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...

MALT DUCK, THE DRINK OF THE EARLY 80'S!!!!! Up here in Minnesota, remember many of times back in school, '81 to '82, my friend and i and our girlfriends would get a few of the 8pk ponys and hit the gravel roads partying with the duck :) :) :) GOOD TIMES, Wish they would bring it back into cirulation. Malt Duck Forever!!!!!

in tulsa during the eighties it was our choice beer..grape malt duck and midnight showings of rocky horror picture show. would love to have some again

Let me tell how we played it in Chi-town! I remember three flavors-Red Grape, White Grape & Apple. Good Grief what garbage it was! Maybe that's the reason I spent five years in High School! Lane Tech rock!

The good ole days of grape and apple malt ducks. Every one of us had mullets (guys) (well some of the girls also who hadn't figured out what they were yet lol) driving to the pit or hiding out from the cops under a bridge and drinking away. Taking dead, dried catfish and hiding it under the car seat of someone you didn't like on a hot summer day. Being thankful that wasn't the car you took to the drive in to watch movies and being stored in the trunk. Oh and the best was going to Vagt's barn and listening to rock bands with those little ducks. You could hide them away so well from the sheriff's deputy (not Barney Fife).

1976 prom nite apple n grape need i say more had a great nite.do they still make it anywhere i sure would buy it.

I'm from Northern Indiana. Graduated H.S. in 84. We use to buy this by the 7 oz. all the time. The local liquor store would get this for us or who ever bought it for us in 24 count cases.. Grape mostly but apple was ok also. I have tried a few mixtures but not the same. Wish someone would start making it again as well... Have not seen it around here since 86 if I remember correctly... Good stuff though. 80's ruled for sure......

I remember drinking grape Malt Duck around late summer of 1979. I was only sixteen and an older friend had bought it back when the legal drinking age was only 18. I got pretty toasted on it, but I was definitely a light weight when it came to alcohol at age 16. I liked it alot better than regular beer. I distinctly remember looking up at the ceiling from the floor after a few bottles. Too bad you can't buy it anymore.

..oh yea. I also remember hearing the song "Gold" by Jon Stewart and Stevie Nicks playing over the stereo the night I first got toasted on grape Malt Duck back in 1979. It was a new song at the time.

We had our dorm size fridge stock w/this stuff...back in '82. As we listen to Get Down On It by Kool and The Gang & Eye Of The Tiger by Survivor...before our Temple football games.

New years eve 1984........ouch! Me and my friends loved Red Grape Malt Duck. I've been wondering for years what ever happened to it. We drank it here in KC every weekend just out cruisin' or playing miniature golf and video games at the arcade. Ahhhhhhh, the good old days.

OMG My friend Tia and I used to buy a case of the Red Grape Malt Duck in Arkansas and take a road trip. We took a wrong turn once in '84 and ended up in Lousiana! We were planning on ending up in Memphis! Oops. Good times.

I remember drinking Malt Duck in the late'70's, early '80's. Liked the red grape, don't remember drinking the apple version. I always tried to have a quart ot two stashed in the 'fridge. It was like drinking grape juice, with a kick to it. I remember the good times when my buddies and I would buy a load of it and hit the back roads on a road trip. It's sad that Malt Duck isn't around anymore.

I was talking to my best friend from high school ,class of '81,today And Malt Duck came up in our conversation. We googled it and look where we are!We started drinking it because it was cheap, of course back then you could clean out the sofa grab some Malt Duck and fill your tank! We lived in the Dallas area and would go to the discount liquor store by White Rock lake and cruise around the lake. Everytime 'Freak out' played on the radio we'd jump out of my Pinto and boogie! GREAT DRINK, GREAT TIMES!

Matl Duck was made by the G. Heileman (sp?)Co. of Lacrosse, WI. The brewery shut down in 1996.

I loved malt duck.The grape was the best.I am from wa. state and when I heard they were going to quit selling it I bought the 5 cases they had left.I wish they would make it again.

Man, spent many a night toasted off that little bottle. It came up in a conversation today, hit google and here I am............

I can't BELIEVE I found this thread!!! Growing up in central PA (grad. '80), we had 2 cheap drinks of choice... Old Milwaukee "Pounders" (16 oz. cans) 6-pack for $1.95, and MALT DUCK!!! LOVED that stuff. Used to hide cases of the pony's in my parents basement. Then one day my Mom came out of the house drinking an apple... she loved it. My choice was the grape... would also buy quarts and cruise around listening to Black Sabbath... those were the days!!!

WOW! A lot of Malt Duck lovers out there! In MN, I enjoyed the grape at many a bon fire parties in the late 80s. Drank it in the small ponies, which was perfect, because they were cold to the last drop! Delicious drink, wasn't too sweet, or too bitter, just right! I wish I could have a taste of that delectable beverage. Perhaps the sweet life, times, and culture of the 80s made it what it was? Drinking from glass and not aluminum sure made a difference too. If anyone out there has a recipe, please share. Or if anyone works in the alcohol/beverage business, use your influence to get this going again. I think it would be a big success in the upper Midwest! Until then, I guess we'll have to dream about the good old times and the great tasting Malt Duck!

