Comments on: Beer Brawl: The Birth Of The Brands http://billsbrainworks.com/beer-wars-the-birth-of-the-brands/ I’m Bill, and I approved this message. Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:45:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: Yolly http://billsbrainworks.com/beer-wars-the-birth-of-the-brands/#comment-797 Sun, 12 May 2013 04:09:43 +0000 http://billsbrainworks.com/?p=527#comment-797 Beer, beer, and more beer–-one man’s marketing obsession. Well, This Is What I Think…

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]]> By: jim http://billsbrainworks.com/beer-wars-the-birth-of-the-brands/#comment-227 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:48:30 +0000 http://billsbrainworks.com/?p=527#comment-227 Very informative and entertaining. Going to school in Milwaukee in the ’70s we would hit the brewery tours (Schlitz on the hour/Pabst on the half hour) on Friday afternoons and sample the brew fresh out of the vats. It’s a shame that both of these Milwaukee institutions are now shuttered, with Miller the only one of the big three left standing in beer city.

]]> By: George B. http://billsbrainworks.com/beer-wars-the-birth-of-the-brands/#comment-224 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:11:47 +0000 http://billsbrainworks.com/?p=527#comment-224 I was enjoying a glass of crisp white chard while reading this. It seems that monks are responsible for a lot of good beer as well as a lot of other spirited drinks. What did the monks do with their beer besides get loosened up to chant, compose literature and such? Perhaps Friar Tuck could shed some light on that. I bet the A-B folks are searching far and wide for the monks with the high gravity recipes that are currently pulling down their profits. In closing, may I say, Yazoo, Yazoo and more Yazoo!

]]> By: Bill http://billsbrainworks.com/beer-wars-the-birth-of-the-brands/#comment-222 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:43:48 +0000 http://billsbrainworks.com/?p=527#comment-222 Not sure about early price advantages. Glass bottles were a very expensive luxury until the late 1800s. Most beer would have been shipped to taverns in kegs and sold by the glass or bucket. You would assume a glass of anything cost the same–the famous nickel beer. But many taverns were bankrolled or owned outright by the breweries. Anheuser-Busch was especially known for this strategy, which was eventually outlawed as a monopoly. So, company-owned taverns may well have offered special, lower prices on their brand. Technological advances in the 1970s allowed for the creation of larger breweries that generated significant economies of scale. Companies that had the cash to build the new breweries reaped the advantages in increased margins.

]]> By: Andy A, http://billsbrainworks.com/beer-wars-the-birth-of-the-brands/#comment-221 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:16:18 +0000 http://billsbrainworks.com/?p=527#comment-221 Very informative and an easy read. Did the success over local beer have anything to do with economy of scale — ie, were Bud-Schlitz-Pabst cheaper?

]]> By: WItzig http://billsbrainworks.com/beer-wars-the-birth-of-the-brands/#comment-220 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:05:36 +0000 http://billsbrainworks.com/?p=527#comment-220 Thanks for a great brand history story, Bill. Just tweeted.

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