>>I never drank the stuff but I remember it as being one of the great fun things of life.

>>Old Frothingslosh - the pale stale ale with the foam on the bottom...

>>Rege Cordic and Company used to make jokes about "booze in a a bag" and "The Tipless Topper" and The Pittsburgh Pothole Festival Bumper Sticker and all sorts of satire.

>>for what those are, think - a water balloon filled with beer -- a top hat with helium -- cut "hole" off the bumper sticker and you have the Pittsburgh Pot Festival --

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http://www.nbcnews.com/id/48753096/ns/l ... DUVw0RgAlU

Beer started as hoax making comeback nearly six decades later

It may have started as a hoax nearly six decades ago, but Olde Frothingslosh beer is ready to make a real comeback.

The Pittsburgh Brewing Company plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of “the pale, stale ale with foam on the bottom” with a limited-edition can.

The commemorative gold cans will feature Sir Reginald P. Frothingslosh, the “founder” of Olde Frothingslosh, as well as longtime Pittsburgh radio host Rege Cordic, who popularized the fictitious beer during the 1950s.

The beer was advertised as being "so light, the foam's on the bottom."

It gained such notoriety that Pittsburgh Brewing Company began selling Olde Frothingslosh during the Christmas seasons.

A 300-pound go-go dancer named Fatima Yechburg later debuted on the label and became known as Miss Frothingslosh.

It's probably made from very refined bleached flour, and pure sugar along the lightest yeast possible with nothing else added in order to keep the liquid as light as possible. And then passed through an extra fine filter a dozen times during the process before letting it brew. Tasteless.

devi (imported) wrote: Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:37 pm It's probably made from very refined bleached flour, and pure sugar along the lightest yeast possible with nothing else added in order to keep the liquid as light as possible. And then passed through an extra fine filter a dozen times during the process before letting it brew. Tasteless.

A white pale ale is hardly anything but tasteless. I am having one now!

"Oh my gosh, its Old Frothingslosh!" The stale pale ale for the stale pale male. Brewed with Hippity Hops from the banks of the Upper Crudney in Lower Slobovia. So light, the head's on the bottom.

Regis Cordic was, in addition to being the most zany disc jockey ever, a very serious rail fan. That is how I met him. Come to think about it, being interested in watching trains makes as much sense as did the wonderful beer. This beer was Iron City with a different label.

Iron City was an interesting beer in its own right. In taste tests, Iron from a tap was always in the most preferred group of beers. From bottles or cans, it ranked quite average. When people knew they were drinking Iron City from a bottle or can, they consistently ranked it down near the bottom. At the same time, they would rank Old Frothingslosh higher than Bud or Miller or Coors. Go figure.

Anyway, we lost Rege Cordic way too early. His stories he wrote for Trains magazine were outstanding. May the inventor of the "Flying Fraction streetcar line (77/54, a real Pittsburgh route) live forever in our memories.

Speed

devi (imported) wrote: Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:37 pm It's probably made from very refined bleached flour, and pure sugar along the lightest yeast possible with nothing else added in order to keep the liquid as light as possible. And then passed through an extra fine filter a dozen times during the process before letting it brew. Tasteless.

It was plain old Iron City Beer bottled and canned as a joke.

Honest, there were no microbreweries or anything like a beer import those years. Beer was Beer from American mass brewers or local brewers. Aside from Budweiser, Western PA never got Coors for many years after because of the insistence of keeping it fresh on tap. Iron City was the brewed locally. Rolling Rock beer was brewed and distributed locally. I don't remember other local beers since I didn't care for beer. One one bar in three counties had imported beer because the Pennsylvania state stores regulated the sale and imports were hard to get.

Old Frothingslosh is fun

Iron City Brewery has a Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_City_Brewing_Company

Regis Cordic one of the pioneers of comedy on radio and TV and in advertising, started Old Frothingslosh that was "brewed by Sir Reginald Frothingslosh at Upper Crudney-on-the-Thames. In 1955,

Dave (imported) wrote: Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:34 am Pittsburgh Brewing Company began

issuing special Christmas-season cans..." Cordic and Company was a brilliant radio show that people loved and devotedly listened too because he put a smile on their faces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regis_Cordic

And here's the obituary (Sadly, I must say. She was a lovely lady and a great sport) of Miss Old Frothingslosh, Marsha Phillips, who gave class to the silliness of brewing a beer so "lite" if had the foam on the bottom.

http://old.post-gazette.com/obituaries/ ... arsha2.asp

It is a grand obit written by a loving relative and you should read it because it represents a lost era of unabashed fun and frolic.

http://old.post-gazette.com/obituaries/ ... arsha2.asp

What a fun story. Thanks for sharing.