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Tonight I decided to pour a Yuengling ..right on to the Yuengling! Can't buy that beer here in Colorado, but my friends visit Back East from time to time and bring back a case for me. Nice 1944-D FS-101!! |
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Well, you've got Fat Tire. That was my go-to brew on the Front Range.
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I'm at work and can't be sure with a quick look, but of note the two dies that are quite similar are DDO-001 (WDDO-001) and WDDO-025.
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Very nice!  |
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very nice! great work on the research.
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note the two dies that are quite similar are DDO-001 (WDDO-001) and WDDO-025.  TropicalBats for the win. You can't get a closer match than that. Slightly tilted D, and the reference version even has that weird little right hook on the foot of the first 4. So why are WDDO 001 and 025 so similar? Aside from the hand punched mint mark position and the die markers, they look almost identical. Is that a coincidence? The only other explanation that occured to me is that maybe the double happened between the master die and the working hub. Then the doubled working hub struck multiple working die that carried the error forward. But I am still learning the finer points, so anyone feel free to educate me. |
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1DO-004. I just recently found and had a hard time differentiating from 1DO-001. Looks like the 1DO-004 to me.
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On DDO-001 the first four has a skinny top half to the vertical bar and a fat lower half with a big chunk out of the middle. The second 4 is similar but slightly less crazy. The dies are similar but die 1 is pretty warped. Just can be a lot harder to see all that on a circulated coin if there is any flattening of the devices.
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Well, you've got Fat Tire. That was my go-to brew on the Front Range Heya Brand, trying not to highjack your post.....They did something to Fat Tire Amber! They changed the recipe after 32 years. Tastes like crap now! Pitiful.  |
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Well, I think we reached our conclusion about the coin, so hijack away. I had one of those new beers in my brother-in-law's garage last week. It tasted so different than Fat Tire that I assumed it was some kind of variant. Why on Earth would New Belgium change the recipe to one of the most popular craft beers in the Midwest? That's practically a Coke to New Coke kind of move. Especially when they could just give it a new name. Quote:
Now known as Fat Tire Ale, it has a new recipe, new packaging and new title: America's first certified carbon neutral beer. |
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Taste Neutral in fact. I'm ordering 2 cases of Yeungling next time.
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Sorry, I got confused. Mine is a 1944S.Looks like the same working hub as the 1944D. Interesting.
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Nice catch, tropicalbats!
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As Tropicalbats said, appears to be WDDO-025 based on the mint mark position (and specifically, the slightly crooked angle leaning a few degrees clockwise). Very nice find equally good as FS-101, but not FS-101 sadly (sadly only because of arbitrary collector preferences for varieties listed in the CPG).
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08/21/2023 1:08 pm
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