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Pabst started using caps on bottles instead of corks in 1906. Not only did Pabst start canning beer in 1934 (Wikipedia lists 1935), but they were the first brewery to do so.
The brewing industry played the most signifi-cant part in fueling the dry crusade after 1890, when beer came to provide the majority of beverage alcohol in the United States. The marketing practices of brew-ers, including Pabst, enraged growing numbers of Americans and led them to support the dry cause.
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Pabst Brewing Co., the 170-year-old brewery that makes Pabst Blue Ribbon—known as “PBR” to the mustachioed cognoscenti—is for sale, Reuters reported over the weekend. And the expectation is that the company will fetch as much as $1 billion. The past decade has been an incredible one for the brewery, and especially for its namesake beer.
- Anheuser-Busch
- Coors Brewing Company
- Miller Brewing Company
- Pabst Brewing Company
- D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc.
The Busch family was not caught unprepared by the arrival of Prohibition. “Adolphus Busch was in tune with what was happening in the United States and saw the potential for national Prohibition as early as the 1890s,” says Tracy Lauer, Anheuser-Busch’s archives director. In 1908, Busch directed his chief chemist to develop a non-alcoholic cereal be...
Four years before the rest of the United States, beer sales were banned in Colorado, where German immigrant Adolph Coors co-founded his brewery in 1873. Forced to diversify, Coors became one of the leading producers of malted milk, which was sold to soda fountains and candy companies and marketed as a food for infants. Throughout Prohibition, Coors...
The Milwaukee-based Miller Brewing Company barely survived Prohibition. In fact, the Miller family put the company up for sale in 1925 but found no takers. Like other brewers, Miller produced a near beer called Vivo along with soft drinks, malted milk and malt syrup. The company managed to survive in large part due to its real estate holdings and i...
Also based in Milwaukee, Pabst Brewing Company survived by selling malt syrup, purchasing a soft drink company and leasing part of its plant space to motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson. The brewer, however, most notably diversified by selling another popular Wisconsin product—cheese. During Prohibition, Pabst sold more than eight million pound...
Founded in 1829 in the coal mining town of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, D.G. Yuengling & Son had been in operation for nearly a century before the onset of Prohibition, and it was a frozen concoction that helped it hang on. “As America’s oldest brewery, we have a long history of perseverance,” says sixth-generation Yuengling family member Debbie Yueng...
Aug 29, 2014 · A beer with bold flavor and character. A beer that was supposedly America's first IPA. But then the 1970s happened. The tastes of the masses changed, and not for the better. A tidal wave of ...
The Pabst Brewing Company is an American company that dates its origins to a brewing company founded in 1844 by Jacob Best and was, by 1889, named after Frederick Pabst.
Apr 7, 2020 · What started in 1844 as a tiny Milwaukee brewery had become the largest beer maker in the nation by 1874, producing more than a million barrels a year in 1893. That same year, the company started...
