy but christ! at least switch it up with some other flavor of hops, or something WITHOUT HOPS!

RAINIER!