Russians Just Bought America’s Most Beloved Crappy Beer

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Russians Just Bought America’s Most Beloved Crappy Beer Written by HILARY POLLACK September 19, 2014 / 4:15 pm Say goodbye to Pabst Blue Ribbon’s status as our nation’s most iconic cheap beer. For the past 170 years, Pabst Blue Ribbon has been a staple in the diets of American college students, starving artists, and broke drunks. And it’s likely to maintain that status for years to come—but it will now be in the hands of Russians....

[TexasCajun]

Yep, that’s why I posted it. ...not just for the backstory. hehe

[freedumb2003]

>>Really, all beer tastes bad, just some taste less bad. After five or six.... What difference does it make!<<

Benghazi Beer?

[TexasCajun]

So, is MillersCoors the last of the large US owned breweries?

I know Bud was sold to the Germans a few years back?

[freedumb2003]

There are worse beers. Much worse......................

Named for the sound you make when spitting it out after the first sip...

[ErnBatavia]

When I was growing up in the 50's, the father of the kid across the street drank close to a case a day...so he bought the cheap sh*t:

[Argus]

Pabst on draft is damn good beer.

[W.]

Crappy brew? Colt .45, Olde English 800, any 40-dog headache in a screwtop. Best poured out upon homie's grave, let him suffer that horse piss!

Want a great Malt Liquor, brewed right and 7.60% to boot? Get thee hence to the bottle shop!

Had some awhile back, and at the top of the label it actually had the words "Malt Liquor" but there is a difference, trust me...

[freedumb2003]

I’ll amend my vote. Worst beer in the history of the world:

Esker Alt, brewed by Slab City Brewing Co., in Bondule, Wisconsin. Sold in half gallon jugs.

Close -- worst beer in the world:

I have tried thousands of beers from all corners of the world (except local micro-brews since I did it here). This was the worst. Slightly carbonated turpentine.

[CrazyIvan]

Anyone else remember Buckhorn? That was some nasty swill.

[Still Thinking]

Miller Lite comes to mind.

Should've just left that stuff in the horse.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Hey!!!

Besides, they won a blue ribbon in 1893!

[Organic Panic]

Poverty Chic beer.

The beatnicks and hipsters shall have it renamed “People’s Beer”

[cuban leaf]

I had a bottle of PBR about five years ago and noticed that the last half inch tasted a bit like vomit. I thought that was weird and figured it was a bad batch.

About a year later I bought another one and the exact same thing happened. I couldn’t figure it out until I was talking with a friend about it. Basically, it’s because of the way I drink beer. I nurse a beer and, actually, like my beer even more as it warms up because the flavor becomes stronger. This is why ice cream tasts overpoweringly sweet when it’s no longer frozen.

So, basically, by the time I got down to that last half inch it was warm - and I could actually taste the “nuances” of the flavor. I’ll never drink another.

[xp38]

Years ago while visiting LA there was an ad campaign for Fosters with lots of Australian images and the word imported all over them. On close examination of a Fosters can it says brewed in Canada. Yeah it’s imported but not from the country the advertising implied.

[twister881]

Used to buy PBR on base at the Package Store for $1.02 per 6-pack. Plus would get a $0.12 refund for returning to the empty bottles. Net cost $0.90, or $0.15 per beer. That was a good bargain.

[saleman]

Used to buy long neck Buds in returnable bottles when I was in college in Tuscaloosa. Forget the exact amount but after the returns it was 7.50 a case or so. About half what non-returnables were and tasted better to boot. My roommate an I figured we were being responsible with our(our parents) money.

But when you have three cases of beer just sitting around, then what is an 18 y.o. to do. Drink it.

So, if you save “half” but drink twice as much then what does that actually get you?

Run out of college is exactly what it gets you.....

[buckalfa]

"There are worse beers. Much worse"

Old fallen flag beers from Cincinnati — Burger, Hudephol and Wiedemann. Each made with pure Ohio River water. At least they kept you regular and you could get moody with hooday at Reds games.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I remember Drewry’s.
It disappeared before I was old enough...

[luvbach1]

There are worse beers. Much worse......................

Agree. I remember when Pabst Blue Ribbon sponsored boxing on TV, long before pay-per-view, it was touted as a premium beer. I used to buy it for $0.95 a six-pack at the Army PX in 1962.

[McGruff]

Los Angeles-based Metropoulos & Co. bought Pabst in 2010 for $250 million. TSG Consumer Partners LLC, a private-equity firm, will also hold a minority stake in the deal.

Founded in Milwaukee by Jacob Best in 1844, Pabst currently is based in Los Angeles and will remain there. Some of the beers the company makes include: Pabst Blue Ribbon, Schlitz, Old Milwaukee and Colt 45. Oasis Beverages produces beers, juice and energy drinks in Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine.

http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2014/09/19/pabst-brewing-co-sold-and-wont-be-coming-back-to.html