Beer and Boomboxes!

Anybody else enjoying some suds out there? Urban Growler popped up on the scene a few short years ago, this Vanalla Latte Blonde Ale really hits the spot and was one of my goto drinks but I haven't seen it around for the last few weeks.... I don't like sweet beers, just give me a hint of added flavor and this works it perfectly. I do have a sweet spot for the 70's elbow busters including this MacDonald CTPR-2200A, while medium size, it takes some muscle to lift, I'm sure there's a lot of metal parts inside as well as the metal exterior cosmetic pieces. The antenna is my favorite style that retracts into the body and the handle has detents, I love that mechanical click!

This one is slightly different than the one on wikiboombox, the "STEREO" plaque on the front looks like a Vegas Sign and there are other different small printing changes. Without popping either open, I'd consider this an AKA General Electric 3-5256A and the Emerson CTR- 950, but there's some interesting major differences, overall the layout is identical.

 

Steel and Oak have paired with Boombox Brewing to come up with this brew....

 

Roof-Hound Garage Band Hazy IPA

 

Wild Rose Citrus Howl

 

Even Red Stripe?

 

Full Circle Brewery

 

Noon Whistle clocking in at 12.2%, I bet this has a kick!




and Kay Boom

 

Boombox Banger

 

3 Sons Brewing

 

Froth Brewing, Boombox #1

 

Miller Lite had special flags made for a promotion in 2016, post on the mega-deals if you see one of these for sale!

 

Today's treat is a real gem, both beer and boombox, the beer is Southern Tier French Toast Imperial Ale and the boombox is the legendary GoldStar TSR-951. I love my three-piecers, I think I've been cornering the market but they made some gems with outstanding sound. Some of these were priced more than a three unit stereo with turntable, if not double.

As others have stated, this thing is huge! Just about 30" wide and it needs a lot of room. It has cool features like the LED VU's, a lit up tuning dial needle and the green light to the right flashes red on either side to help tune in the stations. The overall design is very nice and the rounded top and bottom look great on this, sometimes that can be very difficult to pull off.

This has one of the better tuning sections and is really pulling in a lot of stations, I'm going to go out on a limb, it might be my best! but the antenna does need to go out over 1/2 way to get FM stereo to light up. It's a partly cloudy/sunny day so there's no help from the weather but it's getting stations even my component stereo struggles with. The sound coming from the other room is really impressive even from the radio, maybe I'll hook up a TT and see if it shines even more.

It has ASAP which I'm assuming is a tape song finding function but I don't know, the tape deck still works but the sound is dull and the heads look like they've been collecting dust.

As far as I'm concerned, Southern Tier's Offerings are always good but this one sat for a long time and I grabbed it on sale (which is very rare). Now I'm bumming because it's really tasty! There's just a hint of flavor and it mixes perfectly with the imperial ale, unfortunately I'll probably never see it again up here. Grab it if you see it, one is enough for a nice night time treat.

 

Radio, did you ever play around with one of these? I'm happily surprised with the sound quality.......

 

I have mine in another room, sometimes it's a good way to judge how loud a box gets when you get further away. For a room or basement, it gets pretty loud and clear.

 

I moved it and was listening more today, even though it's a very deep box I don't think the speakers have much excursion, wikiboombox mentions this. I have a feeling the weight was an issue, it has removable speakers with nice metal plates/pins but any more weight and it would have been hard to move around easily.

 

You guys need to have a beer and boombox European Edition at one of the local pubs and bring out your last stuff. I was almost going over there but it got canned last week.