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Last Call For Rolling Rock
WPXI ^ | 7/26/06

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 33; beer; makeyourownbeer; realmendrinkguinness; rollingrock; swill
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To: Dinah Lord

Some of my all time favorites:

PBR
Schlitz
Schaefers
Miller ponies
MGD
Utica Club
Lowenbrau


Never in a million years:

Meistro Brau
Coors lite


81 posted on 07/27/2006 6:24:32 AM PDT by synbad600
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To: tiger-one

Matts?


82 posted on 07/27/2006 6:26:36 AM PDT by wireman
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To: Cagey

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...


83 posted on 07/27/2006 6:26:48 AM PDT by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: Dane

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.


84 posted on 07/27/2006 6:27:55 AM PDT by em2vn
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To: Dane

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.


85 posted on 07/27/2006 6:28:05 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir wölle bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: Dane
Rice brew sucks.

But another brand bites the dust.

IM devastated!

86 posted on 07/27/2006 6:28:38 AM PDT by JOE6PAK (FAKE, but ACCURATE!)
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To: pageonetoo
In lima, I also enjoyed the benefit of 7 day banking at the branch in the grocery across the street! I loved the beauty of the area, but those damn winters are just too much. The weekend we arrived in 1977, there was a storm that left us with over 4 feet of snow, by saturday night. Of course, we got up on sunday and drove to church on cleared roads. The problem came into my VW camper bus, though. The windows had frost inside, from our breath. It took me two weeks to get a gas heater installed.

Yes, this is a beautiful area, but you're correct that the winters can be bad. You arrived in Lima during the Blizzard of '77, a legendary lake effect storm!

I am almost in heaven now. West-by-God-Virginia!

I just spent 4 days in the Buckhannon area chaperoning my son's football team on a team building/bonding trip. We stayed in the dorms at West Virginia Wesleyan. Football workouts in the morning, Sutton Lake outings in the afternoons, cookouts and bonfires at Coaches cabin near Rock Cave off of Route 4. You're right, you are almost in heaven! My wife's Dad is from Fairmont.
87 posted on 07/27/2006 6:30:13 AM PDT by rochester_veteran (born and raised in rachacha!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Newark NJ was one of the largest brewing manufactures in the country.


88 posted on 07/27/2006 6:30:36 AM PDT by exdem2000
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To: Dane
Goodbye 33.
89 posted on 07/27/2006 6:30:55 AM PDT by Volunteer (Just so you know, I am ashamed the Dixie Chicks make records in Nashville.)
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To: Dane

I don't drink, but as a waiter, I always got a chuckle when a guest would order a "Bucket of Rocks".


90 posted on 07/27/2006 6:33:07 AM PDT by Sensei Ern (http://www.myspace.com/reconcomedy/ "Nothing smells like security like gun smoke.")
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To: Pharmboy

They are dismanteling, I think it was Pabsts Blue Ribbon, Its were the giant bottle is on Gsp


91 posted on 07/27/2006 6:33:48 AM PDT by exdem2000
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To: JOE6PAK

Rolling Rock is made with rice and corn (and some malt).


92 posted on 07/27/2006 6:35:04 AM PDT by toddlintown
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To: Dane

Stroh's was sold to Pabst. The brewery on Gratiot Ave. in Detroit was torn down 20 years ago.


93 posted on 07/27/2006 6:37:23 AM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: toddlintown

It would have been nice for them to keep the brewery, though. If it's the same beer, who cares about the ownership?


94 posted on 07/27/2006 6:38:32 AM PDT by AmishDude (Back in the USA!)
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To: pageonetoo
"Gennie Cream!"

Boy that brings back memories of my summer between high school and the navy!

Or I should say "non memories!"

95 posted on 07/27/2006 6:51:19 AM PDT by guitar4jesus (Black, Conservative . . . and I vote!)
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To: SR 50

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.


96 posted on 07/27/2006 6:57:35 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: rochester_veteran
You're right, you are almost in heaven!

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...

97 posted on 07/27/2006 7:39:04 AM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan

If you are ever in Texas, try Shiner Bock. It's about all I drink these days.


98 posted on 07/27/2006 8:18:33 AM PDT by zeugma (I reject your reality and substitute my own in its place.)
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To: zeugma

I've heard a lot about Shiner Bock - definitely on my list of beers to try.


99 posted on 07/27/2006 9:33:52 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan

Have you tried Shiner Bock


100 posted on 07/27/2006 9:36:37 AM PDT by ARA
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