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Thanks to an incentive-laden deal with the state, Pabst Brewing Company is moving their corporate headquarters from San Antonio (WTF? Milwaukee was so bad they had to move to San Antonio?) to suburban Woodridge, according to an article in today's Sun-Times. The deal, which gives Pabst a nearly $1 million tax incentive and training funding package for 31 executives, to be hired from the area. Pabst itself ifs spending $2.4 million to lease a facility as its coproate headquarters.
It's a sensible business move. In addition to moving within smelling distance of its ancestral roots, Pabst's moving of its corporate headquarters to Woodridge could be an indicator that they want to build upon its strong market share in Illinois. The company - which also brews Schlitz, Old Style, Old Milwaukee, and Colt 45 Malt Liquor - is the third largest beer seller in the state. Is there a bargain beer they don't brew?
This comes hot on the heels of Pabst becoming an underwriter of NPR. Two weeks ago, Pabst began sponsoring NPR's online music series "All Songs Considered". The sponsorship allows the Pabst brand name to reach a target audience without having to place a five-page spread in GQ.
Hipsters, you may begin your backlash at any time!! Your ironic and frugal tendencies have helped Pabst Blue Ribbon enter the hoi polloi. We've heard a lot of good things about this band called Franz Ferdinand. Are they good?
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Lots of beer news today with the announcement of the new beer from Goose Island (Honkers) / (Anheuser-Busch) Budweiser, which will be called "Bonkers Ale". Can't wait to try!
this brings up something i have been worried about since the edmar closed on tuesday... i can't think of any other places in the city where a person can by schlitz... anyone know of any other stores stocking those $3 six packs?
Um, Pabst Blue Ribbon has long been a drink of the hoi polloi. Hipsters and the post frat crowd simply made it more fashionable for those who aren't parking lot burnouts or their working class stiff parents.
it's a fact: pbr is usually the cheapest beer at most bars. i really don't know why everyone acts like its some sort of ridiculous hipster trend.
It's 2.00 dollars a pint almost anywhere in the city. 20 bucks will get you 10 beers and 2,500 calories.
Are the people drinking PBR hipsters or cheapsters? Or are the terms synonomous?
Curm, you can tell the cheapsters from the hipsters as the cheapsters are wearing the latest wal-mart fashions and the hipsters are wearing someone else's clothes that were left at their pad after an all night party. But other than that, they are synonomous.
i drink pbr because it is the cheapest beer at most venues (except sub-t where schlitz is $2.00). and whomever was looking for schlitz, they sell it at the liquor store on belmont just west of the beat kitchen.
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I only know of own liquor store that consistently has Schlitz sixers: Morse "L" Liquors right under the tracks at the Morse stop on the Red Line.
kt... do you have an older brother named mark, by chance?
the liquor store just west of beat kitchen is Miska's, and I can't say if they have six packs of schlitz because i've never looked, but they do have an amazing variety of random russian and polish beers (as well as something that looks like a bottle of tequila shaped like a rifle in the front window).
Think of it this way, maybe all the white belts will move to Woodbridge for their Pabst. I'm sure they think like Guinness the Pabst is better the closer you are to the plant.
Pabst has no breweries. It's nothing more than a business that contracts out their beers, a "virtual" brewer.
Pabst owns PBR, Old Style, Schlitz, Stroh, Schmidt, Ballantine and a number of other former "big name" regional and national beers.
Pabst owns the labels but almost all their beers are contract-brewed by Miller.
Pabst has no breweries. It's nothing more than a business that contracts out their beers, a "virtual" brewer.
Pabst owns PBR, Old Style, Schlitz, Stroh, Schmidt, Ballantine and a number of other former "big name" regional and national beers.
Pabst owns the labels but almost all their beers are contract-brewed by Miller.
That booze shaped like a rifle is "Tommy Gun Vodka" and it is actually very expensive. But hilarious.
kt... do you have an older brother named mark, by chance?
no, two sisters, i was the only boy. actually, am, i am the only male.