Member of Stroh beer family plummets to death in Texas hotel (Hold Muh Beer)

Associated Press ^ | July 10, 2003

[Dog Gone]

GRAPEVINE, Texas— A member of the Stroh beer family plummeted to his death early Wednesday when a rope of sheets he had fashioned to climb down from a 10th-story hotel balcony failed to hold, police said.

Charles Suddards Stroh, 43, of Addison died about 3:30 a.m. at Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office reported.

Police said Stroh had been staying at the Embassy Suites Outdoor World in Grapevine since early July, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in its online edition Wednesday. Bill Bretches, general manager for the hotel, declined to comment.

Stroh was a member of the family famous for brewing beer in Michigan, William Penner, a Michigan attorney who handled the victim's affairs, told the newspaper.

Grapevine police responded to a call about an intoxicated guest at the hotel about 1:20 a.m., police reports show.

"He had made repeated telephone calls down to the hotel desk reporting a bank robbery and other nonsensical things," said Grapevine Police Sgt. Bob Murphy. "They kept telling him not to call back."

Police said Stroh was polite and cooperative but drunk, and told officers he believed someone wanted to kill him. After talking to officers, Stroh agreed to stay in his hotel room and not to call the front desk any more, police reports show.

But as officers were leaving the hotel just before 2:30 a.m., they heard something hit the canopy above the entrance, then saw Stroh on the ground with the bedding next to him.

The Stroh Brewery Co. was founded by Bernhard Stroh in 1850 in Detroit, which was home to hundreds of breweries between 1830 and 1990. Stroh's downtown brewery closed in 1985 and the family sold the beer business by 1999.

 

[AdmSmith]

The beer-man should have known better than to go to GRAPE-VINE.

[FateAmenableToChange]

Stroh makes better ice cream than beer. Actually, they make the best mass market ice cream out there, since they had to do something with refrigeration capacity during prohibition. Relevant? No. But it's still cool.

[Fiddlstix]

[Redbob]

"But can you really describe what is in those cans of Strohs as "beer"?

Only using the most liberal definition of the term - and we don't do ANYthing in a liberal fashion here, do we?

[AnAmericanMother]

He must not have known how to tie a double sheet bend, or else he was too "Strohed" to remember how.

Trying to tie together odd sized items like bedsheets, anything else will slip and "capsize" . . . and then so will you.

[Hatteras]

I wonder what he was drinking? Budweiser? How come they never mention it in the article? I smell a conspiracy.... I mean, what would have happened if we found that Dave Thomas had died with empty McDonald's french fry containers littered throughout his bedroom?

Inquiring minds and all.... Pose with a Stroh's!

[SerpentDove]

"Do you have Prince Albert in a can?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!"

*SPLAT!*

[MrLeRoy]

Police said Stroh was polite and cooperative but drunk, and told officers he believed someone wanted to kill him. After talking to officers, Stroh agreed to stay in his hotel room and not to call the front desk any more, police reports show.

But as officers were leaving the hotel just before 2:30 a.m., they heard something hit the canopy above the entrance, then saw Stroh on the ground with the bedding next to him.

Another death due to Demon Alcohol. Bring back Prohibition!

[MistrX]

But can you really describe what is in those cans of Strohs as "beer"? We used to call it "Detroit River Water."

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Charlie's family lives in my town. They are a very nice family and quite philanthropic. They have always had problems with Charlie. This is very sad.

[VoiceOfBruck]

But can you really describe what is in those cans of Strohs as "beer"?

It's much better from a bottle. Still not all that great, though.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I used to work at the Stroh's brewery when still in college.
There were 10 am beer breaks, beer at lunch, beer tastings and beer break in the afternoon. Oh, boy.

[duckworth]

Well all I remember (huh huh) is that Strohs spelled backwards is Shorts.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Thank You, Harry Carey.

[Diddle E. Squat]

True...