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I'm missing the Grolsch beer bottles with the metal hinged flip-top cap. Does anyone sell those any more?
The beer was decent, but the washers make really good locks for guitar strap studs!

always had a couple of those in my dorm fridge filled with water for the middle of the night or early morning

back in the early 80's that was bottled water

I think I have one in the basement gathering dust

There a few New England/Juicy IPAs I like.  But I've never found a single West Coast IPA that I thought was even drinkable.

I've tried plenty.  No need to torture myself any further.

There are just WAY too many great beers available locally now, to bother with stuff you don't like.  I just about never drink a beer from more than 150 miles away, from wherever I am.  If I'm traveling, I drink the local stuff.  If I'm at home, I drink the local stuff.  

I'll make exceptions for European imports of European styles, but even then, I'm still drinking the local version of that style 90% of the time.  Of course part of that is because I have two local breweries that make the absolutely best European styled beers available in the USA, so there is that.

Something I’ve been meaning to ask you fellow beer drinkers. I’ve noticed since my early 40’s that certain types of beer will give me a terrible headache. It didn’t used to happen when I was younger. Bud light was my drink of choice up through my 20s and probably early 30’s. Somewhere along the line, for reasons I can’t recall, I switched to Miller light. Occasionally Coors light. I noticed that if I drank any bud light at all I would get a terrible headache. 

There’s been a few instances over the last 5 or so years where I drank different beers and mixed drinks ( not getting stupid drunk or anything ) and went to bed and woke up with the most horrific headache 2-3 hours later. Like my head is pounding so hard that I’m on the verge of going to the ER. Taking headache medication of any kind usually fixes me up in about 30 minutes. 

I drink all types and brands of beer

no headaches

I do stay away from Miller Lite.  
Apparently, Bud Heavy drinkers and Miller Lite drinkers don't swap back and forth

I've had many folks tell me that tap beer or keg beer will give them headaches

not me

I prefer tap beer

There are a lot of unfounded "wine myths", and I'd guess beer myths as well.  One wine myth is about sulfites, there is some parts of it that can be true for someone hypersensitive to them (few are).  Most headaches are caused by alcohol metabolism, simple as that.  People go somewhere and drink something "different" and overdo it and blame the different thing.

I don't know if the HPLC today would show much difference between canned and glass contained beers.  There really shouldn't be much of anything, even back in the day.  Such reports can be adulterated, heh.