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LilMikeSFLilmikesf@c.im
2023-10-31

#OTD in 1999 the Kingsbury #Beer brand, originally of #Mantiwoc #Wisconsin was killed off in a #corporate restructuring after merging assets of Stroh's into #Pabst. The move was made by bean counters running the beer empire created by maverick iron fisted leveraged buyout legend #PaulKalmanovitz of S&P General Brewing, who in the 1970's infamously began consolidating regional powerhouse US #breweries such as Falstaff, Lucky, Olympia, Pearl under one umbrella, stripping assets and selling off the real estate. Kalmanovitz, an immigrant industrialist who once sold his coat after arriving penniless from Poland in the US after WWI, died in 1987 but his legacy lives on in a #PrivateEquity empire run by #trustees, and acts of #philanthropy from his fortune that have funded wings at educational institutions like UCSF and UC Davis.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31 MANITOWOC - The King is-dead. Kingsbury Beer, that is. The “Aristocrat of Beers” — a friend to working stiffs across Wisconsin — will never grace local taverns or Packer coozies again. The label that was made famous with jolly advertising slogans like Come Swing with a King” was killed off in corporate consolidation when what was left of Strohs eas bought by Pabst ownership. It was announced the brand would be discontinued July 31, a victim of Pabst Brewery's president of operations buyout of the Strohs Brewery. The low-cost brew was created and first brewed in Manitowoc in the early 1930s. Most recently, Strohs brewed Kingsbury in La Crosse but the plant was shut down. Collectors are buying up old advertising signs , branded merch and the remaining cans and bottles on store shelves.File photo of beer industry brand consolidator Paul Kalmanovitz

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