But I hope Gluek's Bar in Minneapolis lives on forever!

Worst beer... ever.

The worst "Beer" ever should go to Miller Lite and the other "Light" beers that followed in it's footsteps.

Real beer doesn't have a light or lite in its name.

This may be a little off of track but have you ever noticed how beer cans and bottles that litter the country side are never quality beer, they are always crap and or "lite" supposed beer. People who drink real beer don't tend to throw the empties in the ditch.  Perhaps bad beer effects the brain in a way that deletes any sense of responsibility. Don't drink crap beer, bad for you, bad for the world.

Mediocre beer, which is not surprising considering it came from Cold Spring Brewery. They ruined the Northern brand, too. It used to be a an old style, unfiltered German beer. Good-n-cheap.

Nice post. I remember scrounging for cash with my pals as a teenager, coming up short and having to settle for PBR's discount brand Red, White, and Blue. Poor but Patriotic! Thanks zra ... a little Tom Waits for these troubled times.

ooooh. RW&B was a tough beer to drink.

@ bob: Sheaf Stout. First stout I ever had. University Inn Pub in Seattle. 

The original Red Hook ESB was always a fine quaff.

By the way, here's a bunch of Gluek Honey Bock reviews from a project I participated in a few years ago called Brew 52. Each week featured a different Minnesota beer.

I had to abandon it mid-year because it was too hard to find the beers in Duluth. Also, it was making me drink more often than I wanted to.

My girlfriend and I hit the Gluek one night, because it was so cheap, and we were in the mood to get a little crazy drunk.  Perhaps it was a bad batch, but the stuff tasted like it had been filtered through dirty pennies and left to turn halfway stale.

Panther, or Pig's Eye.