The cost of a beer the year you turned 21

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The cost of a beer the year you turned 21

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It was 18 for me
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Yea, it was 21 for me in PA, but it was 18 in OH just down the road.

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18 for me in WV. All our beer was 3.2. It ran around 35 cents a 12 oz. bottle in a bar.
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10 cents - cost at the airman's club on base. 1963 - 1971 it was always .10 and 3.2
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I may have been to drunk in those days to even care what I paid for a beer!!!! Luckily I did out grow that!!!


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Connecticut kept changing the drinking age from 18, to 19, to 20, to 21--at EXACTLY the same time I was turning 18, then 19, then 20, then 21 back in the early 80's. Some years I was a couple months to the good, at least once I was underage for a month or so. I seem to remember buying Busch at the small grocery on UConn's campus for $1.99 a six ...
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When I turned 21 you could buy a case of Bud, Miller, Old Style or Stroh's at Walgreens for $5.97 + tax.
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I don't quite remember the price of beer, I think a six-pack of Schlitz was about a $1.50.
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I was (am) always good at finding cheap prices for beer. Pfeiffer's was $3.99/case of long necks in the mid 80's when I was in college, I think maybe Leinenkugel's was also $3.99. On a more recent note, I got two cases of Molson Canadian for $7.50 each after rebate a few months ago.
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