In 1999 the old G. Heileman Brewing Company's former brewery buildings in La Crosse were bought by a group of investors who founded the City Brewing Company.
In September 2006, the company agreed to purchase the Latrobe Brewery in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.The new City Brewery Latrobe entered into an agreement with Boston Beer Company in April 2007, and began producing that company's Samuel Adams beer that spring.
National distribution is occurring in support of new brands DB Hobbs Lager and DB Hobbs Light, at 4.81% abv and 4.15% abv respectively, which some publications indicate may be relabeled versions of the LaCrosse Lager line.
City Brewery is also the name of another Wisconsin company founded by Johann Braun in 1846 which merged into the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company of Milwaukee.
Purchase of Latrobe Brewery
As Anheuser-Busch moved production of Rolling Rock to New Jersey in 2006, an owner was sought for the original Latrobe Brewing Companyin Pennsylvania. City Brewery completed the purchase and in March 2007, the Latrobe brewery reopened its doors and produced Samuel Adams. The Boston Beer Company signed a deal with the plant's current owners in April 2007, to produce beer in the plant. The Boston Beer Company had pledged $3 to 7 million dollars to upgrade the plant. It is estimated that 200,000 to 250,000 barrels of beer would be produced in the plant during the remainder of 2007.
In late October 2008, City Brewery-Latrobe laid off 70 workers forcing a temporary shutdown, and has not brewed beer at the plant since November.Boston Beer Co. has since moved their operations to an old Pabst brewery they purchased near Allentown, PA.In May 2009,Iron City Brewing signed a deal with City Brewing Co to begin producing beer at the plant, with brewing started in June and bottling/kegging production resumed in July, 2009.
In July 2009 some Southampton brands (Double White, IPA, Altbier, Pumpkin, Imperial Porter) were moved to Latrobe from Lion Brewing.
In addition to Iron City Beer, City Brewing also produces Stoney's and Stoney's Light in Latrobe.
On December 8, 2009 City Brewing Latrobe completed the installation of a can line and started canning in 12 and 16 ounce packages. A 24 ounce can line is expected to be completed in early 2010.
Introducing the 50 American Beers Project
Ta-da!….dah.Since my 100 Pubs Project is on hold indefinitely until I return back to London, I am launching another project to keep me occupied while I am in the New World: The 50 American Beers Project.It’s simple enough: I’m going to try 50 different American beers, with preference towards offerings from regional and micro-breweries, and talk about them on this here blog. Although I cannot promise that the 50 beers will come from each of the 50 states, for reasons that I will go into further later in this posting, I can promise you that I will do my best to select beers from at least each region of the United States, as well as different styles: porters, stouts, wheat ales, pilsners, brown ales and all the rest will be featured, along with some beer that may be unfamiliar to those of you in Londontown.
I’ve decided to do this project because we have some pretty damn good beer in America, and although I LOOOOOVE my English ales (and Scottish whisky… and Scottish gin…), I wanted to reacquaint myself with the microbreweries of the USA. Plus, for those of you in the UK or in other places outside of the US, I think this would be a nice introduction of the diverse beer scene that’s thriving here in Yankeeland, especially for readers who are only familiar with Pabst, Budweiser and Miller High Life. ”No, really, we do have good beer here, honest!”To accomodate this new project, there’ll be a bit of site restructuring in the next few days or so, but I’ve already started the project with one beer down (ooh, exciting!), and hope to make posting new updates to the project pretty regularly. Unlike during most of my work on the 100 Pubs Project, I’m not working on an MA at the moment, so I have much more free time to putter around, drink beer, and write about it. Also, since I work at Stardust, I have access to a wide variety of different beers. Have you seen their beer cooler? It’s beautiful.
