The Schlitz decision was a case study in one of the business courses I took.
I hope MORE of their product go under. I have refused to drink a single drop of Miller's swill since the infamous "Gay Last Supper" controversy.
Miller Brewing Co. is dead to me.
If I had I would not admit to it.
I drank stuff like Schlitz, Schaffer, Pabst, Lowenbrau, Bud, Miller and Coors back when I was a kid, but would prefer water to any of these brews.
Lots of folks here at FR seem to have an affinity for that stuff ~ not my cup of tea ~ but good for them if they like it!
I tried Zima the year it launched. I thought it was a refreshing change, but beer was much cheaper. LOL. I’m a chick, so that won’t dispel its girly-man image.
In there was an equivalent to Zima, called “Clayton’s”.
Its actual presence in the marketplace was short; however it gained immortality in the New Zealand English Dialect.
To describe something as being “Claytons” is to describe it as being cheap and fake.
For example, Obama is your Claytons President because he has only ever been able to produce a Claytons Certificate of Live Birth.
Fantastic news. The only question is why the heck did it take so long? That crap never should have made it to the market in the first place.
I always thought Zima tasted like Alka Seltzer
I went from Schooner to Alpine to Moose Dry and now I drink the king of beers... Budweiser! Alexander Keiths is acceptable when Bud is unavailable, but it is rarely unavailable.
I like my beer brewed in vats the size of Rhode Island, that’s why I drink my Bud.
I’m VERY allergic to something in beer. Every time I’ve tried to drink it, I start throwing up after a few sips. Type doesn’t matter, cheap or expensive, the same thing happens
I used to like Zima. Nice for picnics & weekend afternoons when you didn’t want wine or hard liquor. Much nicer than wine coolers that are just too sweet!!
Sigh, I’m probably the only person on the planet who drank it, but I liked it.
right, back in the day we called it Sch**z. PBR 16 ozs baby!
I had it once at a party where I didn’t particularly want to drink. One bottle lasted the entire night, and half of it was left over.
“Bitch Beer” I hope it died a painful death.
One particularly infamous incident concerning Zima happened on the TV series “Babylon 5”. In the episode entitled “TKO”, series creator J. Michael Straczynski put a Zima neon sign in the bar at the Zocalo, the central shopping area on the station. Was it product placement? Why did they do it? In JMS’ own words...they “got not a dime for sticking in the Zima sign. We just thought... well, it’d be funny.”
Funny didn’t describe the backlash from fans.
They got a TON of emails, letters, and newsgroup posts about it, and overwhelmingly negative. “How can such swill survive 300 years and still be around in 2269???”
If sci-fi fans (who I know from personal experience will drink ANYTHING alcoholic set in front of them) wouldn’t drink it, and didn’t want to even see it mentioned in one of their favorite series, then it HAD to be bad.
What human being would drink Zima when Yeungling is available..........
“When you’re out of slits, you’re out of pier.”
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In April 1977, the brewery workers union at Coors, representing 1,472 employees, went out on strike. The brewery kept operating with supervisors and 250 to 300 union members, including one member of the union executive board, who ignored the strike.
Soon after, Coors announced that it would hire replacements for the striking workers. About 700 workers quit the picket line to go back to work, and Coors replaced the remaining 500 workers, and kept making beer uninterrupted.
In December 1978, the workers at Coors voted by greater than 2:1 to decertify the union, ending 44 years of union representation at Coors. Because the strike was by then more than a year old, striking workers could not vote in the election.
Labor unions organized a boycott to punish Coors for its labor practices. One tactic was to push for state laws to ban sales of unpasteurized canned and bottled beer. Because Coors was the only major brewer not pasteurizing its canned and bottled beer, such laws would hurt only Coors.
Sales of Coors suffered during the 10-year labor union boycott, although Coors said the declining sales were also due to an industry-wide downturn in beer sales, and to increased competition. To maintain production, Coors expanded its sales area from the 18 western states to which it had marketed for years, to nationwide distribution.
The AFL-CIO ended its boycott of Coors in August 1987, after negotiations with Pete Coors, head of brewery operations. The details were not divulged, but were said to include an early union representation election in Colorado, and use of union workers to build the new Coors brewery in Virginia.
In 1988, the Teamsters Union, which represented brewery workers at the top three U.S. beer makers at that time (Anheuser-Busch, Miller, and Stroh), gained enough signatures to trigger a union representation election. Coors workers again rejected union representation by more than 2:1.
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This is the reason Coors stopped being a quality product back in the Carter administration. One more reason to detest the 70's.
Zima was the very definition of swill.
The worse crap I’ve ever bought and wont even get you drunk. I got some for me and my girl back in the day and had to run out for real beer a few hours later. Live and Learn... = ¥ + Ü