Posted on 07/27/2006 4:55:56 AM PDT by Dane
Last Call For Rolling Rock Beer No Longer Brewed In Latrobe
POSTED: 2:21 pm EDT July 26, 2006 UPDATED: 2:49 pm EDT July 26, 2006
LATROBE, Pa. -- Wednesday marked the last day Rolling Rock will be brewed and bottled at Latrobe Brewing Company.
The official last day for workers will be Monday.
A deal was put in place to allow Rolling Rock workers to keep their jobs.
The union approved an agreement with City Brewing on Sunday.
The Wisconsin-based company will buy the Latrobe Brewery from In-Bev USA.
The Rolling Rock beer brand was sold to Anheuser-Busch.
Production of the beer will move to Newark, N.J.
Some of my all time favorites:
PBR
Schlitz
Schaefers
Miller ponies
MGD
Utica Club
Lowenbrau
Never in a million years:
Meistro Brau
Coors lite
Matts?
Exactly.
Say what you will about Newark. I do all the time. But Newark's water is absolutely superb.
I grew up within a stone's throw of the Newark Watershed. It is some of the most unspoiled territory in New Jersey.
And I remember Mel Allen, too. He, Phil Rizzuto, and Red Barber used to call the Yankee games when baseball was worth watching / listening to.
They were great days, but this isn't a baseball thread...
Come on you Free Marketeers, why do you have your panties in a knot. It's just business. So what if you wind up with a cheap version of a once fine beer? It's about the profits that can be made not about the consumer.
I'm surpised that someone hasn't posted how glad they are that some union members are losing their jobs in the brewery.
Surely you wouldn't protest if a communist chinese company bought the brand and the brewery and shipped the beer in from over seas. Now that would be the kind of outsourcing you could get into.
Why does a Busch produced beer remind me of the old story about "Billy Beer" marketed by Jimmy Carter's brother Billy ... a sample of Billy beer was sent for analysis and the report came back ... we are sorry to report that your horse has diabetes.
But another brand bites the dust.
IM devastated!
Newark NJ was one of the largest brewing manufactures in the country.
I don't drink, but as a waiter, I always got a chuckle when a guest would order a "Bucket of Rocks".
They are dismanteling, I think it was Pabsts Blue Ribbon, Its were the giant bottle is on Gsp
Rolling Rock is made with rice and corn (and some malt).
Stroh's was sold to Pabst. The brewery on Gratiot Ave. in Detroit was torn down 20 years ago.
It would have been nice for them to keep the brewery, though. If it's the same beer, who cares about the ownership?
Boy that brings back memories of my summer between high school and the navy!
Or I should say "non memories!"
That was Dubuque Star. Brewed in Dubuque, Iowa. It was close to Schmidt or Hamms in taste, which I mean to say was perfectly awful.
I still have places in NC, NM, and AZ, with NC being my birthplace.
But, I love these hills. I am just an hour from the DC beltway. I love to visit there. But, I can drive just 25 minutes and paddle my kayak in a 3 1/2 mile man-made lake (WV has NO natural lakes. I am told!), and share the view with a dozen or less folk, most weekdays. Most times I don't see another person.
I get screeched at by osprey, and hear all sorts of frogs. I have walked up on deer and coyote. I have yet to meet a bear, but spot makes plenty of noise.
I take Spot running almost every day. He is a 2 yr old Dal pup. It keeps him tired enough at the end of the day, so the house is intact. I walk 3-4 miles on the ridges, and try to dodge the ticks! I got Lyme disease in VA in 1994.
Life is good whenever you decide to just live it...
If you are ever in Texas, try Shiner Bock. It's about all I drink these days.
I've heard a lot about Shiner Bock - definitely on my list of beers to try.
Have you tried Shiner Bock
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