Natural Light Beer Makes Your Drinking Dreams Come True With Its 77-Pack Photo: Anheuser-Busch When you were in college and it was your turn to buy beer, you probably grabbed a 30-pack (or two) of your favorite brew. That way, even in the midst of a raucous game of beer pong or flip cup, you wouldn’t have to make a run to the local supermarket or neighborhood bodega. But what if you didn’t have to buy multiple 30 packs and you could just grab 77 beers at once? Well, Natural Light is making your boozy dream a reality. The craft beer renaissance has given rise to a great number of high-quality, boundary-pushing, unique beers. Craft beer fans offer drinkers countless choices and there are great craft breweries in all 50 states. Do you live in Northern California? Stop by Lagunitas or Russian River to get your beer fix. Happen to reside in Tampa, Florida? Cigar City has made quite a name for itself in the last few years. Even if you live in Iowa (Toppling Goliath) or Indiana (Three Floyds), there’s a great brewery only a few hours drive away. Not everyone has a taste for craft beer. When you turned 21, the odds are you didn’t try one of those beers (and still might not even care for them). Since you hadn’t yet refined your palate, you’d be just as happy to crack open a can of Pabst, Milwaukee’s Best, or Keystone. You can’t buy any of those in a 77 pack. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, as a nod to the year of our creation, 1977, we give you………………….the 77 pack. Limited time only in College Park, MD. pic.twitter.com/jm19DHVmoG — Natural Light (@naturallight) October 5, 2018 Anheuser-Busch announced via Twitter that it would release a 77-pack of Natural Light, the beer many fraternities and value beer drinkers lovingly refer to as “Natty,” in honor of the brand’s 77th birthday. You’re probably saying, “This is too good to be true!” Well, you’re right because, sadly, this 924 fluid ounces of magical, sparkling beer will only be available in College Park, Maryland. If you didn’t know it already, this is where the University of Maryland is located. We have a feeling there will be a lot more “Natty Light” flowing at campus parties soon.<doc-sep>COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Only in a college town could cases of beer not be enough. >> Read more trending news So, Natural Light created a 77-pack of beer to honor its creation in 1977 and is offering it in a limited release only in College Park, Maryland. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, as a nod to the year of our creation, 1977, we give you………………….the 77 pack. Limited time only in College Park, MD. pic.twitter.com/jm19DHVmoG — Natural Light (@naturallight) October 5, 2018 For the mathematicians, there are 38 cans on the base, 19 on the second layer, 17 on the third and three on top. Wow, calm down Beautiful Mind. 38 on the base, 19 on the second layer, 17 on third and 3 on top with some packaging inside to hold everything in place — Natural Light (@naturallight) October 9, 2018 And it weighs 65 pounds. There is a warning label. Distributors started delivering them around the college town last Friday. The pack, which features a special plastic lining that can hold ice like a cooler, has already sold out, the Baltimore Sun reports. Have you ever seen anything more beautiful? pic.twitter.com/DUY9fTRodr — Barstool UMD (@barstoolUMD) October 6, 2018 The 77-pack of beer affectionately called "Natty," and known for its entry level price point, is selling for around $30, the Baltimore Sun reports. Distributors only expect to have them available for a couple more weeks. "It was selling out as our guys were delivering it off the trucks," Eric Best, general manager for a Maryland-area beer distributor, told the Baltimore Sun. He said they distributed about 200 of the packs and expect to deliver more soon. Best told the Sun the beer maker chose the area because it was one of the brand's first markets when it launched in 1977. Natural Light did not comment. More news from KIRO 7 DOWNLOAD OUR FREE NEWS APP Cox Media Group<doc-sep>To make matters even more ridiculous, Natty Light is selling this bad boy for a very cool $30.99 (Rovell prices it at $34.99 above, but both BroBible and Whiskey Riff have confirmed a SRP of $30.99). That's roughly 40 cents a beer, which Anheuser Busch brews by wringing out brewery mops into aluminum cans. Unfortunately for the rest of America's card-carrying townies and college degenerates, the 77-can chugzilla is exclusive to College Park for now, but nonetheless a few in-the-wild sightings are starting to trickle in. Gotta love that "Warning: You May Need a Spotter" badge. Like, do you even lift bro?<doc-sep>Photo : Chatri Attanatwong ( iStock ) Natural Light is to college parties as seedy couches are to college parties. And the beer brand, owned by Anheuser-Busch, totally embraces this with its new 77-pack of cans, available exclusively around the College Park, Maryland area (home to the University Of Maryland). Advertisement The limited-edition packaging is a nod to the birth year of Natty Light—1977—and will hit stores in the next few days. A College Park liquor store I spoke to confirmed it would be receiving the 77-pack “today or tomorrow,” and that it would retail for “just around $30.” Our mass-market beer taste test determined that Natty Light tastes “like regular beer that’s been passed through a Brita filter 10,000 times.” The hexagonal package warns that it is “not, not heavy.” By my math, it would weigh in around 58 pounds (12 ounces x 77 divided by 16 ounces per pound). Presumably, it could then double as makeshift frat-house furniture, or an impromptu ice chest to hold more cold Natties. Godspeed, Terrapins.<doc-sep>
When buying multiple cans of beer, the most common packaging sizes are 6-, 12-, and 24-packs. Mathematically, that system is sound. Yes, the 18-pack occasionally has its place. And hip craft brewers have had a recent affinity for the 4-pack. Of course, if a case isn’t enough, the 30-pack has proven popular. Heck, brewers have even unleashed crazy sizes like the 60-, 99-, and 1,000-pack… pretty much for no other reason than they could. Still, all these sizes make sense in their own special way… but the 77-pack? Natural Light says, why not? Late last week, the Anheuser-Busch-produced brand Natural Light announced on Twitter that it would be introducing a limited-time-only 77-pack of 12-ounce cans available exclusively in College Park, home of the University of Maryland. Why 77 beers? The strange number certainly isn’t for logistical reasons. Instead, Natty Light writes that the literally odd amount is “a nod to the year of our creation, 1977.” As for how you fit 77 beers—a number with only 7 and 11 as factors—snuggly into a single package, well, it’s not completely clear. The large case—said to weigh 65 pounds—is hexagonal in shape. And a photo taken of the inside shows an arrangement of four hexagons of beer: 18 cans surrounding 12 cans surrounding six cans with one single can in the middle. That adds up to a layer of 37 cans. Stack a second layer on top of that and you have 74 cans. Maybe the last three cans just get tucked into the top? Sadly, that final detail is still a mystery. Luckily, we won’t have to wait long for the answer. Natural Light said that these new 77-packs would be arriving “in stores within the next few days.” And that was a few days ago.