Malt Duck's what we bought the girls in the late 70's to mid 80's to party on,that or TJ Swann Easy Nights,and I do mean easy .In kansas you could drink 3.2 beer when you turned 18 until around 85 or so,we drank PBR by the gallons,$5.00 all you could drink in the beer clubs ,anyway malt duck must have been offered at 3.2 or lower for us to buy it.

easy grape duck recipe-half cup grape juice, half cup sprite ,1 cap full everclear. mm mm good ..

Amazing what kind of memories that malt duck can conjure up! I grew up in upstate of S.C., grad.'82, I remember drinking malt duck for the first time when we had a bonfire party, I was 15! It really was pretty tasty stuff and cheap too!

yes i grew up in the 80s and malt duck was the bomb here in kansas. I WISH THEY STILL HAD IT

I'D LIKE TO ORDER A "DELICIOUS RED GRAPE MALT DUCK FOR MY LADY" . . . that used to be a commercial on the radio when I was first enjoying it . . and that was in the mid 70's. I still have one of the pony bottles where some of my ashes will be some day. AHH . . the good old days of Malt Duck.

Smitty, please take a picture of your Malt Duck bottle. I searched all over the Internet and can't find a single pic! You have a collector's item for sure. I am not sure if I miss Malt Duck itself but I sure miss the fun times me an my friends had cruisin' around and drinking it in Kansas.

Malt Duck WOW!!! Brings back memories. Piling into my sisters boyfriends 1980 Black Trans-Am on a cold winter day with a case of Schlitz and a case of Malt Duck in the back floorboard heading to the beach, man what a day!!!!! Till 007(aka)MOM bust us in the driveway as we are driving off saw the Booze and then still let us go!!!!!

MAN! THE STUPID SO-CALLED LIQUOR STORES NEED TO REINSTATE CHAMPLAE. IT WILL MAKE A KILLING. AND BRING BACK ALL THE FLAVORS, PINK, GOLDEN AND ALL THE RESEST. I MISS MY CHAMPALE.

aaaaahhhh Malt Duck I remember it well and I sure wish it was still around. My older brother introduced me to it when he lived in northern Indiana and I used to go up there for visits. I was still in high school at the time living in the middle of nowhere in a dry county in Arkansas (20 mile drive one-way to buy booze of any kind) but they had the grape and apple Malt Duck in the pony bottles. They made it in quarts also. It certainly wasn't a limited distribution product if I could get it where I lived then. I graduated HS in '87 and don't think I've seen it since.

That stuff was great.With companys tring to market ways for us to spend money do any of them read sites like this one.Bring back the Duck clothes/and other items.I dont know what I would spend for a case of that stuff but I know I would buy it.

Loved those little bottles!! We would get a case or two and chill on one of the piers at the reservor. What memories! ...and those little bottles were the best to chunk at signs. Oops the harmless things we did in the 70's

I was in high school in the early '80's and we would cruise liquor stores on Friday and Saturday nights, looking for "cool" people to score us our malt duck. We would get wasted on that stuff and puke it up on the street. I think I drank so much of it that I probably now have an aversion to it. It was fun, but I don't have a desire to drink it again. Fun times!

OK. I too have some great memories of 80's high school nights with Malt Duck, Ruffles Chips & French Onion Dip. What more did anyone need to party! Smooth tasting, like juice. But then you couldn't walk! Loved it. Miss it. Want it.

I remember me and Barry, So. Cal. in the early 80's drinking Grape Malt Duck, feeling real good and doing our thing! The one taste I'll never get out of my mind. God, how I wish I could have it just once more!

Class of 87!! Love that stuff, My friends and I was slip away to "DENMONDS" every chance we could get and get us all they had. Take to lake and party like there was no tomorrow!! Wish they would make if again, it's almost as good as "Strawberry Wine!!" please contact me if anyone ever finds 254-625-1825 **Lisa**

Red Grape was it! I remember it from 81-83. One night in high school I was driving my brother's '69 Grand Prix on Purdue's campus with this girl I was after and her best friend and I got pulled over by a cop. Two drunk girls giggling in the front seat and half a case on the floor in the back. I told the cop a good story, he took the rest of the Duck, and off we drove. Those were the days...

I just found out through this site that they stopped making Malt Duck. I was asking some of my co-workers if they knew of a place that sold Malt Duck and they say they've never heard of it. That's because they grew up in the 90's & not the 80's. The next best thing to Malt Duck was Pink & Golden Champale. Now they still make Golden Champale but not Pink. If anyone ever locates the stuff put the info on the site.

