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June 29th, 2008

More Beer Trivia: Oldest Brewery

Which is the oldest still-operating brewery in the US?
1) Stoudts
2) Boston Beer Company
3) Yuengling
4) FX Matt Brewery
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June 8th, 2008

Blatz Beer

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Jon wasn’t fooled by our beer trivia!
He knew that Blatz was the real beer.
Blatz Brewery was originally called City Brewery of Milwaukee and was run by John Braun. After John Braun died, his neighbor and fellow brewer, Valentin Blatz married his widow and subsequently took over operations.
Blatz produced Milwaukee’s […]

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May 8th, 2008

Anti-marketing beer

So, if you were interested in the recent post I did on Pabst blue ribbon, you may well be interested in this as well, although it’s rather long. It’s an interesting look into the dynamics of Pabst’s products and marketing today, which doesn’t necessarily paint the most rosy of pictures for the venerable brewer. In […]

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May 6th, 2008

Beer for the ages (I mean aged)

For those who didn’t notice, the Pabst Blue Ribbon brand, long a mainstay of the lunchbox-toting working class, has made a comeback in the last few years, becoming the beer of choice for the anti-establishment wannabes in many urban settings. Trading on a sense of nostalgia and simplicity, they’ve managed to make a mediocre beer […]

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May 4th, 2008

Schlemiel, Schlemazal

I recently stumbled across this webpage from the Wisconsin Historical Society profiling an original Schotz brewery smock from the Laverne and Shirley show, a 70’s sitcom hit set in Milwaukee. For those who don’t recall, the show revolved around two bottle-cappers from the fictional Shotz brewery, Laverne and Shirley, and their two foils, Lenny and […]

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April 16th, 2008

Back to the source

Back when I first traveled to the Czech Republic the route from my home in Munich went straight through Pilsen, past the Pilsner Urquell brewery. At the time, and for quite some time afterwards, the Pilsner Urquell’s own trip to the market involved fermenting in wooden barrels, which were painstakingly cleaned after each batch of […]

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April 14th, 2008

Liquid Bread (beer as an essential part of daily life) Liquid Bread (beer as an essential part of daily life)

The return of Hopfen and Malz
Writing my previous post (Saints of the Suds #3) got me to thinking about the role of beer in our daily lives. It doing a little basic research into the history of beer consumption, there was a time in which beer held a much more prominent place in […]

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April 9th, 2008

Ding Dong the Witch is dead

If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, Tröegs Brewery in Harrisburg PA is teaming up with the local historical society to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition.
For those who aren’t aware of it, the US had as vibrant and thriving a brewing industry as any country before Prohibition killed […]

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April 1st, 2008

Waiter, there’s a fly in my beer

According to beer smarts, which regular readers know is a set of trivia cards I received for Christmas, the lid on a beer stein was originally conceived as a means of preventing disease during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century. As a secondary matter, it also helped keep the happy beer […]

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March 9th, 2008

Beware the ales of March (redux)

Since yesterday’s post was about the beers of March, French style, I had to follow it up with the famous Märzenbier, German for March beer. Brewed in March, these beers are associated more with fall and the Oktoberfest, which is when these beers would be tapped. To learn more about this style, check out this […]

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