Can a person get a Genny Cream Ale in Philly? It's a local beer from Rochester, NY.
It think it's even hard to get in the area that it's made any more. If it's even made any more. It's been a while for me to drink at all, but I used to drink that in my younger day. Some called it pee water, but it always did the trick for me.
Genny was available from New York down to Pennsylvania, and was popular in the blue collar type place...like the bar in Philly. In the 70's and 80's it was the cheap choice for high school students too. It wasn't too bad...not as horrific as "Black Label" ...now that was pee water!
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GCA is a staple blue collar beer here. My dad drank it when I was a kid along with Schlitz, PBR and Busch.
If I walk to 10 bars I can get a half (case chopped in half) of GCA at 9 out of 10 of them in my neighborhood. Usually about $9. PBR is usually $10 or $12.
Now, if you go to a bar and buy a PBR in the other parts of the city it's $7 a can. Hipsters.
Pabst is 7.00 a can? Yuk.
When I used to drink beer, Genny Cream Ale was always my favorite and couldn't understand why so many would put it down ... I think it was a local thing and it was more "cool" at that time to drink Coors (when we finally were able to get it) and Labatts.
I'm from Rochester, btw, as to why it caught my eye.
Could get it as far south as Long Island, so I see no reason it couldn't be found in Philly.
shareStationed in Rome, NY at the Air Force Base back in the eighties, GCA was all I ever drank. Should've owned stock. But, yeah, Genesee has been a main staple here in Pennsylvania for decades.
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You have my word as an inveterate cheat.
We sold boatloads of that swill in my family's general store near Killington ski area back in the 70's mostly to local ridge runners, flatlanders preferred Bud/Shlitz/Miller/Heinecken
shareI can get it in Atlanta.
shareIt's awful, don't waste the effort.
shareI live in syracuse new york and it is a dolla up the street. I love anything local, but I'm no connoisseur. I could totally see why somebody might not like it cuz it definitely does not taste like your standard beer. Love how it's in this movie.
share$7 a can for PBR? Where the hell in the city are you finding that price? Ive only seen it anywhere for half of that or maybe $4.50 at most. It's almost always the cheapest option anywhere. As for GCA, Ive come across what I believe might have been GCA a few weeks ago for the first time. Now that was the cheapest thing on the menu where I went, but I don't see it around everywhere.
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I can actually get it in Texas, and have from time to time. So I'm sure it's available there.
"I'm sorry that the pretzel fell out.I honestly don't know how long it was in my underpants."
It's pretty common in jersey, South Jersey is pretty much a philly suburb.
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