Talk:Lucky Lager

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The article states the the Olympia brewery in Tumwater, WA began brewing Lucky Lager in 2003, but I specifically remember drinking it in college in the early nineties, and seeing it as being produced in Tumwater back then. Was it a case of same city, different brewery? Towknie 08:21, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Does anyone know the year when the Vancouver brewery closed? Dragomiloff 23:50, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Someone vandalized this article. I deleted the garbage, leaving the article somewhat discombobulated. Someone who knows what they are talking about should fix it! Dieziege 03:01, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't trust this article, its not well sourced, and Lucky is a beer that is associated with BC, Canada. A cheap Canadian beer! Myciconia 06:03, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I deleted the "disputed" tag. Just because you've never heard of it, doesn't mean it didn't exist. I've been collecting breweriana for over 30 years, I've researched the history of this brewery in the trade journals of the breweing industry from the 1930s on, and I've even published an article about it in a breweriana magazine and there is nothing inaccurate on this page that I can see. HOWEVER, you are right that it needs better sourcing and I will add the appropriate footnotes when I can. Hanover81 13:41, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

There is some inaccuracies about this history of Lucky Lager. The Azusa brewery was NOT closed in 1971. The Azusa brewery was sold to Miller in 1966, they operated it here for many years before relocating to the new more modern Irwindale plant 4 exits up the freeway in the 1980's. Paul Kalmanovitz NEVER owned the Azusa Brewery. No one has mentioned that Paul's second brewery was the Regal Pale brewery which he took over in 1960 and closed it 6 months later within two years this great San Francisco regional brewery was torn down as Mr. Paul didn't want to pay taxes to SF county on an empty building.

PF Lucky Lager collector

Lucky lager is undoubtedly the most popular beer in North Vancouver Island BC Canada

I just stumbled across this entry about it and was surprised to read it's history. It's a *very* common beer in these parts and I'm wondering if the Lucky beer made by Labatts here in Canada is a completely different beer than the Lucky being discussed originally. (although the logo is similar with a big X).

Perhaps Labatts bought the rights to it or something a long time ago?

In any case it probably doesn't belong in this article if the article's category is beer and breweries in the United States because it's alive and well and all Canadian AFAIK.

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I changed the availability section to reflect this fact, as I too know for a fact that it is extremely popular on vancouver island. Imapwnu 06:40, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

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For what it's worth, Lucky was widely available (and popular in certain circles) throughout Southern California in the 80's and 90's in the 11 oz. bottle - and I'm fairly certain that it was still being sold in that style as late as last year (2007) when I was last in the area. The author of this article doesn't state when the bottle was discontinued or provide any further information about it at all. Given that the packaging (bottle & crown) are one of the more noteworthy aspects of Lucky, could we get more details and-slash-or a clarification?

If no one can or will confirm that the stubby bottle is still in use, I will look into it when I am back in town. 71.206.216.251 (talk) 04:16, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

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2 luckys?

Could it be that there are two different Lucky Lagers and that's why this page is all over the place?? For example, the Ontario Lucky [1] doesn't have the same label as the Vancouver Island Lucky [2]. Can anyone shed some light into this? 209.196.230.72 (talk) 19:07, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, there is at least one American Lucky Lager and one Canadian Lucky Lager. Maybe there's even another Canadian one? Regardless, this article is an incoherent mess, and someone who knows more about Lucky needs to split this information into separate pages for the different beers.Lest69 (talk) 17:02, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Lucky Lager allegedly "green" in the southern California fifties

Several adults in the neighborhood in southern California in the early nineteen-fifties, among them a teamster in his twenties, an auto mechanic in his forties or so, and yet another, a grandfather of many — a barber well into his eighties, I would think — all volunteered the thought nearly sixty years ago that none of them would drink Lucky Lager, for each one claimed that Lucky Lager was "green," by which he meant, one said, that it was not and had not ever been properly aged.

Just an anecdotal recollection, but accurate to the best of my memory of a Labor Day discussion that may have been loosened by the lubricant of some other brewer's beer.

~I grew up in San Diego and remember driving past the Lucky Lager factory that could be seen from the freeway when I went up to LA to visit the grandparents. Lucky Lager was terrible,but CHEAP and nasty beer that I remember drinking in the late 60's when I came of age but did not have much money to spend.~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.43.234.217 (talk) 03:06, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

~ Wordsmith (talk) 04:45, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

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I'm no expert on anything, really, except me. In the late 40's and 50's, we lived just north of Seattle's city limits. Other children and I routinely scoured the roadsides and blackberry bushes for beer bottles (worth a penny each, 5 cents for quart bottles) and soda bottles (two cents regular, 5 cents quart). There were three kinds of beer bottles that constituted 90% of our haul: Olympia, Rainier, and Lucky. They were all in short brown bottles. There were occasional longneck green Heinekens. Just now I was singing the Lucky Lager jingle to my husband, who looked at me with that blank stare that is the universal word for "Hunh?" when it occurred to me to Wikilukup, which is Hawaiian for "Google it." I thought the article was readable, decently organized, and informative. I'm left wondering, however, why it's popular in Michigan and not other parts of the US. I enjoyed learning about the split ownership of the name, but now wonder if the BC beer is the same as the US beer. In my kidhood, our accent was distinctly Canadian and we used Canadian money interchangeably with US; even vending machines took Canadian coins. (After all, we mighta bin Canadian if it weren't for George Washington Bush.) So it makes sense that Lucky would be fiercely defended on Vancouver Island: We're very similar cultures, despite our upgrade to the patina à la mode of 'big city' that we wear today, thanks to high real estate prices in SoCal and Bill Gates' homecoming. And for Pete's sake, "Snoqualmie" is pronounced with four syllables, "Puyallup" does not sound like "you/wallop" but like "you/Al, up" and "Canuk" sounds like "k¨/nook" not "k¨/nuck" I'm just sayin' 68.178.124.106 (talk) 23:18, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

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