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Here’s a little more information about the Ballentine brand garnered from the Pabst web page:
” In 2014, Pabst relaunched the 136-year old Ballantine India Pale Ale. First brewed in America in 1878, Ballantine IPA was a beer for connoisseurs. It has been credited as an inspirational influence for the present day American craft beer revolution. Handcrafted by Pabst’s master brewers, this delightfully hoppy brew resurrects its deep heritage and storied past to embody an IPA worthy of the original Ballantine name.
Ballantine XXX Ale also still proudly displays its three interlocking rings and can be found throughout the Northeast.”
In the 70’s, several of us would frequently have lunch at Becker’s Bar on 10th and Highland. We washed down Peter Becker’s chili with Ballentine’s IPA.
I was a member of the Milwaukee Liederkranz, a men’s singing society, for 30 years. For our 125th Anniversary in 2003 I was the historian of the group.
The Forst Keller was used as the Liederkranz clubhouse from 1925 to 1934. They rehearsed in the upstairs church space and then came downstairs into the Forst Keller restaurant for a bit of beer. The Liederkranz had 90 active singers at that time and 450 passive members. The passive members were important Milwaukee leaders who kept the beer flowing during Prohibition. The Liederkranz even sponsored train trips to resorts up north with beer on the train during this time.
The Pabst Brewery needed the upstairs hall for office expansion after Prohibition so the Liederkranz moved their clubhouse to 779 Front St, where they remained till 1945. This is the current site of the Safe House.
The Liederkranz used the Pabst facility again as a clubhouse from 1945 to 1975. I had an old friend, now gone, who told me of the wonderful times he had, singing upstairs, and then going downstairs to the Forst Keller to continue singing for the restaurant patrons. He was a bachelor at that time so it was fun time for him. The Binder family ran the restaurant for much of that time.
According to your article, Pabst could indeed transform brewing! Thanks, Michael Horne – reading your words I felt like I was there at the ceremony!
This sounds great!
My dad is nearly 80yo now, and was a Milwaukee cop for years. He drank Miller because my aunt worked at the brewery and she got a couple cases of “not quite full” bottles (or something like that) every payday–which she promptly gave to my dad.
We were very South Side working class, but I remember dad really being impressed with Andeker and drinking it on special occasions.
In the summer of 1966 I worked at Chief Oshkosh Brewery in Oshkosh, of course. We could buy short fill cases of beer for $1.50. There also was an old cooler of short fill beer in the lunch/break room where you could get a beer anytime during the working day.
Short fills were in returnable bottles and they had a detector on the bottling line or maybe just a guy watching beer bottles going by.
Chief was on its last legs at that time and everything was done by hand. Cases were filled by a guy sitting at a machine where you put a clean empty case on a platform, you pushed a foot button, the platform raised, 24 bottles of beer dropped in, platform dropped down, you shoved the case to the right where there was another guy loading cases on pallets.
The free beer was the best in the kegging room. This beer was fresh, unpasturized, and at a 34 degree temperature.
Is Pabst opening the old Miller Coors brewery in Eden,NC in October 2017?
Is Pabst opening the old Miller Coors plant in Eden,NC