Joe, remember the line from Stan Rogers' Mary Ellen Carter--"And with every jar that hit the bar, we swore..."

I could be wrong, but I thought one had whiskey with a BEER chaser, not the other way round.

And Don, there were THIRTY breweries in Syracuse??? Where were they all hiding in my formative years there??? I can't say I ever knew anybody to wax nostalgic over upstate beer: Genesee, Utica Club, etc, were all compared UNfavorably to another yellow liquid! If one couldn't get German or Irish beer, CANADIAN beer was the drink of choice, as I recall. And Coors was some kind of exotic thing that was unavailable in the wild east!