Based on these posts, Malt Duck was surely the drink of choice in the 80s! I'm guilty as well! I graduated HS in '83 and most of that year and '82 was spent imbibing on Friday and Saturday nights in South Carolina--cruising the McDonalds and the Taco Uno(remember those?); I'm embarrassed to admit that my friends and I used to take the caps off each Duck we drank and place them on the teeny-tiny dashboard of our 60-something VW Bugs(which were the cars of choice in our clique then). Remarkably I think I counted 16 BOTTLE CAPS on that dash one night. I was like Kool-Aid! Shame on me...and my kids are NEVER going to hear that story from me! I'd LOVE to get a MALT DUCK Tee, so if anyone has any ideas how or where, let me know! Thanks for the memories!

Wow! My best friend and I drank Malt Duck in Philly from late 70's to bout 81. Apple was the best. We would get a couple of Qt's on Sat mornings and watch Black Belt theather. The best thing about malt duck were the radio ads for it. The ads went: "How to order a Malt Duck", First practice saying it in the mirror, and then march off to your local party store and order your cold Malt Duck. I cleverly used ad to get an A on an English project. The Prof. almost took it back when he read my report aloud and a couple haters from NJ,NY and Pa, reconized it and threw me under the train. Ahh!!! Those were the days.

I'm from Myrtle Beach SC, I grew up in the 70's and we tore some Malt Duck up!!!!!!! That stuff was soooo good! wish they woul bring it back

We would but it by the flats and go to the creek, didn't really matter which one, we had several cool spots to just go hang out, tan, swim, listen to the radio and drink our Malt Duck. Those were the days.

I remember cruising around every weekend in the 80's drinking Malt Duck. I saved one label from back then and still have it. They came off real easy and after several Malt Ducks, they were plastered all over the place.

Malt Duck was a favorite here in California too. It was a party staple until 1987. Then it vanished. It complemented make out parties at Party Rock and KNAC 105.5 radio!

I remember Malt Duck and wish someone would bring back another fruit flavored beer like that. Some described it as a cross between a wine and a beer. Does anyone know where some recipes are?

Wow. Does Malt Duck bring back some great memories. I'm Not crazy about beer , not crazy about wine or hard liquor but some Malt Duck would be the greatest...

Started drinking with malt duck, used to love that small bottle.. think they had it in quarts.. Malt duck and golden campale.. the good ole dayzs

Being 21 in 1979, Malt Duck and Las Vegas. Use your imagination.

STARTED DRINKIG MALT DUCK AND LOVED IT.THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS. I REMEMBER A TRIP TO THE LAKE WITH MY SISTER AND OUR BOYFRIENDS. WE TOOK 7 CASES OF MALT DUCK AND NEEDLESS TO SAY IT WENT REALLY QUICK. I WISH THEY WOULD BRING IT BACK.

I wasn't nearly old enough to drink, but i remember my uncle bringing home some of the apple when I was about 12. I have been looking for it for the last 12 years, and I'm really sad that they don't make it any more. maybe I can find some on an auction site! LOL!

Summer of '79. Trolling for fun in Alexandria Virginia in my buddy's black/orange Mustang Cobra. Music blaring from the AM radio. Two 55 air conditioning. Stopping at Highs and trying to get someone to buy us some grape malt duck. I remember 4 packs and 8 packs. Tasted like grape kool-aid, but with a monster kick. Great memories.

MALT DUCK -- 1981 -- Winter of my Sophomore year. My best friend Rhonda and I always had us a stash of good ole grape malt duck tucked safely in the end of a ditch drain down "river road". It was the BEST way to cap off the Friday night varsity basketball games. It would never freeze solid but got pretty slushy. Hee Hee

One certain friend and I loved this stuff in the apple! She ended up working in the defense department until the new administration. the guys would drink "mad dog" and the girls had the malt duck. We knew we'd get WAY stupid with a B*&^% of a headache if we went hard core with the mad dog!!

Growing up and going to college in northern Indiana (78-81) Malt Duck was always the drink of choice and I was kind of secretly hoping that in some obscure part of the world the stuff was still being made and available. I preferred the grape over the apple but they were both good (what wasn't when you were underage and sneaking the stuff into your dorm room?)

Malt duck. Oh the memories. Pick up 12 ponies, a bag of Ruffles, some french onion dip and get blasted = instant party. Great Friday and Saturday night memories from the late 70's-early 80's.

An eight pack of Malt Duck was always the drink of choice for your date while we drank RWB or Old Milwaukee Lite in high school. Graduated in 85 and it was around in the Omaha area at that time.

I remember malt ducks I have ask alot of people they don't remember them but I sure do.I have recently found this drink called Joose they really remind me of malt ducks if anybody out there reading this the purple joose ia alot like malt duck.

In Brooklyn we used to drink Apple Malt Duck. I remember the first time I tried weed We chased it with Apple Malt Duck. As 8th graders we felt big time

Red Grape Malt Duck was a fine, tasty alcoholic beverage I drank in the mid 1980s. It tasted like grape candy, and provided a nice little buzz. I remember buying the quart bottles at a liquor store near my house back in the day. The next day, my whiz would smell like Red Grape Malt Duck.

Yes...great memories. Newly divorced in early 80s. Great times with Apple Malt Duck. I'd love to have one right now.

can you find malt duck anywhere?