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[6] [7] [8] A year later the company bought a 6.4-acre site at the corner of Forrest Street and Bremen Street, in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, and built a new plant there. [4] Samuel retired in 1868, and in 1870 the name of the company was changed to S. Liebmann’s Sons Brewery. [9] [10] The Rheingold brand name was first used in 1883.
He combined the brewery with another local brewery he owned located in the Vilnian suburb of Popławy (modern Paupys, now a part of the city) and turned the company into a joint-stock company named Towarzystwo Akcyjne Browaru Szopen — Joint-stock Company of the Szopen Brewery. The new company had 0.5 million rubles at its disposal and hired ...
The Plank Road name was resurrected in the 1990s to sell Icehouse and Red Dog as a more premium beer under a different name, so as not to directly associate them with Miller Brewing. Using the tag line "Be Your Own Dog," Tommy Lee Jones was hired to voice Red Dog TV commercials in the ad campaign from the creative team of Michael McLaughlin and ...
Moosehead wholly owns the Niagara Falls Brewing Company in Ontario. In 2005, Moosehead Lager won Gold at the prestigious Monde Selection; the company had also won Gold medals at the World Beer Cup and 2003 Canadian Brewing Awards. [10] In 2008, Moosehead sold its minority interest in McAuslan Brewing to Les Brasseurs RJ.
The Lagunitas Brewing Company, founded in 1993 in Petaluma, California, is a subsidiary of Heineken International. [2] Before Heineken bought a 50% share of the company in 2015, the company met the definition of a craft brewery. Two years prior it ranked fifth top-selling craft brewery in the US. [3]
[7] [3] [6] In 2014, Bad Martha opened the first Bad Martha Farmer’s Brewery, a tasting barn modeled after the wine tasting rooms in Napa Valley. [8] The flagship brewery tasting room is located in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard and features a changing selection of up to 10 beer varieties on tap brewed on site with a 7-barrel brewing system.
[3] [4] The company that is now South African Breweries was founded in 1895 as Castle Brewery to serve a growing market of miners and prospectors in and around Johannesburg. Two years later, it became the first industrial company to list on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the year after (1898) it listed on the London Stock Exchange. [5]
In both the 1950 and 1970 rankings Schaefer Beer was one of the top selling beers in the US, ranking as high as fifth. [3] Though it was producing more than twice as much beer in 1980, the gap between it and the top national brands was dramatically widening. In 1981, the Schaefer family sold the company to the Stroh Brewery Company. [4]