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Indeed they do.

I guess mine is a knock off called houdini

obviously could cause problems with aged corks

bottles don't collect here for extended periods

When I was doing wine classes, I'd be serving 6-12 bottles per class.  Folks were amazing how fast I could pull the cork (usually, on occasion one would be problematic).

I was musing about being in college and a bar near campus had "Dark Schlitz", which I liked, and considered "elite" beer, or something.  It was unusual.  We didn't have much else, Coors was ultra rare and a major treat even though I thought it tasted like water.

Stroh was a beer that came about when I was in school that was weird, said to be "Fire Brewed".  The cheap beers came out during that time also, Red White and Blue was the cheap version of PBR, Busch of course, Milwaukee's Best was a beer - Miller?  What were the other beers out in the 1970s?

yup, remember the Coors phenom back in the day - of course the Colorado state line wasn't far before the national 55mph speed limit

the other rare beer that made it to Iowa was Olympia

My grandmother made me one of these..................

I remember "Dark Schlitz."  I thought it was better than the regular stuff.

Lots of memories from college drinking Mickey's Big Mouth.  Well, partial, fuzzy memories, anyway.

There was a bar in Athens called the B&L Warehouse, because that's what it was.  It had two stages at each end and one band would set up whilst another was playing.  They had two long bars down the other two sides, and just some rickety chairs and a few tables in the middle.  Tuesday night was quarter beer night.  I remember some of the bands they had were pretty good, I don't know if I ever heard WSP or REM or the B52s though.

I lived in an off campus dorm that would have "keggers" every so often, all the beer you could drink if you had the ID showing you were a resident.  I was underage at first.  I got fairly sloshed one night as I recall and ended up passed out in some gals' room.  I woke up the next morning, she was asleep, I was on the floor, nothing happened, so I went down to my room to try and recover.

The cafeteria ladies would see me walking in and they'd start my breakfast every morning, 4 eggs over light with grits and toast, it would about be ready by the time I got OJ and coffee.  They were nice ladies.

College life was pretty insane now that I look back on it.