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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 …read more

I recently stumbled across this webpage from the Wisconsin Historical Society profiling an original Schotz brewery smock from the Laverne and Shirley show, a 70’s sitcom hit set in Milwaukee. For those who don’t recall, the show revolved around two bottle-cappers from the fictional Shotz brewery, Laverne and Shirley, and their two foils, Lenny and “Squiggy.” Lenny and Squiggy are also employed by the brewery, as truck drivers.
My beerSmarts triva cards state that the Milwaukee brewery Blatz was the inspiration for the brewery, whereas the Wikipedia entry on Laverne and Shirley (more credibly, in my mind) suggests that it …read more