Do you rememember these old-fashoned brews?
Ballantine: India Pale Ale
Blatz: Milwaukee's Finest
Carlings: Hay Mabel Black Label
Schaefer: One Beer to Have ...
Falstaff: Growth and a Long Slide
'Gansett: Narragansett
Meister Brau: Panther P*ss
Rolling Rock: Latrobe Brewing
Schlitz: Made Milwaukee Famous
Rheingold: Miss Rheingold
Ruppert: Knickerbocker
Pabst: Blue Ribbon
Old Peculier: Theakstons
Utica Club: Saranac
If they are all not dead, many are certainly dying. (I truly love the last two ... and I liked Rolling Rock when it was brewed in western Pennsylvania.)
There are new beers to replace the carbonated:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.lagunitas.com/
http://www.oskarblues.com/
http://www.lefthandbrewing.com/
http://www.dailycamera.com/business/ci_17804546?source=rss
Is it possible that artificial carbonation (CO2 injection) is/was the reason for the decline of some of these businesses? Maybe Al Gore is getting even for their polluting of our atmosphere? (Although, by the looks of his girth lately, he still enjoys a few frothies.)
ReplyDeleteFurther thought -- it seems that the suds industry has been a perfect example of one of the key tenets of capitalism -- creative destriction -- out with the old, in with the new.
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