Pabst

Pabst Brewing Company is discontinuing 175-year-old legacy light beer Schlitz – for the foreseeable future.

Brown-Forman and Pabst Brewing Company are ending their production, sales, marketing and distribution partnership for FMBs such as the whiskey brand’s Jack Daniel’s Country Cocktails after five years.

We’ve compiled our most read stories of the past year, and one company dominated the headlines (with not the sunniest lineup of news): Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B).

The nomination window is open for the 2026 Keg Champion awards, hosted by the Steel Keg Association (SKA), a non-profit group that promotes the use of stainless steel kegs.

Pabst Brewing has eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs, a spokesperson confirmed to Brewbound. Although rumors swirled over the weekend that the cuts could amount to as much as 40% of Pabst’s workforce, the spokesperson said those estimates were more than double the actual impact.

Pabst Brewing is making changes to its c-suite, including the appointment of Greig DeBow as CEO, effective August 11. DeBow succeeds Paul Chibe, who had been in the CEO role since December 2021.

Pabst Brewing Company has tapped Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B) to help contract brew its beer, the company announced today.

Jack Daniel’s Country Cocktails Hard Tea is now available nationwide, following a six-month test period in select markets.

Pabst Brewing has taken its El Jimador Spiked Bebidas tequila-inspired flavored malt beverage (FMB) national, in just one of its several beyond beer innovation expansion plans for 2024.

Long-time Anheuser-Busch InBev marketing executive Andy Goeler will retire at the end of the year after a 43-year career with the world’s largest beer maker. Plus, leadership changes at Pabst, FIFCO USA, Orpheus and the Texas Craft Brewers Guild.

Pabst Brewing Company has tapped Anheuser-Busch InBev alum Paul Chibe to succeed Eugene Kashper as CEO. Kashper, who acquired Pabst with TSG Consumer Partners in 2014, will remain with the company as chairman of the board of directors.

Citing a “growing decline in” demand and sales, Pabst Brewing Company announced it is “temporarily pausing production” of the 125-year-old Olympia Beer brand.

2020 will see Captain Pabst’s final voyage. Pabst Brewing Company announced yesterday that the Captain Pabst Pilot House, its Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based brewery, taproom and event space, will permanently close on December 21.

The deal is finally done for Pabst Brewing Company to acquire the former Molson Coors production facility in Irwindale, California.