Pabst Up For Sale

American Voices

November 11, 2009 | ISSUE 45•46

The Pabst Brewing Co., owners of Pabst Blue Ribbon and Schlitz, is on the market for around $300 million. What do you think?

A whole brewery? That makes more sense than my original plan to buy 300 million individual cans."

Charlene Burnside
Paramedic
That's sad. You know whoever buys the brewery is just going to cut costs and make shitty beer."

Ronald Birkin
Wood Carving Machine Operator
Aw, man, I can't afford that! I'll have a Bud Light instead."

Alan Wong
Systems Analyst

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