Thank you, employee discount.Of course, not all of those beers are American–if you look closely you should be able to spot some lovely brews from St Peter’s Brewery of Suffolk, and maybe some Brazilian Xingu. But Orlando is home to not only places like Stardust with outstanding beer selections, but also home to Redlight Redlight, an establishment that can only be described as the haunt for a true beer connoisseur. I won’t have a problem finding 50 beers of American origin between Stardust and Redlight by any means.But I am anticipating problems in finding beers from each 50 states. Many regional beers don’t make it outside of their region. Even beers with fairly sizeable names, like Yuengling, are restricted to certain markets. What’s commonplace in upstate New York can be a rare if not impossible find in central Florida or on the coast of California. Barring some sponsorship from the publishing or media worlds (holla!), I’m restricted to my ample environs of Orlando, so my selections are going to be restricted by what’s available in my state and regional market. We do get beers from other states here, of course, but not every state from what I’ve seen. I don’t think I’ve seen any beer from Alaska in Orlando, for example, and it’s not like they don’t have any breweries. Hawaiian beer? Although there are places on line where people can do beer swaps (seriously) via mail, in many cases, I’ll only be having one bottle or pint of a particular beer, so it seems like a lot of fuss just to get one bottle sent over from, say, Nevada.So, unless someone decides to pay me some cash to rent an ol’ convertible that runs on vegetable oil to drive around the continental 48 and fly to the other two (*ahem!*), I’ll be blogging from a regional standpoint of the Southeast, particularly Florida. It would be interesting if anyone else in the United States in a different region would do a project like this, so that we could see how regional differences play into the available choices for a beer consumer. Plus, it would be lovely to read about someone else’s beer adventures in a different city. If anyone would like to do a similar project, feel free to contact me so we can swap links and LET OUR POWERS COMBINE.HOW TO VOLUNTEER
May 16, 2011
Experience the festival from the inside–be a volunteer! The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) works with more than 3,200 volunteers over the course of several months to put on this great event. In 2010, volunteers worked more than 52,000 hours! Don’t worry; there are some serious perks for all of that hard work.There are a wide variety of volunteer opportunities at the GABF. Benefits may be earned according to the number of days, shifts and areas worked. Opportunities include pouring beer, greeting attendees, working in merchandise, and helping with sustainability efforts, to name a few.We welcome your participation in the Brewers Association’s 30th annual Great American Beer Festival. Please visit our Volunteersection after June 1 for all the details, opportunities and sign up form.
BIG FESTIVAL, BIG NUMBERS, BIG TIME
May 16, 2011
We’re gonna give it to you straight. There is no way to truly explain the gigantic scale of GABF other than to actually experience the festival. But, we think these numbers paint a pretty clear picture on why this is the craft beer event of the year!- 3 days
- 4 sessions
- 49,000 attendees
- 450+ breweries
- 2,200+ beers
- 36,000 gallons of beer
- 100 tons of ice
- 3,400 volunteers
- 54,000 volunteer hours
If you plan to make the most out of this opportunity to sample so many of America’s great beers, we suggest you purchase an All Session Pass, which will allow you to spread out your tasting across the three days and four sessions of the festival.
Introducing the 50 American Beers Project
Ta-da!
….dah.
Since my 100 Pubs Project is on hold indefinitely until I return back to London, I am launching another project to keep me occupied while I am in the New World: The 50 American Beers Project.
It’s simple enough: I’m going to try 50 different American beers, with preference towards offerings from regional and micro-breweries, and talk about them on this here blog. Although I cannot promise that the 50 beers will come from each of the 50 states, for reasons that I will go into further later in this posting, I can promise you that I will do my best to select beers from at least each region of the United States, as well as different styles: porters, stouts, wheat ales, pilsners, brown ales and all the rest will be featured, along with some beer that may be unfamiliar to those of you in Londontown.
