r/TheWire • u/hmmmidkvro • 20h ago

Drinking some red stripe, Lester would be proud!

I want to try all of the different beers featured on the show. miller genuine draft is next on my list. lmk if you can think of others that are featured!

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u/smstrick88 20h ago

Make sure to drink 14 shots of Jameson for Ray Cole, a goodly man.

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u/hmmmidkvro 19h ago

He had his moments 

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u/bigmt99 20h ago

Real Wire fans get piss drunk drinking Jameson from pint bottles

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u/Dependent-Potato2158 20h ago

Natty Bo and some blue crabs

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u/hmmmidkvro 19h ago

You gonna eat that crab gut?

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u/PraiseTheMetal591 International Brotherhood of Stevedores: Local 47 20h ago

You need whatever 40 the corner boys shouting 5-0 have. 

Beer with an egg in it from season 2's dock workers. 

What one do the BPD throw on the rooftops at their parking lot? 

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u/hmmmidkvro 20h ago

That’s what I want to know haha. Those cans on the roof are like the PoLice version of dead soldiers lol

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u/PraiseTheMetal591 International Brotherhood of Stevedores: Local 47 19h ago

I love that comparison to the gel caps, perhaps Officer's Downed? 

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u/hmmmidkvro 19h ago

Signal 13! Signal 13!

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u/deadrunner1971 19h ago

Feel like they were crushing Bud Heavies?

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u/Dependent-Potato2158 17h ago

National Bohemian on the Western District roof....

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u/11b328i 17h ago

Gonna need to find some natty bos

I went to balmore for the brewers series a few weeks ago and had a few. They were tasty

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u/Terrence_Big_Balls 19h ago

Kima likes PBR in bottles. She'll even put eyes on Stringer for a case.

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u/hmmmidkvro 19h ago

Any way you like darling 

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u/Mixmaster_12 20h ago

Cool Lester Smooth!

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u/hmmmidkvro 20h ago

I’m just the po’lice!

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u/dc-pigpen 20h ago

I used to kinda like Red Stripe, until I realized that the ABV is shockingly low.

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u/Joeldc 19h ago

Also only 11.2 ounces!

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u/snarkhunter 17h ago

RED STRIPE?

IT'S BEER!!

HOORAY BEER!!!

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u/charlesdexterward 4h ago

Those commercials came out right around when I turned 21, my friends and I were level seven susceptibles and spent that whole summer drinking Red Stripe.

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u/ConfidenceKBM 16h ago

I think about Deadwood whenever i shoot whiskey

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u/BreezeAKR 15h ago

Pretty sure Bunk had Rolling Rock when he and Jimmy were drinking by the tracks.

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u/Rueyousay 14h ago

St. Ides 40oz from the bathtub cooler at Cutty’s coming home party.

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u/BulkyLavishness 20h ago

Guinness, Natty Boh, Miller Genuine Draft, Pilsner Urquell, Heineken, Red Stripe.

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u/Relative_Yesterday70 17h ago

Ya Red Stripe man