| Author | Message | ||
     Tramp |
So I found this little bit about new "green" (  )manufacturing tech. with Bud/AB, and, yesterday, (through my automatic 'greenwash' usage monitor) I was browsing through a 2005 book about Pennsylvania breweries (I was in Borders while my better half was dress-shopping), and noted that the Belgian firm that bought Bud already owned the Old Latrobe Brewery in 2005 (?!??!) ..so was this, in effect, a trade between the two parent firms, or does the big Belgian firm now own both Bud and rolling rock, or just the other brands of Old Latrobe?? Anyone? -confused and greenwashed to death in the OC  (Message edited by tramp on August 03, 2008) | ||
| Spiderman |
Kinda related but cool. I went to look up greenwashed, never heard the term, and found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwash You are bloody everywhere!  | ||
| Xl1200r |
I wasn't aware that Old Latrobe was anything but Rolling Rock, and I hadn't heard that they had been bought. Though, it's probably been since at least 2005 that I've had a Rolling Rock. | ||
| Tramp |
I'm not sure if they had anything other than rolling rock, which was bought by Anheuser Busch ("and how's your pecker, ya pervert?") earlier this year. | ||
| Miamiuly |
So long as they don't mess with my free budweiser email account I don't really care. We don't own most of this country anymore anyway. | ||
| Not_purple_s2 |
I've never owned any of it. I probably inherit a few acres one day but who knows. | ||
| Spatten1 |
It's good that RR got bought out, for Pennsylvanians. You can't buy beer in 6-packs or in convenience stores in PA due to the RR family lobby. You have to buy at a beer/wine store and only by the case. RR lobbied for these laws under the guise of protecting alchoholics from easy access to smaller volumes. The truth is that they wanted to keep consumers from being able to try singles or six-packs of new beers, and making it nearly impossible for smaller brewers to break-in to the PA market. It also kills the primary marketing of the big brewers which is through convenience stores and with smaller volumes. Hopefully one of the many corrupt anti-consumer bullshit laws in PA will go away. | ||
| Tramp |
But....the new stuff is NOT manufactured in old latrobe's glass-lined tanks, nor is it made from old Latrobe springwater. It's like the 1970s "Indian"-badged import dirt bikes. (Message edited by tramp on August 04, 2008) | ||
| Spatten1 |
nor is it made from old Latrobe springwater Water is really a big deal in beers, not really over-rated. I used to make a lot of English style beers and had to add certain minerals to the water I was using or the flavor wasn't quite right. By the way, I've pissed in Clear Creek, where all of the Coors water comes from. |
