(09-05-2022 09:21 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:11 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 02:52 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 01:39 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  The people who work at Mission’s Grove and the vendors are normal people who don’t want to work outdoors in winter weather. Can’t blame them. Plus, on those tundra evenings, they don’t feel like thawing out the beer taps (for the idiots who enjoy drinking a cold beer outside on a frigid night).

During the one summer I spent in DeKalb, I unfortunately attended a few keggers of warm beer on hot humid nights. They didn't want to spend 30 bucks for ice because it will eat into their $700.00 profit they made selling $2.00 cups.

Quite honestly, I don't know is worse, cold beer on a frigid day or warm beer on a hot night. I don't know how the English can do it.

$2 cups?! What year was this? It was $5 from 2006-2009. Then they went full speed on banning anyone who even thought of kegs. The penalty was so high from senior year on.

Ha! When I was at NIU, I used to spend 25 cents for a glass of beer in the bars downtown.

I think it was around $5 at the bars when I went. I remember thinking $50 was such a large tab.

25 cent Fallstaff drafts at a bar downtown. Can’t remember the name. Mid 80’s

(09-05-2022 09:23 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:21 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:11 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 02:52 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 01:39 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  The people who work at Mission’s Grove and the vendors are normal people who don’t want to work outdoors in winter weather. Can’t blame them. Plus, on those tundra evenings, they don’t feel like thawing out the beer taps (for the idiots who enjoy drinking a cold beer outside on a frigid night).

During the one summer I spent in DeKalb, I unfortunately attended a few keggers of warm beer on hot humid nights. They didn't want to spend 30 bucks for ice because it will eat into their $700.00 profit they made selling $2.00 cups.

Quite honestly, I don't know is worse, cold beer on a frigid day or warm beer on a hot night. I don't know how the English can do it.

$2 cups?! What year was this? It was $5 from 2006-2009. Then they went full speed on banning anyone who even thought of kegs. The penalty was so high from senior year on.

Ha! When I was at NIU, I used to spend 25 cents for a glass of beer in the bars downtown.

I think it was around $5 at the bars when I went. I remember thinking $50 was such a large tab.

$3 a cup late 80s-early 90s.

When I got to NIU I didn’t like beer. Would drink the schnapps, MD 20/20,Night Train. You learn to like beer real fast at parties. 10s of thousands of beers later , never looked back.

(09-05-2022 09:21 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:11 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 02:52 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 01:39 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  The people who work at Mission’s Grove and the vendors are normal people who don’t want to work outdoors in winter weather. Can’t blame them. Plus, on those tundra evenings, they don’t feel like thawing out the beer taps (for the idiots who enjoy drinking a cold beer outside on a frigid night).

During the one summer I spent in DeKalb, I unfortunately attended a few keggers of warm beer on hot humid nights. They didn't want to spend 30 bucks for ice because it will eat into their $700.00 profit they made selling $2.00 cups.

Quite honestly, I don't know is worse, cold beer on a frigid day or warm beer on a hot night. I don't know how the English can do it.

$2 cups?! What year was this? It was $5 from 2006-2009. Then they went full speed on banning anyone who even thought of kegs. The penalty was so high from senior year on.

Ha! When I was at NIU, I used to spend 25 cents for a glass of beer in the bars downtown.

I’m with you DF. That was my budget. Every once in a while I would splurge and have a 40 cent cocktail.

(09-06-2022 07:21 AM)thxjoenovak Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:21 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:11 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 02:52 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 01:39 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  The people who work at Mission’s Grove and the vendors are normal people who don’t want to work outdoors in winter weather. Can’t blame them. Plus, on those tundra evenings, they don’t feel like thawing out the beer taps (for the idiots who enjoy drinking a cold beer outside on a frigid night).

During the one summer I spent in DeKalb, I unfortunately attended a few keggers of warm beer on hot humid nights. They didn't want to spend 30 bucks for ice because it will eat into their $700.00 profit they made selling $2.00 cups.

Quite honestly, I don't know is worse, cold beer on a frigid day or warm beer on a hot night. I don't know how the English can do it.

$2 cups?! What year was this? It was $5 from 2006-2009. Then they went full speed on banning anyone who even thought of kegs. The penalty was so high from senior year on.

Ha! When I was at NIU, I used to spend 25 cents for a glass of beer in the bars downtown.

I’m with you DF. That was my budget. Every once in a while I would splurge and have a 40 cent cocktail.

When I got to DeKalb, I did not like beer. But, after awhile, I acquired the taste for it. When my friends and I went to the bar, I would have a hard drink for every one of the 8 beers they drank. And, I had to drive them back to the dorm. Fun times!

