Red, White and Blue Marketing (Pabst is Largest, Last American Brewer)

JSOnline ^ | July 16, 2008 | Tom Daykin

[grellis]

We're trying to do all-natural, single berry wines this year, and it is proving tricky. Mulberry Revenge was a cinch--I found two saplings on a river trail and picked five pounds in less than 30 minutes. Chokeberries are proving difficult, because the Mourning Doves want them as badly as I do (I still need another pound). I haven't found another local source of chokeberries yet. I've only harvested half the necessary rose hips I need so far, but there is a public garden close by. If worse comes to it, I can probably contact the gardener and get the AOK to do a little pillaging. We've never made rose hip wine before, so I'm looking forward to that one.

Ritz cracker. Cream cheese. Pepper jelly. YUM! :)

And washed down with a tasty cold brew...heaven! Especially in this humidity!

[manic4organic]

Shiner Bock, 99, Kolsch, etc. from TEXAS.

[commonguymd]

First beer I ever drank was Olympia in a very small can when my father took me on a motorcycle ride through the hills in SW Wisconsin - probably 9 years old. I would buy Olympia.

[Pyro7480]

I got to tour their original brewery in Pottsville, Pennsylvania with my sister last November. It was neat. Not only is it free, you get a free sample of beer afterwards!

[tdscpa]

I think that was the most seen beer commercial on TV when I was young.

However, I grew up very close to Colorado. I was weened on Coors, and always reached up to the tavern drive-through window from my bicycle seat to put my quarters up there and get a six-pack.

Then, I went away to college and learned to drink BUD. It was said Lawrence, KS was the 2nd largest consumer location of Budweiser in the country, after St. Louis.

[Ron in Acreage]

Excellent. I love their Lager. Drink it all the time. And it’s pretty cheap too. About $8.99 to $10.99 a 12 pack here in south florida. Costco carries it sometimes for about $16 a case. Great stuff.

[ikka]

Please report back if it tastes like something other than diluted urine.

Ummmm... how do you know what diluted urine tastes like? Just wondering ...

[kailbo]

I’m sitting about 5 blocks from there right now. Drive by on my way to work most days.

[kailbo]

“I believe Yuengling is owned by Bud.”

That is incorrect. Dick Yuengling still owns and operates the company.

[Pyro7480]

Neat! Pottsville is nice-looking town.

[TexasCajun]

If you want to know America's reaction, there will be no better indication than the reception Kasey Kayne in his #9 Budweiser car get this weekend at Indianapolis.

[TexasCajun]

"Have fun Kasey! "

[K-oneTexas]

Decades ago I worked at the Pasbt Brewery in Perry, GA. They had a ‘brand’ then called “Red, White & Blue” ... it was pretty good. Better, I think, that their flagship bottle.

[shove_it]

I'll drink to that! Yuengling is America's oldest brewer. It's distributed only in the East though.

Great website: http://www.yuengling.com/distrib.htm

[lormand]

To each his own, but I have never liked American style "beer".

Long live quality and taste, i.e., the American Craft Brewer.

[stuartcr]

I remember when they built the brewery in Tampa. All Busch Gardens was, was a restaurant with a tied up tiger out front.

[Pyro7480]

Georgia and New England are strangely outside of their distribution.

[stuartcr]

The regular Leinies are good, but that Sunset Wheat...I couldn’t give it away.

[CT-Freeper]

drink yuengling

Yuengling is one of my favorites. Sadly, it isn't sold here in Connecticut yet. I usually pick up a few cases when I'm in Philadelphia watching the Mets beat up the Phillies, though ;-)

[Crapgame]

See my tag line....I love it at this time of year mixed with a little V-8 or Snappy Tom. Especially when I’m at Male Domestic Action Station #1. Also known as the grill....with some Johnny Bush or Johnny Russell on the CD player..