does anyone who was in high school in the early eighties and drank malt duck ever noticed the striking similarity between it and the really popular Red-Bull energy drink? both in color and taste!

yeah, i noticed the similarity, personally i think it's the same stuff, minus the liquor.....

I remember Malt Duck! We bought by the grocery sack full. The brewery that made it shut down in 1979 I belive . maybe some old stock lasted a couple of years, apparantly. One of the really pathetic and irritating descriptions of it out there says it was just cold duck mixed with malt liquor. right, can you imagine how nasty that would have tasted? It was an actual grape flavored malt liquor. And alot people think for some reason this is the same as straight liquor , like say vodka, etc. It's not, it's just a name for a brew made basically with mostly malt and normally a littel stronger than the average beer. Purple teeth forever!

as i recall, malt duck was sold in two flavors; grape and apple. malt duck was the choice of the disco crowd in and around washington, d.c. in the mid 70's. i was a little younger and had to sneak my samplings of boone's farm, annie greenspring, ripple, and my favorite, hop'n gator1

I loved Malt Duck, I preferred the Grape but Apple was good too! We bought it by the case and came in Pony bottles. Sad it doen't exsist anymore. :(

God do I remember malt duck....back in the days (70's) you'd grab your 8 pack, cruise and get wasted.. I miss malt duck, wish someone would bring it back

Gill....your right....us Marylanders loved the stuff...it did seem to be more popular in this area......does anyone remember Keelers Shandy? the beer that tasted like sprite

Agreed...we drank Malt Duck in Kansas like it was going out of style. We even had a 'dance' called the 'Malt Duck Stomp'. Seems like we could buy it after '79, as I thought we drank it all through high school (graduated in '82). I also wish someone would make it now!

In high school in Northern VA in the late seventies, Malt Duck was our drink of choice. It was fairly cheap, very potent, and the taste was reminiscent of grape Bubble Yum. As I remember it came in four packs and quarts, either of which was sufficient to put even a sizable guy on his butt. It made life exactly like the Smashing Pumpkins' video for "1979".

In Louisiana back in high school in the 80s ,we would buy that stuff by the case every weekend. It came in the little 7oz glass pony bottles.I love that stuff. can you still buy it anywhere.

For all you Apple Malt Duck lovers out there...I found a beer that tastes just like it!!! At Heartland Brewery they have a beer called Raspberry Cider (I think that is the correct name. Don't let the name fool you, it tastes just like the Apple Malt Duck! It's cider beer topped with Chambord.

"The Duck" was made well into the mid 1980's by someone. It was grape and in the pony bottles, and we drank a truckloads of the stuff from about 1984-1988. It couldn't have been just left over stock at that point. We were able to buy it from a little country store, and he had to order more each week for us. I am sure it would be rough to drink it now, but then it was the king, especially for the girls who didn't like the taste of beer

The apple was better, I wondered what happened to that stuff, we used to drink it by the case on saturday afternoons on the way to foot ball games in 78

If we didn't miss it, we wouldn't be talking about it today. It was better than any malt liquor that's out today. We didn't go out hurting each other from drinking it.Maybe it was just the times. It was all about good times and the party. There was 3 flavors in our area. Regular, apple and grape. We drank a lot of Champale too.

At Lincoln University in the late '70s Malt Duck was the most popular beverage on campus. There would always be an enterprising student on campus who would sell it from his room. The Apple flavor would always go first, but grape was good too. I remember drinking it in 1980, but by 1981 you couldn't find it anymore in Philly. You had to buy Pink Champale after that.

Used to buy it by the quarts. Grape was the favorite of our crowd. Bought it at a High's as late as 1985. I'd love to have a quart today and see if it nearly as good as I thought it was back then! Heck, I'd love to have a "Malt Duck" t-shirt to wear as well.

Yeh, I graduated in '82 in Maryland and the girls use to drink it by the 4 pack. They like the grape best. They also used it as the excuse of why they woke up with their pants off in the morning. I loved them drinking the stuff!!!

Well down here in Texas we drank it by the gallons. Many, MANY good times and good friends were made with Red Malt Duck in hand. We really didn't care what it was made of. Wasn't it made by Schlitz? I worked in a bar in the early 80's and we couldn't keep enuff in stock. I'm thinking it came off the Schlitz truck. OMG....the memories......sigh.....

I remember my fellow accounting classmates in class after an early drinking period of malt ducks. It definitly made accounting more exciting. Here's to the early 80's.

Yep, bought it all the way up thru 88!! used to buy it by the truckload and get hammered!!! I have been scouring the web and cant even find a picture of the stuff. I wish I could get that old apple malt duck HIGH again!!!!!

had a pic of the grape lable, but i can't put it in here. But I did find out it was made by National Brewing company until 91

I remember grabing a couple cases of grape and going to the rocky horror picture show. good times, good times

Yeah those were the good old in the late 70's Early 80's in South Tx...Us guys and gals would grab 2 or 3 sixpacks and a box of duncan donuts and it was a night at "DonutPark" as we call it..lol

In Minnesota in the late 70's, that was the best for us under age drinkers, also sloe gin and "mad dog 20" (Mogan David)

I'm from Louisiana, and Red Grape Malt Duck was my drink of choice in the 80's. Those were the days - grabbing an 8 pack (or two, or three) and heading to the lake... Malt Duck was so good, and the pony size kept the drink from getting hot before you could finish it. Great times. Why can't someone manufacture it again???

In Weatherford, Ok Red Grape Malt Duck was the choice of many a freshman girl. Yep, them pony bottles were just right to give your date that did not like the taste of beer

I too was a Malt Duck drinker, I've been searching for it for years...why do they always have to take the good things in life away from us!!!! They took away Choc-O-Mint Schnapps too, it's sad times in America.

I remember Matl Duck! If you were new to it, it would have you throwin' up - but it was good...