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Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company is an American brewery based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was once the largest producer of beer in the United States.Its namesake beer, Schlitz (/ ˈ ʃ l ɪ t s /), was known as "The beer that made Milwaukee famous" and was advertised with the slogan "When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer". [1]
The 1981 Schlitz strike was a labor strike involving approximately 700 brewery workers of the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The strike began June 1, 1981 after the labor contract between Schlitz and the local union (Brewery Workers Local 9) expired without a replacement. The strike came at a time ...
The Stroh Brewery Company was a beer brewery in Detroit, Michigan.In addition to its own Stroh's brand, the company produced or bought the rights to several other brands including Goebel, Schaefer, Schlitz, Augsburger, [2] Erlanger, Old Style, Lone Star, Old Milwaukee, Red River, and Signature, as well as manufacturing Stroh's Ice Cream.
Under 'Beginnings, the following sentence is quite unclear: "Two years after Schlitz married Krug's widow, he changed the name of the brewery to the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co." Did he change the name two years 'after' marrying, or did he marry and change the name two years 'after' Krug's death? In this case, 'after' is a poorly chosen word.
Though canned beer had existed since the 1930s, the Sixties are when it really came into its own. In 1965, Schlitz introduced pull tabs on canned beer. By 1969, canned beers outsold bottled beer ...
In 1948, Schlitz was producing 4 million barrels of beer annually, more than any brewer in the world. [10] By 1950, Schlitz shipped more than five million barrels of beer [51] and Pabst 3.4 million barrels of beer. [21] In 1950, Schlitz was the number one brewer in the country with Pabst fourth, Miller eighth, and Blatz ninth. [55]
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Joseph Schlitz was born on May 15, 1831, in Mainz, Hesse-Darmstadt. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1850. In 1856, he assumed management of the Krug Brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [a] In 1858, when he married George August Krug's widow, Anna Maria Krug, [1] he changed the name of the company to the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company.