

Open Cider Championship Medal Winners were announced November 19, including two wins for Stevens Point-based Point Brewery Ciderboys Hard Cider, including Gold for its Peach Country in the Peach Cider category and Silver for its First Press in the Modern/Sweet Cider category. With more than 300 entries, the 2019 U.S.

Hacienda won a Silver for its WI L’Hiver in the Wild Beer/Brett (Non-Acidic) category and MobCraft took a Gold for its Sour Golden Ale in the Wild Beer (Acidic) Sours. Heileman Brewing’s, before that.īay View Brew Club that meets at 7pm on the third Monday at Lee’s Luxury Lounge will be holding its Holiday Bottle Share and labeling their June 22 homebrew Russian Imperial Stout, December 16.Ĭongratulations to Wisconsin breweries MobCraft and Hacienda Brewing (Baileys Harbor, WI, with its Hacienda Beer Company Tap Room on North Ave.) for their recent Illinois Craft Brewers Guild FOBAB (Festival of Barrel Aged Beer) held November 8-9.

(Rolling Rock beer is now owned by Anheuser Busch.)Ĭheers, to the recent retirement of Randy Hughes, City Brewery Brewmaster, and G. City Brewing has a combined capacity of about 30 million barrels, at 31 U.S. City Brewing alone, along with its La Crosse facility, also owns Blues City Brewery, the former Molson-Coors plant in Memphis (originally Schlitz, then Stroh’s) as well as the former Rolling Rock Brewery facility in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, acquired in 2006. BTW, there are several regional breweries out there. Pabst sold 4.5 million barrels of brew in 2018, about 2.1 percent of total market share. During my tenure as Pabst MKE Brewery Tour Guide, Pabst Chairman and CEO Eugene Kashper and John Kimes (Pabst VP of Brewing), Pabst was planning to acquire one, maybe two breweries. Heileman Brewing, La Crosse, WI), from 2024 through 2040. In anticipation, Los Angeles-based Pabst just signed a contract with City Brewing (former G. More Pabst news, the 2018 battle royale, between PBR and Miller-Coors (um, soon to be Molson-Coors) ended with Miller agreeing to contract brew for another five years. Beer Capitol Distributing’s Metro MKE ration is between 15 and 20 of these babies. Want beer? The seven-foot-long PBR Limited Edition Family Pack, holding 99 12-ounce PBR cans (3 rows/ 33 cans each for $99) has hit select Milwaukee stores. The grain elevator is gone, but, proudly, the copper brew kettle tops remain at The Brewhouse Inn and Suites.

I remember touring the old Pabst facility with Jim, riding the elevator up the grain elevator and wiping the dust off the brew kettles. Speaking of Beery Birthdays, Jim and Karen Haertel’s Best Place, at the Historic Pabst Brewery recently held their 10th Anniversary Celebration with $1 PBRs, music by The Squeezettettes, a Stein Holding Competition, and, of course, a cake shaped like a PBR can. Not bad, especially since Mondays are Lakefront Halfy Hour, where from 4-8pm, all taps, cheese curds and brewery tours are all off, anyway. The celebration runs from 11am-8:30pm with all their Tier 1 taps at $2. Thirty-two? Yes, Lakefront Brewery is turning 32 on Monday, December 2.
