Blatz Beer
June 8, 2008 by Kelly Phillips Erb
Filed under Drinks
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Jon wasn’t fooled by our beer trivia!
He knew that Blatz was the real beer.
Blatz Brewery was originally called City Brewery of Milwaukee and was run by John Braun. After John Braun died, his neighbor and fellow brewer, Valentin Blatz married his widow and subsequently took over operations.
Blatz produced Milwaukee’s first individually bottled beer, beginning in 1874. By the 1900s, it was Milwaukee’s third largest brewer, brewing over a million barrels of beer annually. It was also the first Milwaukee brewery to market beer nationally and the first Milwaukee brewery to have an online bottling plant.
Despite its success, Blatz was eventually bought out by one of Milwaukee’s other breweries, Pabst, in the 1960s. It was subsequently sold off and through mergers, oddly enough, became part of Pabst again in 2007. Coincidentally, the CEO of Pabst is said to be Thomas Blatz.
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As a follow-up, anybody know the fictitious “histories” of Shotz, Buzz and Duff beer?
