I never knew it to exist on the West Coast. Would have been before my time if it did.
If I recall correctly, it was big for a while in the 70s and early 80s. Not that I ever drank it.
And my absolute favourite Holsten Export.
Itās true, 5% is strong for us.
That 8%+ beer is what we refer to as, āThe trampās choice.ā
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Drink gin from a bottle on a park bench and youāre a tramp. Stick it in a fancy glass with an olive and youāre James Bond.
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Thunderbird is what we drink between 12 and 16 years old.
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Thatās some pretty strong hooch for a 12-year-old. 
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If its convenient (not a rush) can you share your link? Its $180~220 per carton here. Yours is still obscenely expensive in my opinion (oat milkā¦), but me and the wife do really like it and try to avoid facry farmed stuff if wecan swing it. Yoes is a decent amount cheaper 
i could blow through 3 a day easily if price wasnt a consideration.
To be fair, it would be one bottle shared between about ten of us. 
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Good call on the āfortified wine.ā Night Train was briefly cool with my friends in our teens because of the GnR song about it. Also because it was less than $2 for a bottle that could get 2-3 of us drunk.
āMalt liquorā (7-9% ABV cheap beer) is also something we associate with drunkard violent men in the US. Red Horse from Philippines is the only Asian equivalent I can think of. Not sure if this exists in Europe, but it must.
Stella really is just a normal-strength flavorless beer for young women and others who donāt like the taste of real beer. Like Bud, Corona, or Heineken, but in a pretty glass. Perhaps their marketing approach in the US was a direct result of their image in the UK.
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Where Iām from, itās called āghetto champagne.ā The preferred tipple of gang bangers and low-level drug dealers.
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Sure, thereās that, but to be fair itās equally popular with regular old white trash.
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Ha, sounds like a really different culture. I can probably count on one hand the times Iāve seen white people drink it. Itās rot-gut vodka for white trash in the Bay Area.
yeah no problem. sometimes shopee, sometimes momo, i find whatever is cheapest. costs a little more if you want to mix and match (the chocolate one is pretty good too). just found this on a quick search.
and yeah, still way too expensive unfortunately 
hot damn thatās a url if iāve ever seen one.
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omg night train my arch nemesis. havenāt thought about this beast in agesā¦
that and jugs of carlo rossi from the grocery store.
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The line āIām a mean machine, Iām drinking gasolineā is an accurate descriptor of the taste.
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nah. you drink it to the label and fill it up with oj and you have yourself a brass monkey. a totally respectable drink.
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In rural and small town Midwest, the stronger and cheaper the beer, the better. But sure, cheap wine and liquor are always on the table too.
Edit: Adam Carolla, who grew up in the San Fernando Valley in L.A., talks about Mickeyās (malt liquor) being the cheap drink of choice for his poor and middle class white friends as teenagers, so even on the coasts I donāt itās just a gangbanger thing.
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Can someone remind me how we got from voting on convenience stores in Taiwan to this array of stomach churning cheap booze? 
Guy
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