http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=212 What part of beer don't you understand? Mon, 13 May 2013 13:22:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=212&cpage=1#comment-3640 Mill Rat Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:38:25 +0000 http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=212#comment-3640 Those of us in the midwest thought of LaCrosse, Wisconsin as synonymous with Old Style and Special Export, too. Same old story. Crawl the web and read about what happened to institutions like Falstaff, Black Label, and others, and the people who brewed those brands. I'd be more surprised than not to find out that we'll soon have a Latrobe Lager, in the vein of LaCrosse Lager, that does a better job of maintaining Latrobe's brewing tradition than InBev did or (shudder) A-B will. The loss of the union scale wages that RR paid will be painful, but City Brewing's rates will still be far better than what Sprawl-Mart pays its greeters, and its a job to be proud of. Those of us in the midwest thought of LaCrosse, Wisconsin as synonymous with Old Style and Special Export, too. Same old story. Crawl the web and read about what happened to institutions like Falstaff, Black Label, and others, and the people who brewed those brands. I’d be more surprised than not to find out that we’ll soon have a Latrobe Lager, in the vein of LaCrosse Lager, that does a better job of maintaining Latrobe’s brewing tradition than InBev did or (shudder) A-B will. The loss of the union scale wages that RR paid will be painful, but City Brewing’s rates will still be far better than what Sprawl-Mart pays its greeters, and its a job to be proud of.

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