Olde English 800 malt liquor 40 ounces

Olde Englis 800 malt liquor is een bier:

Olde English 800 is a brand of American malt liquor produced by the Miller Brewing Company. It was introduced in 1964 and owned by Miller Brewing Company since 1999. It is available in a variety of serving sizes including, since the late 1980s, a forty ounce (1.183-litre) bottle.
Olde English 800 was introduced in 1964. It had its origins in the late 1940s as Ruff's Olde English Stout, brewed by Peoples Brewing Company of Duluth, Minnesota. Rebranded Olde English 600, it was later sold to Bohemian Breweries of Spokane, Washington, and then to Blitz-Weinhard of Portland, Oregon, where it became Olde English 800. By the time Blitz-Weinhard was sold to Pabst Brewing Company in 1979, Olde English Malt Liquor had become their top brand.
In August 1989, when the brand was owned by Pabst and targeted by the brewer towards the "urban contemporary market", a coalition of "22 public interest groups involved in minority issues" criticized the marketing of Olde English — which as a malt liquor has a high alcohol content in comparison with most beers — for what they characterized as an "emphasis on black and Hispanic consumers."
According to The New York Times, the "40-ounce bottle, introduced in the late 1980s with aggressive marketing campaigns aimed at minority drinkers" was by 1993 "fast becoming the intoxicant of choice for black and Hispanic youths in New York and other American cities"; popular culture evidence cited by the paper included the chart popularity of the song "Tap the Bottle"— a song released in November 1992 and "celebrating the consumption of 40-ounce malt liquor" and the experience of Darryl McDaniels of Run-DMC, who had "recently told a rap magazine that he had been hospitalized for alcoholic pancreatitis, the result of years of drinking as many as eight 40-ounce bottles of malt liquor a day."
"Michael Hagan's idea of a good time is to guzzle a few bottles of Olde English "800" Malt Liquor and smoke PCP with his fellow gang members in the slums of south central Los Angeles. There is no telling what might happen.”
—The first line of an August 1987 Time magazine story called "Life And Death With the Gangs"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olde_English_800)


The movie "Boyz N the Hood", written and directed by John Singleton. Seen here from left, Baldwin C. Sykes (as Monster) and Dedrick D. Gobert as Dooky (with pacifier in his mouth). Theatrical release July 12, 1991. Screen capture. Copyright © 1991 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Credit: © 1991 Columbia Pictures / Courtesy: Pyxurz (http://pyxurz.blogspot.nl/2014/02/boyz-n-hood-page-4-of-7.html).

Seen here, Ice Cube (as Doughboy) taking a swig from a 40 ounce bottle of St. Ides malt liquor. Theatrical release July 12, 1991. Screen capture. Copyright © 1991 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Credit: © 1991 Columbia Pictures / Courtesy: Pyxurz (http://pyxurz.blogspot.nl/2014/02/boyz-n-hood-page-4-of-7.html).

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis:
[Verse 3: Macklemore]
Gold coins, gold phone, gold car
...
And it’s gold, two girls gold brass
Lounging on the water, feet in the gold sand
Sipping on Orangina, arms around them both pants
They’re sipping Olde English right out of a gold can
Two girls, gold spandex so pretty
...(While he’s drinking his Orangina, the girls are drinking Olde English?)(http://genius.com/Macklemore-and-ryan-lewis-gold-lyrics/)








As of 2010, Olde English 800 is brewed in several versions which vary in alcohol by volume (ABV):

BrandABV
Olde English 800 East Coast Through Midwest (US)5.9%, 7.7%
Olde English 800 in Oklahoma (US)3.2% ABW (approximately 4.2% ABV)
Olde English 800 7.5 West Coast (US)7.5%
Olde English High Gravity 800 (US)8.0%
Olde English 800 (EU)6.1% ABV
Olde English 800 (Canada)8.0% ABV
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olde_English_800)

Olde English "800" is a session beer that you can take your good times to and it will not let you down. It isn't the best, but it definitely isn't the worst. But, as a session beer, you can't fuck with it. This shit will keep you where you need to be, and in the olde school style that you could only dream of back when you were 15 livin' in the hood. This is the brew to unite cultures across boarders and backgrounds.
3.2%: Drank this in some freezing winds while filming for 40ozMaltLiquorTV. Flowed down like a weaker version of regular (5.9%) OE. Much paler & clearer in color too. Consider this an "OE800 Light".
5.9%: Even people not in the 40oz game know of OE800. It's classic. The label has remained untouched all these years, as it better remain so, and the taste is the perfect malt liquor taste. Flows down beautifully from beginning to end. If you see someone at a party with a beer 40, smack it out of their hand - chances are they don't have a malt 40 cuz they're weaklings who don't like the taste. But there's nothing to not like about OE800.
7.5%: Started this one immediately after a filling dinner of BBQ wings, mac n cheese, & cucumbers with a giant chocolate chip cookie for dessert... so I wasn't exactly ready to put this down, but craving alcohol I cracked the cap anyway. Tastes like the 5.9% version, maybe you can slightly taste the alcohol more or maybe I'm just expecting to & you really can't. Regardless, it tastes great & it's still classic OE. In fact, this may be better cuz it's stronger!!
Canadian 8.0%: Good crack. Decent first sip - tastes like a stronger (american) OE800, just like it should. Not at all like OE HG 800, thank God! Goes great with grilled BBQ wings, potato salad, coleslaw & tomatos. Surprisingly good, smooth taste for what in America would be considered a high gravity. Caramel filled Hershey Kisses make a good dessert with this canadian HG style brew. I don't understand why OE800 can brew such a good tasting & smooth "HG" malt such as this, while at the same time put out OE HG 800 which tastes like hell...? If this were OE HG 800, it'd be one of my favorite HGs. But it's not. And it's only available in Canada at 8%.
64oz: I had my first 64oz OE Halloween night in the year 2000. I couldn't find da it up til then, but man was it sweet! I put mine down in 43 minutes, my roommate "Beerface" took 2 hours & 24 minutes (weak)! (www.40ozmaltliquor.com/archive/oe800.html)

olde english
the perfect drink for unemployed canadians like me. 8% alcohol(CAN) 7.5(USA). after this, beers taste like spring water (http://nl.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=olde+english)