Saturday, May 11, 2013

Vintage 1950s Stroh's Beer bottle cap

Vintage 1950s Stroh's Beer bottle cap.
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A brief corporate history of Stroh's:

- Bernard Bernhardt Stroh 1850-1882 Lion Brewing Co.

- B. Stroh Brewing Co. 1882-1902

- The Stroh Brewery Co. 1902-1919

- Brewery operations shut down by Prohibition in 1920 and operated as The Stroh Products Co. 1920-1933

- The Stroh Brewery Co. 1933-2000

- Purchased and operated Goebel Brewing Co. 1964-1985

- Purchased by Pabst and dissolved in 2000



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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Vintage 1940 Goebel Beer bottle cap


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Goebel Brewing Co. was established in 1873 in Detroit, Michigan. Production expanded after prohibition and in 1946 they purchased the Grand Rapids Brewing Company in Muskegon and operated it from 1946-1957. Goebel purchased the Detroit brewery Koppitz-Melchers in 1947 and operated it until 1958.

In an attempt to expand westward, the Golden West Brewery in Oakland, California was purchased in 1950. Success was artificially supported by the Korean War and west coast operations ceased in 1955, ending the quest to become a national brand. The Stroh Brewery Co. in Detroit bought the brand in 1964, and was itself later purchased by Pabst.


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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Vintage 1940s Pfeiffer bottle cap

Vintage 1940s Pfeiffer's Beer bottle cap
featuring Johnny Fifer.
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Pfeiffer Brewing Co. was founded by Conrad Pfeiffer in 1889 and operated continuously in Detroit (with the exception of Prohibition) until 1968. In the 1954 Pfeiffer acquired the Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company of St. Paul, Minnesota. The Flint plant was closed in 1958, but in an attempt to become a regional brand Pfeiffer purchased the E&B Brewing Company including its brands Weidemann and Frankenmuth and renamed itself Associated Brewery Co. in 1962.


Further mergers aquisitions included Drewerys in South Bend, Indiana and Chicago; Sterling in Evansville, Indiana; and Piel with plants in New York and Massachusetts. Associated was headquartered in Detroit and Pfeiffer Beer was still brewed there along with such old favorites as Frankenmuth, Schmidt and North Star. Pfeiffer was also brewed in St. Paul, Minnestoa during this time,
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Because of its growing debt and an increase in state excise tax from $1.25 / bbl to $6.61 / bbl, Associated found it was cheaper to brew in Indiana and closed the Detroit Pfeiffer brewery in 1966.


Associated Brewing continued producing Pfeiffer Beer until 1972 when it sold all its brands to other brewers. The former Pfeiffer Brewing Company was renamed the Armada Corporation (the name hinting at its former dominance in the market place) and it remains in business to this day as a holdings company in the Penobscot building in Detroit.



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Saturday, May 4, 2013

Vernor's Ginger Ale - Deliciously Different!

Vintage 1950s-60S Vernor's Ginger Ale bottle cap.
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According to legend, before James Vernor left Detroit to serve in the Civil War, he stored some of his experimental ginger ale in an oak cask. When he returned four years later, he opened the cask and found that the drink had been changed by the aging process, tasting even better than it had before. He declared the ginger ale to be “Deliciously Different,” which became one of the many slogans for the drink such as "Flavor Aged" and "Aged in Wood."



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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Better Made Sign - 16x16 Canvas

Home of Better Made Potato Chips
Gratiot Ave., Detroit
(I have no idea what "Guest Quality" means.)
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On August 1, 1930 Cross Moceri and Peter Cipriano started the the Cross and Peters Co. Their goal was to make a better potato chip, hence the name Better Made.

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