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Pabst Is Sold to Russian Beverage Company
NY Times ^ | 9/18/2014 | David Gelles

Posted on 09/18/2014 11:38:14 PM PDT by RightGeek

A Russian beverage company said on Thursday that it was acquiring the Pabst Brewing Company, which makes the Pabst Blue Ribbon beer popular with barflies and hipsters alike and other brands like Colt 45 and Old Milwaukee.

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The buyer is Oasis Beverages, a Russian brewer and beverages distributor. Backing Oasis is TSG Consumer Partners, an American private equity firm focused on consumer goods, which will take a minority stake.

“Pabst Blue Ribbon is the quintessential American brand – it represents individualism, egalitarianism and freedom of expression – all the things that make this country great,” Eugene Kashper, the chairman of Oasis Beverages, said in a statement.

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(Excerpt) Read more at dealbook.nytimes.com ...


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To: Focault's Pendulum
I put Pabst right up there with Rheingold.....which not very far up there.

The closest to it IMHO was Schmidt.

61 posted on 09/19/2014 4:26:27 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: RightGeek
Pabst
62 posted on 09/19/2014 4:40:39 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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To: RightGeek

When I go walleye fishing in Wisconsin, I buy Pabst. That stuff attracts BIG fish. Don’t ask me to explain it because I can’t. PBR = BIG fish.


63 posted on 09/19/2014 4:40:51 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: McGruff

I will always remember Genesee Cream Ale because it was the first beer I ever drank. I also remember it was warm and in the green can. I think I stole from my parents garage.
Growing up outside of Buffalo, many people drank it because it was a cheap local beer brewed in Rochester.
In Buffalo we mostly drank Labatts because the US importer was there and it was also cheap. I also drank a lot of Ol Vienna.
We used to buy those in the 7 oz bottles, known as Old Vienna splits. A bar in the Allentown section of Buffalo on Monday night’s would sell you an opened case of Rolling Rock or OV splits with ice poured all over the case. The bars walls and floor were made out of brick. They would leave metal milk crates scattered around the bar to put your empty bottles in.
I do not think they do that anymore. This was in the 80s.


64 posted on 09/19/2014 4:42:12 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963
I also drank a lot of Ol Vienna. We used to buy those in the 7 oz bottles, known as Old Vienna splits

I could pound those down. Probably my favorite beer till this day. Haven't seen them around for a long time though.

65 posted on 09/19/2014 4:51:07 AM PDT by McGruff (I'm for freedom)
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To: McGruff

I do not think they make OV any more. I had a buddy who took a road trip to Niagara Falls. I told him to pick me up a case if he could find them. He could not.

Did you ever go to MULLIGHANS Brick Bar? It was a very popular spot back in the day.


66 posted on 09/19/2014 5:17:20 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: ChiMark

“Yoo-Hoo, Mable...Black Label!”


67 posted on 09/19/2014 5:24:49 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfusbutcher)
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To: maddog55

Point Special, by the Stevens Point Brewing Company used to be darned good...heavy, but darned good!


68 posted on 09/19/2014 5:26:38 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfusbutcher)
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To: RightGeek

Red necks, white socks and Blue Ribbon beer.


69 posted on 09/19/2014 5:27:59 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (quod est Latine morositate)
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To: aomagrat
You should have tried Olympia Gold.

You had to be flexible enough to put your head between your legs to get the taste out of your mouth!

70 posted on 09/19/2014 5:29:15 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfusbutcher)
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To: DoughtyOne

DoughtyOne for President!


71 posted on 09/19/2014 5:36:26 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (quod est Latine morositate)
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To: Rodamala

Stella was never American and was not bought by InBev, it was part of Interbrew of Belgium long before the merger.


72 posted on 09/19/2014 5:39:35 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Redleg Duke

Yeech! I remember that! Regular Olympia wasn’t too bad until Miller bought them. Someone else bought the branding after that. You can’t find it anymore unless you look hard....but who wants to?

Rainier...mediocre beer at best, but they had an inspired advertising department back in the 70’s and early 80’s. They were also sold and the ads went away. So did whatever quality they had.


73 posted on 09/19/2014 5:44:14 AM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: Pontiac
Same here....Loved PBR until smelly Hippies started drinking it...
Oh well, there is still Duquense...the Prince Of Pilsners.
74 posted on 09/19/2014 5:46:25 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: Redleg Duke

If you’re out of Point, you’re out of town.


75 posted on 09/19/2014 5:50:14 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Spktyr
Stella was never American and was not bought by InBev, it was part of Interbrew of Belgium long before the merger. I was responding to this:

None of the outfits Inbev has bought so far are actual beer makers so you need not worry. :P

I never claimed it was American... the point was that Stella is beer and is under the InBev banner, one way or another.

76 posted on 09/19/2014 5:58:08 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: RightGeek

Pabst Blue Ribbon is like making love in a canoe...


77 posted on 09/19/2014 6:15:52 AM PDT by tarheelswamprat
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To: RightGeek; GeronL; Slings and Arrows

Pabbbbbbsst Red Ribbon?


78 posted on 09/19/2014 6:55:11 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: Octar
/...moved it to New Jersey; closer to the racetracks and the source of horsepiss.

HMMMM, I thought it was starting to taste like watered down clydesdale piss. Is that why there's a horse on the bottle?

79 posted on 09/19/2014 7:16:41 AM PDT by rllngrk33 (Things will continue getting worse until at least January 2017.)
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To: Pontiac

Well, Heineken rebuffed SAB Miller’s advances, so I wonder if the attempt was an effort to thwart AB InBev.


80 posted on 09/19/2014 7:19:08 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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