Posted on 08/03/2024 4:26:08 PM PDT by chickenlips
The Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company was one America's Largest beer producer. Creaters of Schlitz Beer (the Beer that made Milwakee Famous) the brand was beloved by many until the mid 1970s when attempts to cut production cost resulted in a gradual drop in quality eventually leading to it's decline.
Those intrested in the companies fall will find a summery of events from it's founding until it's eventual fall in the early 1980s. This video also delves into the Hawaiian Beer Primo that was brought by Schlitz and could have served as a warning.
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This was on a DVD, but...I couldn’t get it quite right. It only has to be a tiny bit off, and your brain sees it.
The early ‘Laverne and Shirley’ seasons were excellent. Good, clean comedy. In Season 6 they moved the location from Milwaukee to Burbank, California. That’s when the series went downhill.
As is often the case, it was supporting actors who really made the show pop.
Lenny and Squiggy
Cops arrested a scantily dressed woman for shoplifting beer from a 7-11. She had Schlitz up her dress.
This reminds me that I used to have a really cool Schlitz Malt Liquor sign. I don't remember what I did with it. I wouldn't have thrown it away and I'd remember if I gave it away, so unless my wife threw it away, it's stored somewhere around here. I'll have to look for it. I have a retirement office that would be nice place for it.
“First ya Schlitz, then ya Piels...”
Freegards
“It’ll make your jimmy thicker...Schlitz.. premium malt liquor.”
Ice Cube, hustling Schlitz to the hip urban youth...
When you’re down to Schmitz you’re out of beer
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Not exactly….they did go cheap, by using less barley in exchange for corn syrup and used hops pellets rather than fresh hops. Yes, both were less expensive. In addition they changed the fermentation process by heating the brew instead of the normal Bavarian process. Ultimately, it resulted in the beer forming a haze when chilled. Then they added silica to the beer to stop the haze and it formed a weird sort of gel formed in the top of the beer that beer drinkers called snot. It killed their market. They lost a lot of money and then their ceo?.? Uihlein died of cancer. They sold to Steph’s, but Schlitzed was so poorly run it not only killed Schlitzed, but took Steph’s down with it.
Certainly not English....
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Wow! There are 5 mistakes in one sentence. A spell checker might have caught the first one.
You would’ve loved Blatz.
I drank Schlitz, before the quality went downhill, thought it was better than Bud. Also, dark Schlitz was great, but there was limited distribution. A couple of bars in N.Fl had it in the early 70s but I never came across it otherwise.
Schlitz and Anheuser-Busch were neck and neck through the 50s & 60s as far as production. Interestingly Ballantine Ale was frequently in the #3 spot.
Carling Black Label used to be big too.
“A light, clean tasting blond lager,
with a subtle hint of hops.”
I recently binge-watched “Better Call Saul”. And one character sure looked familiar. He looked like an older Lenny. And by golly, it was Lenny!
Pity they couldn’t work Squiggy into the script.
LOL. Never liked that either.
Intellectually, I know its juevenile to judge a product by its name, but its also hard not to do. Especially for beer and soft drinks.
Probably my favorite beer these days is Samuel Adams.
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