"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:Nrdsb.174069$Tr4.465123@attbi_s03...
Actually, I read an article several months ago (don't remember where) that
PBR
is alive and doing ok in a small way. They are one step or two above a
micro-
brew these days.

Well, it's still available -- but it's hardly a microbrew. I think it was
bought up by one of the "McBrewers" -- Miller or Bud.

Sort of. Heilman went around buying up the world (got the local Carling/National
brewery near me). The Stroh grabbed Heilman in it's attempt to homogenize
the American beer market. Eventually this fell apart and Pabst actually bought
the many of the brands. They got out of the "beer making" business. Miller brews the
Pabst brands under contract. Pabst is just a marketing company now.

Of course, many of the so-called microbrews are brewed by larger operations under
contract to the small brewery. Perhaps the most egregious of this is the Boston
Beer Company which brews Sam Adams. With small exception, all Sam Adams
is brewed by F.X. Matt (Saranac), who also brews beers for Brookly Brewery,
Dock Street Brewery, Mass. Bay Brewing, New Amsterdam Brewing, and Olde
Heurich. Of course this doesn't prevent Jim Koch for going around trying to
sue anyone who dares use Boston and Beer in the same sentence.

-Ron

Was testing the circle drawing code in our product and was sitting in front
of the screen going "take a ring, and then another ring, and then another
ring, and you then got three rings Balantine." My office mates (darned kids) had
no clue what I was talking about.