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07-23-2016, 01:40 PM
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Carling is actually a Canadian company, owned by another Canadian company, Molson.
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Actually, I didn't say Carling was an American company. However Carling products were brewed and sold in America by American companies:
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After the repeal of prohibition in 1933, the Peerless Motor Car Company, looking for a way to diversify in the poor car market of the depression, purchased the American rights to Carling's formulas, identifying labels, and trademarks. Technicians and brewmasters were sent from Canada to convert a Peerless plant in Cleveland, Ohio, into the Brewing Corporation of America. They first tried just brewing Carling's Red Cap Ale, but sales were too slow to maintain the brewery, and sales didn't climb until the introduction of Black Label lager. The philosophy behind Black Label was to have a high quality lager that was available nationwide but with a locally brewed budget price. The strategy worked, and the next several decades led to rapid growth and expansion for the brewery and the Carling Black Label brand.[2]
When Carling stopped producing Black Label to focus on a more profitable lager, they found their sales plummeting. Carling re-introduced Black Label with a beautiful blonde named Mabel, portrayed by Jeanne Goodspeed, with the slogan "Hey Mabel, Black Label!". The twenty-year marketing campaign cemented the name in the popular culture of America.
In 1979, after several years of intense pressure from the larger American Brewers Miller and Anheuser-Busch, Carling-National was bought out by the Heileman Brewing Co. of LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Carling and the Black Label brand are currently owned by the Molson Coors Brewing Company. Though no longer widely distributed in the U.S., Black Label remains the official beer of Beer Frisbee.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carling_Black_Label
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07-23-2016, 02:04 PM
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In 1979, after several years of intense pressure from the larger American Brewers Miller and Anheuser-Busch, Carling-National was bought out by the Heileman Brewing Co. of LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Carling and the Black Label brand are currently owned by the Molson Coors Brewing Company. Though no longer widely distributed in the U.S., Black Label remains the official beer of Beer Frisbee.[2][/I] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carling_Black_Label
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Carling-National was the child of Mr. Boh and Mabel. Heileman, and with it Carling-National, was sold to Stroh's who in turn sold it to Pabst. Somewhere along the way, Carling must have been sold back to Canada or killed as a US brand.
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07-23-2016, 02:00 PM
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While we are doing local beer:
http://m.cityweekly.net/utah/utah-br...nt?oid=2157612
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07-23-2016, 02:10 PM
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I was hoping someone would start mentioning some old local beers from the time when every big city had their own breweries, ones like Iron City or Genesee, both of which are still going and both are still locally owned.
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07-23-2016, 02:23 PM
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I was hoping someone would start mentioning some old local beers from the time when every big city had their own breweries, ones like Iron City or Genesee, both of which are still going and both are still locally owned.
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Dixie Beer, New Orleans. Rotgut swill, but beloved and lovingly ridiculed. Katrina trashed the brewery and it's now contract brewed.
When talking locally brewed, family-owned beers, here's the grand-daddy of them all.
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07-23-2016, 02:30 PM
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Dixie Beer, New Orleans. Rotgut swill, but beloved and lovingly ridiculed. Katrina trashed the brewery and it's now contract brewed.
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Just like "Natty Boh", owned by Pabst but brewed under contract by Miller-Coors.
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When talking locally brewed, family-owned beers, here's the grand-daddy of them all.
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I forgot Yuengling. Another Pittsburgh beer, as I recall.
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07-23-2016, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Boreas
Just like "Natty Boh", owned by Pabst but brewed under contract by Miller-Coors.
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Dixie (or the skeletal remains thereof) is privately owned by Joe and Kendra Bruno who bought the struggling company in 1985. I remember when I lived in NOLA (75-78), Dixie put out a bad batch of beer (it got exposed to floor cleaning chemicals) and suffered a lot of bad publicity. As a result, it sent beer trucks out through the neighborhoods of New Orleans giving away free beer. It's now brewed by Huber Brewery in Monroe, WI.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21872115/n...ck-dixie-beer/
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I forgot Yuengling. Another Pittsburgh beer, as I recall.
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Yuengling is from Pottsville, near Allentown. Rolling Rock used to be another, but it has sold out and is no longer brewed in "the glass line tanks in Latrobe, PA," but in Newark by InBev.
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07-24-2016, 10:23 AM
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It was not until the craft breweries started up that I drank beer here, prior to their good brews the rest was like making love in a canoe.
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07-24-2016, 11:43 AM
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It was not until the craft breweries started up that I drank beer here, prior to their good brews the rest was like making love in a canoe.
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Drinking American beer made you fall into the water?
Frankly, I never saw an appreciable difference between American swill and beers like Labatt's and Molson. Moosehead was okay but Anchor Steam was better.
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07-24-2016, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Boreas
Drinking American beer made you fall into the water?
Frankly, I never saw an appreciable difference between American swill and beers like Labatt's and Molson. Moosehead was okay but Anchor Steam was better.
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I guess you never heard the expression before, simply means it is 'f**king near water'. Guess you never tried Labatt's Fifty or Molson's IPA. Never could understand why Moosehead was so popular down here it sure was not up north. If I wanted a beer from the Maritimes I would go with Oland.
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