I’ve decided to do this project because we have some pretty damn good beer in America, and although I LOOOOOVE my English ales (and Scottish whisky… and Scottish gin…), I wanted to reacquaint myself with the microbreweries of the USA. Plus, for those of you in the UK or in other places outside of the US, I think this would be a nice introduction of the diverse beer scene that’s thriving here in Yankeeland, especially for readers who are only familiar with Pabst, Budweiser and Miller High Life. ”No, really, we do have good beer here, honest!”
To accomodate this new project, there’ll be a bit of site restructuring in the next few days or so, but I’ve already started the project with one beer down (ooh, exciting!), and hope to make posting new updates to the project pretty regularly. Unlike during most of my work on the 100 Pubs Project, I’m not working on an MA at the moment, so I have much more free time to putter around, drink beer, and write about it. Also, since I work at Stardust, I have access to a wide variety of different beers. Have you seen their beer cooler? It’s beautiful.
Thank you, employee discount.Of course, not all of those beers are American–if you look closely you should be able to spot some lovely brews from St Peter’s Brewery of Suffolk, and maybe some Brazilian Xingu. But Orlando is home to not only places like Stardust with outstanding beer selections, but also home to Redlight Redlight, an establishment that can only be described as the haunt for a true beer connoisseur. I won’t have a problem finding 50 beers of American origin between Stardust and Redlight by any means.
But I am anticipating problems in finding beers from each 50 states. Many regional beers don’t make it outside of their region. Even beers with fairly sizeable names, like Yuengling, are restricted to certain markets. What’s commonplace in upstate New York can be a rare if not impossible find in central Florida or on the coast of California. Barring some sponsorship from the publishing or media worlds (holla!), I’m restricted to my ample environs of Orlando, so my selections are going to be restricted by what’s available in my state and regional market. We do get beers from other states here, of course, but not every state from what I’ve seen. I don’t think I’ve seen any beer from Alaska in Orlando, for example, and it’s not like they don’t have any breweries. Hawaiian beer? Although there are places on line where people can do beer swaps (seriously) via mail, in many cases, I’ll only be having one bottle or pint of a particular beer, so it seems like a lot of fuss just to get one bottle sent over from, say, Nevada.
So, unless someone decides to pay me some cash to rent an ol’ convertible that runs on vegetable oil to drive around the continental 48 and fly to the other two (*ahem!*), I’ll be blogging from a regional standpoint of the Southeast, particularly Florida. It would be interesting if anyone else in the United States in a different region would do a project like this, so that we could see how regional differences play into the available choices for a beer consumer. Plus, it would be lovely to read about someone else’s beer adventures in a different city. If anyone would like to do a similar project, feel free to contact me so we can swap links and LET OUR POWERS COMBINE.
HOW TO VOLUNTEER
May 16, 2011
Experience the festival from the inside–be a volunteer! The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) works with more than 3,200 volunteers over the course of several months to put on this great event. In 2010, volunteers worked more than 52,000 hours! Don’t worry; there are some serious perks for all of that hard work.
There are a wide variety of volunteer opportunities at the GABF. Benefits may be earned according to the number of days, shifts and areas worked. Opportunities include pouring beer, greeting attendees, working in merchandise, and helping with sustainability efforts, to name a few.
We welcome your participation in the Brewers Association’s 30th annual Great American Beer Festival. Please visit our Volunteersection after June 1 for all the details, opportunities and sign up form.
BIG FESTIVAL, BIG NUMBERS, BIG TIME
May 16, 2011
We’re gonna give it to you straight. There is no way to truly explain the gigantic scale of GABF other than to actually experience the festival. But, we think these numbers paint a pretty clear picture on why this is the craft beer event of the year!
- 3 days
- 4 sessions
- 49,000 attendees
- 450+ breweries
- 2,200+ beers
- 36,000 gallons of beer
- 100 tons of ice
- 3,400 volunteers
- 54,000 volunteer hours
If you plan to make the most out of this opportunity to sample so many of America’s great beers, we suggest you purchase an All Session Pass, which will allow you to spread out your tasting across the three days and four sessions of the festival.
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