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  • The Schlitz Mistake: The Rise and Fall of Schlitz Brewing Co.(Featuring Primo) (Video)

    08/03/2024 4:26:08 PM PDT · by chickenlips · 67 replies
    YouTube ^ | Dec. 9, 2023 | Arthur Randal
    The Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company was one America's Largest beer producer. Creaters of Schlitz Beer (the Beer that made Milwakee Famous) the brand was beloved by many until the mid 1970s when attempts to cut production cost resulted in a gradual drop in quality eventually leading to it's decline. Those intrested in the companies fall will find a summery of events from it's founding until it's eventual fall in the early 1980s. This video also delves into the Hawaiian Beer Primo that was brought by Schlitz and could have served as a warning.
  • Pabst Is Sold to Russian Beverage Company

    09/18/2014 11:38:14 PM PDT · by RightGeek · 119 replies
    NY Times ^ | 9/18/2014 | David Gelles
    A Russian beverage company said on Thursday that it was acquiring the Pabst Brewing Company, which makes the Pabst Blue Ribbon beer popular with barflies and hipsters alike and other brands like Colt 45 and Old Milwaukee. [snip] The buyer is Oasis Beverages, a Russian brewer and beverages distributor. Backing Oasis is TSG Consumer Partners, an American private equity firm focused on consumer goods, which will take a minority stake. “Pabst Blue Ribbon is the quintessential American brand – it represents individualism, egalitarianism and freedom of expression – all the things that make this country great,” Eugene Kashper, the chairman...
  • Schlitz anew [Milwaukeeans revive the brew that made their city famous]

    08/16/2008 8:58:54 AM PDT · by COBOL2Java · 85 replies · 2,291+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 16 August 2008 | Emily Fredrix (AP)
    MILWAUKEE It's the beer that made Milwaukee famous. Now Schlitz is making the city nostalgic.That beer with the old-time mystique is back on shelves in bottles of its original formula in the city where it was first brewed more than a century and a half ago. Schlitz was the top-selling beer for much of the first half of the 20th century, but recipe changes and a series of foul-ups made the beer - in many a drinker's opinion - undrinkable, turning what was once the world's most popular brew into little more than a joke. But after decades of dormancy,...
  • Relaunched Schlitz Beer Selling Out in Milwaukee Area

    07/02/2008 1:52:46 PM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 55 replies · 2,164+ views
    JSOnline ^ | July 1, 2008 | Staff Writer
    When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer, according to an old ad campaign. And, as Milwaukee-area beer lovers are discovering, a lot of places are out of Schlitz, at least in the bottled form. Within days of the Schlitz 1960s formula being brought back to Milwaukee, the beer was largely sold out - snapped up by both older guys who remember the beer from back in the day, and younger drinkers curious about the fuss. A new shipment is coming to liquor stores and taverns beginning Wednesday, but it will be relatively small, said Mike Merriman, president of...
  • Original Formula Schlitz Coming Back to Chicago!!

    04/10/2008 12:16:45 PM PDT · by toddlintown · 126 replies · 266+ views
    Beer (& More) In Food ^ | 4-5-2008 | Bob Skilnik
    I can’t wait! This is the beer I was raised on, long before certain people at Schlitz got greedy, leading to Schlitz beer becoming known as “Schitz” beer. The downfall of Schlitz, combined with a bottler’s strike at Anheuser-Busch in 1976 allowed Old Style, a sleeper brand that had been in Chicago since the early 1900s, to take over the Chicagoland beer market. OS distributors took their battle for supremacy to neighborhood taverns, bottle by bottle and case by case until the brand dominated more than 40% of the local beer market. The problems of the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Company...
  • New Book Answers the Question of Where the Beers Are That Grandpa Used to Drink

    09/08/2006 3:33:40 PM PDT · by toddlintown · 206 replies · 3,116+ views
    PRWeb ^ | 09-08-06 | PRWeb
    Beer historian explores what happened to famous brews like Schlitz, Rainier, Schmidt and National. Chicago, IL (PRWEB) September 8, 2006 -- Using Chicago as a backdrop, leading beer historian Bob Skilnik delves into the reasons why once favorite national and regional beer brands have faded in popularity, some banished to obscurity. BEER: A History of Brewing in Chicago ($24.95, Hardcover, 416 pages, Barricade Books, ISBN 1569803129), proves to be more than a regional history book as it also details the downfall of national breweries like Schlitz and Pabst, to once powerhouse regionals with their flagship brands such as Seattle’s Rainier,...