(09-06-2022 08:00 AM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(09-06-2022 07:21 AM)thxjoenovak Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:21 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:11 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 02:52 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  During the one summer I spent in DeKalb, I unfortunately attended a few keggers of warm beer on hot humid nights. They didn't want to spend 30 bucks for ice because it will eat into their $700.00 profit they made selling $2.00 cups.

Quite honestly, I don't know is worse, cold beer on a frigid day or warm beer on a hot night. I don't know how the English can do it.

$2 cups?! What year was this? It was $5 from 2006-2009. Then they went full speed on banning anyone who even thought of kegs. The penalty was so high from senior year on.

Ha! When I was at NIU, I used to spend 25 cents for a glass of beer in the bars downtown.

I’m with you DF. That was my budget. Every once in a while I would splurge and have a 40 cent cocktail.

When I got to DeKalb, I did not like beer. But, after awhile, I acquired the taste for it. When my friends and I went to the bar, I would have a hard drink for every one of the 8 beers they drank. And, I had to drive them back to the dorm. Fun times!

I am sure that they had to make a mandatory stop at the Grotto before being driven home?

(09-05-2022 09:11 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 02:52 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 01:39 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  The people who work at Mission’s Grove and the vendors are normal people who don’t want to work outdoors in winter weather. Can’t blame them. Plus, on those tundra evenings, they don’t feel like thawing out the beer taps (for the idiots who enjoy drinking a cold beer outside on a frigid night).

During the one summer I spent in DeKalb, I unfortunately attended a few keggers of warm beer on hot humid nights. They didn't want to spend 30 bucks for ice because it will eat into their $700.00 profit they made selling $2.00 cups.

Quite honestly, I don't know is worse, cold beer on a frigid day or warm beer on a hot night. I don't know how the English can do it.

$2 cups?! What year was this? It was $5 from 2006-2009. Then they went full speed on banning anyone who even thought of kegs. The penalty was so high from senior year on.

I attended NIU in the late eighties and several places had cheap beer. The stadium club had $1.00 pint taps on special. Lord Stanley's had $3.00 pitcher nights. There were quarter beer specials sometimes. different times different prices!

Watch that attendence during the Vandy game though, going to be packed

(09-05-2022 09:11 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 02:52 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 01:39 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  The people who work at Mission’s Grove and the vendors are normal people who don’t want to work outdoors in winter weather. Can’t blame them. Plus, on those tundra evenings, they don’t feel like thawing out the beer taps (for the idiots who enjoy drinking a cold beer outside on a frigid night).

During the one summer I spent in DeKalb, I unfortunately attended a few keggers of warm beer on hot humid nights. They didn't want to spend 30 bucks for ice because it will eat into their $700.00 profit they made selling $2.00 cups.

Quite honestly, I don't know is worse, cold beer on a frigid day or warm beer on a hot night. I don't know how the English can do it.

$2 cups?! What year was this? It was $5 from 2006-2009. Then they went full speed on banning anyone who even thought of kegs. The penalty was so high from senior year on.

Mid-Eighties. .I think by the time I graduated, you started seeing $3.00/cup.

I do remember in 1986 that the Bottle Star would charge $19.95/keg for Red, White and Blue. I think Miller was going for $25.00/Keg. But it was heresy to go to a better beer and spend and extra $5.05 cents.

(09-05-2022 09:21 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:11 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 02:52 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 01:39 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  The people who work at Mission’s Grove and the vendors are normal people who don’t want to work outdoors in winter weather. Can’t blame them. Plus, on those tundra evenings, they don’t feel like thawing out the beer taps (for the idiots who enjoy drinking a cold beer outside on a frigid night).

During the one summer I spent in DeKalb, I unfortunately attended a few keggers of warm beer on hot humid nights. They didn't want to spend 30 bucks for ice because it will eat into their $700.00 profit they made selling $2.00 cups.

Quite honestly, I don't know is worse, cold beer on a frigid day or warm beer on a hot night. I don't know how the English can do it.

$2 cups?! What year was this? It was $5 from 2006-2009. Then they went full speed on banning anyone who even thought of kegs. The penalty was so high from senior year on.

Ha! When I was at NIU, I used to spend 25 cents for a glass of beer in the bars downtown.

Andy's would have 25 cent beers on Thursday night, but I think they would give you a 6oz cup. .Either way, still a cheap night.

I remember The Jungle would give you 5 shot mixed drinks for $2.50.The bartender showed me the Vodka they used which was an obscure name that I never heard of, but the kicker was that it was 40 proof.

