Posted on 11/11/2018 8:54:19 AM PST by Olog-hai
Little of which is even palatable. IMHO.
There are still contract brewers in Wisconsin. Billy Busch has been talking about building one for Kraftig. Might make more money sense if someone else was helping pay the rent.
Beer snobs are the worst, they’ve given us ale as a mainstream drink. Tastes like Colt. Piss, not 45.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anheuser-Busch_brands
Budweiser
1.1 Bud Light
1.2 Bud Light Platinum
1.3 Bud Light Apple
1.4 Bud Light Lime
1.5 Bud Light Lime-A-Ritas
1.6 Budweiser Select
1.6.1 Budweiser Select 55
1.7 Budweiser 66
1.8 Budweiser 1933 Repeal Reserve
1.9 Bud Ice
1.10 Bud Extra
1.11 Budweiser/Bud Light Chelada
1.12 Budweiser Prohibition Brew
1.13 Budweiser NA
1.14 Discontinued
1.14.1 Budweiser American Ale
1.14.2 Budweiser Brew Masters’ Private Reserve
1.14.3 Bud Dry
1.14.4 Bud Ice Light
1.14.5 Bud Light Golden Wheat
1.14.6 Bud Silver
2 Michelob
2.1 Brand variation
2.2 Marketing
3 Rolling Rock
4 Busch
5 Shock Top
6 Natural
7 Johnny Appleseed
8 LandShark Lager
9 Craft Ownership
9.1 Goose Island Brewery
9.2 Blue Point
9.3 10 Barrel
9.4 Elysian Brewing Company
9.5 Golden Road Brewing
9.6 Four Peaks Brewery
9.7 Breckenridge Brewery
9.8 Devils Backbone Brewing Company
9.9 Karbach Brewing Company
9.10 Wicked Weed Brewing
10 Malt liquors
10.1 King Cobra
10.2 Hurricane
10.3 Spykes
11 Others
But they are finally starting to return to their roots. Their new thought process is creating a step away from the counter culture of the 70’s and 80’s that introduced urban hipsters as the spotlight consumers of the product.
But in the 2000’s they have converted their marketing to the sponsorship of indie music, local businesses, facial hair clubs (RVA Beard League), post-collegiate sports teams,[ dive bars and radio programming like National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. The company encourages fan art to be submitted online, which is subsequently shown on the beer’s official Facebook page.
Since 1844, Pabst Brewing Company has been American-owned and operated, and is North America’s largest privately held brewing company. Pabst’s portfolio includes iconic brands with deep ties to America’s heritage, including its flagship Pabst Blue Ribbon and others such as Lone Star, Rainier, Ballantine IPA, Schlitz, Old Style, National Bohemian, Stag, Stroh’s, and Old Milwaukee.
Pabst and it’s other brands are brewed in different countries in the world. For instance In Canada, Pabst Blue Ribbon is brewed by Sleeman Breweries of Guelph, Ontario (although credited as ‘Stroh Canada’ on the labeling. They make two different beers there that contain a 4.9% and a 5.9% alcohol level. In China, the Pabst brewery is located in Zhaoqing, Guangdong. They produce a beer called Pabst Blue Ribbon 1844 at that location.
So with their new marketing programs and increased efforts to contact with a more diverse group, they have rebounded. And they are doing it the old fashioned way, they are earning it. And that is how capitalism actually works. It’s called better products and service through competition. I’m not a big fan of their product, and Rainier is a major product brewed in the area I live in, but I appreciate their efforts to succeed.
rwood
PBR...cornhole...coincidence? I think not. Look, Pabst was a serviceable midwestern lager (serve it cold) like Falstaff, or Stag, or the Southern beers. (Jax, Dixie, Pearl) I think the modern equivalent is “Natty Light”. Craft lager is fine, but once beer drinkers start going on about flavor profiles, oakiness and a grassy finish, or tell you to let your beer warm up before drinking it(???!!@%#?) I’m outta here.
I drink more expensive ales on special occasions.
But GCA is my every day beer of late.
Use to be Stegmaieir (use to almost cost half as much as Bud) is another under appreciated beer
Never could stand Pabst. It was as bad as Schlitz.
ha!
PBR uses high fructose corn syrup for a sweetener. The health food nuts consider high fructose corn syrup to be a bad choise for the human body. Coke also uses high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener. When I was a teenager I drank lots of sugar sweetened Coke and I considered PBR to be a great beer.
Stag was great beer, and contract brewed 9-0-5 at their Belleville brewery. Hot day, ice chest heaven.
If your contract is up, or it has a clause that one party can terminate, and you have no contingency plans in place, that’s your mismanagement.
Sounds like Pabst put itself in the Walmart dependency situation...
It is still being brewed. I had some tall boys on Friday.
Yes! That’s it. It cost 69 rubles (about $1) a can.
Pabst Brewing Inc. Portfolio
http://pabst.com/portfolio/
PBR
Small Town Brewing
Old Milwaukee
Tsingtao
Colt 45
Lone Star
Old Style
Rainer
Schlitz
National Bohemian Beer
Olympia
Stroh’s
Stag
St. Ides
Champale
Special Export
Schaefer
Schmidt’s
Pearl
Blatz
Schlitz Malt Liquor
$4.99 for 16 oz’ers. No pretense at all. Lol . Don’t get me wrong, I like the expensive stuff too, but...I am not a Rockefeller...
Check out “Beer Wars”. It’s fascinating. Most of the craft beers on supermarket shelves are ones that have been bought by the big guys. They buy up everything and they run the supermarket shelves with an iron fist. Yuengling has managed to stay independent and still be on the shelves, but they are the exception and not the rule.
isn’t it a Russian owned company now?
Six pack..
In Georgia at least, the distribution business is a the most crooked pile of rent-seeking you ever saw. They have gobs of money, and they buy lots of legislators.
https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2017/07/07/two-more-tabc-officials-bite-the-dust
Following the revelations of wide-spread agency corruption and irresponsible spending, two more big-wigs at the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission announced on Thursday they’re leaving the agency.
The latest to go include TABC chief of enforcement, Earl Pearson, and head of internal affairs, Andy Peña. They join three other agency leaders who have stepped down so far this year: executive director Sherry Cook who left in May, Commissioner Steven Weinberg, and the organization’s top lawyer, Emily Helm.
TABC’s housecleaning began earlier this year after investigations by the Texas Tribune showed that the department had spent $85,000 in taxpayer money on out-of-state travel since 2011, gave all-expense-paid cars to top officials, and shirked it’s own rules — by selling alcohol without obtaining a permit —during TABC’s swanky conference of state liquor administrators in California.
More probing found that during this conference and others, top TABC officials were receiving “hazardous duty pay,” an increased paycheck usually given to state employees doing risky stuff — not just schmoozing with fellow booze officials. In response, the Texas Legislature blocked the agency from any “non-essential” out-of-state travel for the next two years.
Yet the department continues to unravel. Just last week, a lawsuit brought by Houston-based Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods showed that the TABC threatened to effectively kill the company with a $713 million fine and pulling their permit, for unclear reasons. After eight days of hearings and a multi-year prosecution, a panel of Texas administrative law judges could find only one reason why the TABC had hit the the company with such an outrageous penalty— because they were a couple days late in paying an invoice to one wine supplier. At most, according to the judges in the case, this kind of blunder should have stuck Spec’s with a simple warning, and no fines.
During his ten-year tenure at TABC, Peña led any in-house investigations against department employees. His alleged record of shielding top officials from punishment, including executive director Cook, stuck him with the nickname “Captain Cover-Up,” according to the Tribune...
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