Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Fans

Arrrgh! PBR makes me want to ralph! I wish they'd ban it in my state!

fr0glet

HA! He gotcha, frog, you gotta admit it!

I'm not a fan, but on my last trip to mainland China I inadvertently ended up with a canned PBR, which was probably brewed nearby. It tasted nothing like I remember (worse!). I did see three PBR billboards in Dongguan, though... (see picture link):

I believe PBR was one of the first Sino/US joint ventures in the PRC.

In China, I recommend you say this:

IIRC, when it closed, the Newark NJ Pabst brewery- which was a NYC metropolitan area landmark, next to the Garden State Parkway, with a huge quart beer bottle-shaped water tower- was gutted, with the entire wall of the brew-house knocked down so they could ship the brew kettles to China. The brewery actually began life as Hoffman Brewery, a long gone brand of beer, tho' their soda pop survived as a local metro for many years after Pabst bought the brewery.

If they're brewing Pabst in China, they're brewing a hell of a lot of it!

China took over the position of the world's No. 1 beer producer in 2002, according to a survey released by Japan's Kirin Brewery Co. Kirin attributed the increase in China's beer output to foreign beer brewers who have relocated production facilities to China, where beer consumption has been steadily growing. The United States fell to the second spot, while Germany remained third, followed by Brazil and Russia. Kirin's began the survey in 1974, and China first reached the top 20 in 1982.