Did They Drink Real Beer On Cheers? | HPL

Alyona sits down with John Ratzenberger to talk about the glory days of 'Cheers.'

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[chrismaggio]

I hoped he would respond by saying "Eeh, not a lot of people know this but..."

[master-kqnw]

Only one beer can drink not non stop actors

[Ogrematic]

What? You're Not supposed to drink at work?!
(shuffleshuffle)
No, nothing, no reason, why?

[mac]

So if they rarely drank beer, what was in the glass normally? Seems like a logical follow up question.

[emirares]

Yeah not suprising.. very rarely only for Cliff :D

[lostintime]

You know when you think about it that's a really stupid question. Do you drink while you work?

[joemckim]

Norm would down those beers a little too easily for them to be real beers. Even alcoholics as bad as Norm can't down entire beers in a single drink every time.

[Dane_Youssef]

It was non-alcoholic beer. They put salt tablets in the beer to give it a foamy head under the studio lights. But once in a while, they had a real beer.

[thomaspatt]

Cliff never drank henikens, he was a bud verylight man.