What kind of drinks did they drink during WWII?

Question

I'm trying to throw a WWII party and want to be authentic as possible - what types of beer (brands preferably) were Americans (or Germans...) drinking back during WWII? Also, is there anything besides beer that was pretty common at the time?

Answer 1

According to old movies: martinis and manhattans were popular cocktails. Don't ask me how to make one.
Beers would be tougher. They had Budweiser, Miller High Life (not Lite or MGD) for national beers. Also Schlitz. Coors was a regional beer.
Judging from family home movies, regional beers like Hamms, Olympia and Narragansett were common. Even overseas, the beers that that GIs got were often regional beers. Good luck finding that stuff.
Oh yeah. The beers in cans had to be opened with a church key opener. There were no pull lids. Bottles needed bottle openers (like Sam Adams).

Answer 2

World War 2 Drinks

Answer 3

For Americans Coca cola in glass bottles and lemonade in glass bottles. As alcohol beer and Burbon, and whisky. For English beer, mostly "Stout" . cider, and superalcoholic. French wine and different cordials, cognac, armagnac etc. Germans Beers (mostly the traditiona yet exsisting Lager, Weiss etc) , some wine, Shnaps (that is a alcoholic made from distillation of Cider , about 27-30 % alcohol). Italians wine and, especially for mountain troops "Alpini" "Grappa" coming from distillation of wine process products (eheeh Whiskey is something for women if compared to a dry grappa). Civilians drunk also Vermouth (Martini is a kind of Vermouth , but at that age there exsist many different brands)..
Russians drunk Vodka, but also red black sea wine when lucky (or when a communist party boss) or even pure alcohol when desperate...

Answer 4

As a child I have seen at railway stations that ground staff will keep large drums full of tea ready to be served to soldiers , whose trains will stop there. The soldiers will alight from their carriages with the mugs and take tea from drums kept in the platforms. The steel drums used to be of more than 200 liter capacity. The mugs of the soldiers used to be almost of one liter capacity.I remember having seen them laughing, joking and taking tea with loafs.They used to offer loafs to any citizen passing by.While their trains were passing close to any village and if they saw any villager looking at them, the soldiers used to liberally throw packets of biscuits or bread to them.

Answer 5

According to the Andrews Sisters they drank "Rum and Coca Cola". I know that non-alcoholic they liked Lemonade, and bottled Coke (not Pepsi) - in glass, not plastic, bottles.