(09-05-2022 11:03 PM)randyfensfanclub1 Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:23 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:21 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:11 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 02:52 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  During the one summer I spent in DeKalb, I unfortunately attended a few keggers of warm beer on hot humid nights. They didn't want to spend 30 bucks for ice because it will eat into their $700.00 profit they made selling $2.00 cups.

Quite honestly, I don't know is worse, cold beer on a frigid day or warm beer on a hot night. I don't know how the English can do it.

$2 cups?! What year was this? It was $5 from 2006-2009. Then they went full speed on banning anyone who even thought of kegs. The penalty was so high from senior year on.

Ha! When I was at NIU, I used to spend 25 cents for a glass of beer in the bars downtown.

I think it was around $5 at the bars when I went. I remember thinking $50 was such a large tab.

$3 a cup late 80s-early 90s.

When I got to NIU I didn’t like beer. Would drink the schnapps, MD 20/20,Night Train. You learn to like beer real fast at parties. 10s of thousands of beers later , never looked back.

The headaches in the morning after a night of drinking the Mad Doctor /Mad Dog were brutal. I don't think there was anything close to a grape that went into that mixture.

(09-05-2022 10:54 PM)MGMFIN86 Wrote:  25 cent Fallstaff drafts at a bar downtown. Can’t remember the name. Mid 80’s

Andy's Tap.

(09-06-2022 09:18 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:21 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:11 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 02:52 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 01:39 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  The people who work at Mission’s Grove and the vendors are normal people who don’t want to work outdoors in winter weather. Can’t blame them. Plus, on those tundra evenings, they don’t feel like thawing out the beer taps (for the idiots who enjoy drinking a cold beer outside on a frigid night).

During the one summer I spent in DeKalb, I unfortunately attended a few keggers of warm beer on hot humid nights. They didn't want to spend 30 bucks for ice because it will eat into their $700.00 profit they made selling $2.00 cups.

Quite honestly, I don't know is worse, cold beer on a frigid day or warm beer on a hot night. I don't know how the English can do it.

$2 cups?! What year was this? It was $5 from 2006-2009. Then they went full speed on banning anyone who even thought of kegs. The penalty was so high from senior year on.

Ha! When I was at NIU, I used to spend 25 cents for a glass of beer in the bars downtown.

Andy's would have 25 cent beers on Thursday night, but I think they would give you a 6oz cup. .Either way, still a cheap night.

I remember The Jungle would give you 5 shot mixed drinks for $2.50.The bartender showed me the Vodka they used which was an obscure name that I never heard of, but the kicker was that it was 40 proof.

Mcabes in the mid seventies was about $.50 a beer. if we really wanted to get hammererd, we'd splurge at the Uprising with $.75 malt liquer.

(09-06-2022 09:18 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:21 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:11 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 02:52 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 01:39 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  The people who work at Mission’s Grove and the vendors are normal people who don’t want to work outdoors in winter weather. Can’t blame them. Plus, on those tundra evenings, they don’t feel like thawing out the beer taps (for the idiots who enjoy drinking a cold beer outside on a frigid night).

During the one summer I spent in DeKalb, I unfortunately attended a few keggers of warm beer on hot humid nights. They didn't want to spend 30 bucks for ice because it will eat into their $700.00 profit they made selling $2.00 cups.

Quite honestly, I don't know is worse, cold beer on a frigid day or warm beer on a hot night. I don't know how the English can do it.

$2 cups?! What year was this? It was $5 from 2006-2009. Then they went full speed on banning anyone who even thought of kegs. The penalty was so high from senior year on.

Ha! When I was at NIU, I used to spend 25 cents for a glass of beer in the bars downtown.

Andy's would have 25 cent beers on Thursday night, but I think they would give you a 6oz cup. .Either way, still a cheap night.

I remember The Jungle would give you 5 shot mixed drinks for $2.50.The bartender showed me the Vodka they used which was an obscure name that I never heard of, but the kicker was that it was 40 proof.

40 proof is 20% abv.

I'm not even sure you could legally sell that as a spirt at the level.

(09-06-2022 09:32 PM)Big Red Wrote:  

(09-06-2022 09:18 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:21 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:11 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 02:52 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  During the one summer I spent in DeKalb, I unfortunately attended a few keggers of warm beer on hot humid nights. They didn't want to spend 30 bucks for ice because it will eat into their $700.00 profit they made selling $2.00 cups.

Quite honestly, I don't know is worse, cold beer on a frigid day or warm beer on a hot night. I don't know how the English can do it.

