Today’s sampling pairs well with a memory, since it’s now defunct and can no longer be found (for now) in the United States: Olympia Beer.
You may have never had this before, and the version I had must’ve only been the reboot after Pabst purchased the brewery, but you can still catch glimpses of it from cinematic history:
Clyde might have actually been the best actor, here, in Every Which Way but Loose. Considered a departure from Eastwood’s western and police roles, a comedy was seen as “not the vibe” and Eastwood was advised against taking the role. Despite critical reviews of the films, it and its sequel Any Which Way You Can, were two of Eastwood’s highest grossing films of his career and still remains as one of the Top 250 highest grossing films of all time, adjusted for inflation, of course.
The orangutan is actually named “Manis”, and Eastwood had this to say of his primate co-star:
“Clyde was one of the most natural actors I ever worked with! But you had to get him on the first take because his boredom level was very limited.”
Eastwood has started opposite Charlie Sheen, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon, so that probably is accurate, to say the least.
Anyway, Olympia made its marketing fame from the tag line “It’s the Water” since it was made from Artesian water and was mostly famous in the Northwest for some of the same distribution ills that faced Coors back in the day. The company has repurposed itself to a distillery that specializes in artesian vodka.
While not available for us to sample nowadays, we will have to take a monkey’s word for it, it was a good beer.
Pairs well with:
- Extinction
- Jurassic Park
- Zoo Atlanta
- Bareknuckle fist fights
- Jackson Hole, Wyoming
since this beer 🍺 is a memory, when I was 18 the US Navy issued me two cans of Olympia on the flight deck of the Kittyhawk because we had operated 90 days without a port visit. Sold one of them for $10 lol
That’s awesome. On my first deployment as a Marine we had one of those mandatory fun days on the flight deck. The sergeant in charge of handing out the beer to the Marines was an old redneck boy from North Carolina and when it came to fellow Southern boys he didn’t care about the two beer limit. I got drunk as hell and missed watch for which I was given a month of mess duty as punishment. Turned out to be no punishment at all. They put me on at night which meant all I had to do was just be around at breakfast time. I didn’t end up having to actually do much of anything at all. Good times.
love it when “Punishment” becomes vacation lol
Artesian water might be great, but the artesian water from one of the largest artesian wells in the US is as nasty as you can imagine. Most things might be better in Metter, but not the water.
https://fl.water.usgs.gov/floridan/intro.html
Right turn, Clyde.
Which showed worse taste? Doing those two movies or Sandra Locke?
Ol’ Clint must have been wearing his Olympia goggles when she auditioned.
Fun fact: I know a woman down here who met Clyde down in Dothan when she auditioned for something as a middle schooler. Actually have a picture of Clyde giving her a hug.
I actually liked the Philo Beddoe movies, but that may be in part because my best friend in HS was that kind of steely eyed bare knuckle brawler, too. When Jack Wilson tells Philo in the second movie that Philo is the kind of guy who likes getting hit in the mouth because it fires him up, it rang very true with me. My buddy is that kind of dude, too. In his day, I never saw his start a fight, but I never saw him back away from one. He came in second in the one and only Toughest Man in Atlanta contest at the Omni in July, 1980. I should probably write a book, or at least, a screenplay, but the whole ordeal was so improbable, no one would believe it. Sadly, no oraguntans were involved.
Good times.
I like those movies too. I’m not too cool to admit it. Love Smokey and the Bandit so much we went and saw it in the theatre when they re-released it a few years ago to a handful of theatres. Drove to Columbus one Sunday afternoon just for that.
It was a critical failure but commercial success, so what do critics know? I used to watch it on repeat as a kid along with Bandit, which had some parts filmed around our neck of the woods in Clayton.
if you drive into Columbus to see a movie, you must be near where we hunt, technically a Shiloh address. We head into Manchester some for things but we will make the drive to Columbus if we have to.
I’m a little South of where you’re thinking but not that far. My wife is from Lumpkin and grew up going to Columbus for anything that involved much beyond the grocery store.
Well, sir, we aren’t far off. There’s a seat by the fire pit at our camp for you. Would be great if we could hang sometime and you’re welcome to bring a firearm and hunt with us post-Thanksgiving, per club rules. You’re welcome to come out and hang.
Man I appreciate that. I said the other day we need to get a Refugees hunting trip up. Thanks again for the invitation and I will take you up on it if I’m able.