$2 cups?! What year was this? It was $5 from 2006-2009. Then they went full speed on banning anyone who even thought of kegs. The penalty was so high from senior year on.

Ha! When I was at NIU, I used to spend 25 cents for a glass of beer in the bars downtown.

Andy's would have 25 cent beers on Thursday night, but I think they would give you a 6oz cup. .Either way, still a cheap night.

I remember The Jungle would give you 5 shot mixed drinks for $2.50.The bartender showed me the Vodka they used which was an obscure name that I never heard of, but the kicker was that it was 40 proof.

40 proof is 20% abv.

I'm not even sure you could legally sell that as a spirt at the level.

You are probably right. Until the bartender at the Jungle showed me the bottle, I couldn't figure out why I could pound mixed drinks at the Jungle but when I go the AMEX, I would be puking on half of the amount. I always thought AMEX was using crappy vodka.

(09-06-2022 09:41 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(09-06-2022 09:32 PM)Big Red Wrote:  

(09-06-2022 09:18 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  Andy's would have 25 cent beers on Thursday night, but I think they would give you a 6oz cup. .Either way, still a cheap night.

I remember The Jungle would give you 5 shot mixed drinks for $2.50.The bartender showed me the Vodka they used which was an obscure name that I never heard of, but the kicker was that it was 40 proof.

40 proof is 20% abv.

I'm not even sure you could legally sell that as a spirt at the level.

You are probably right. Until the bartender at the Jungle showed me the bottle, I couldn't figure out why I could pound mixed drinks at the Jungle but when I go the AMEX, I would be puking on half of the amount. I always thought AMEX was using crappy vodka.

The Jungle was so cheap. It was still there in the early 2000s. $5 margarita fish bowls. They would make you pay a $5 cover charge for pizza and put a bunch of them out in the basement counter. It must have been their way to sell a certain amount of food based on the type of liquor license they had.

So...GameDay experience?

(09-06-2022 10:29 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  So...GameDay experience?

That was training for tailgating to make sure we have a good Gameday Experience.

(09-06-2022 09:23 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 11:03 PM)randyfensfanclub1 Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:23 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:21 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:11 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  $2 cups?! What year was this? It was $5 from 2006-2009. Then they went full speed on banning anyone who even thought of kegs. The penalty was so high from senior year on.

Ha! When I was at NIU, I used to spend 25 cents for a glass of beer in the bars downtown.

I think it was around $5 at the bars when I went. I remember thinking $50 was such a large tab.

$3 a cup late 80s-early 90s.

When I got to NIU I didn’t like beer. Would drink the schnapps, MD 20/20,Night Train. You learn to like beer real fast at parties. 10s of thousands of beers later , never looked back.

The headaches in the morning after a night of drinking the Mad Doctor /Mad Dog were brutal. I don't think there was anything close to a grape that went into that mixture.

I obviously went for the alcohol content. So preferred Orange Jubilee. If I had a taste for grape.....it was the Night Train Express!!!

Yeah, plenty of bad hangovers and

(09-06-2022 09:41 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(09-06-2022 09:32 PM)Big Red Wrote:  

(09-06-2022 09:18 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:21 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(09-05-2022 09:11 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  $2 cups?! What year was this? It was $5 from 2006-2009. Then they went full speed on banning anyone who even thought of kegs. The penalty was so high from senior year on.

Ha! When I was at NIU, I used to spend 25 cents for a glass of beer in the bars downtown.

Andy's would have 25 cent beers on Thursday night, but I think they would give you a 6oz cup. .Either way, still a cheap night.

I remember The Jungle would give you 5 shot mixed drinks for $2.50.The bartender showed me the Vodka they used which was an obscure name that I never heard of, but the kicker was that it was 40 proof.

40 proof is 20% abv.

I'm not even sure you could legally sell that as a spirt at the level.

You are probably right. Until the bartender at the Jungle showed me the bottle, I couldn't figure out why I could pound mixed drinks at the Jungle but when I go the AMEX, I would be puking on half of the amount. I always thought AMEX was using crappy vodka.

Some of them probably used "Huskie Vodka" with the Huskie on it from Bottle Store. Owner told me story once, I forgot.

Otto's had the "OttoBrau." $2.50 32 oz cup whatever they had to get rid of. Was always a surprise as to what you got!

AMEX had 3 shots of Sambuca for $2 during week. We took my roommate there for his 21st. 2 of us ordered 6 at a time 2x. We drank 1.5 each and gave him a triple 2x w/o him knowing. He was done. Not a drinker, carried him out.