Paul kalmanovitz biography
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Brookston Beer Bulletin
Kalmanovitz was born in Łódź, Poland. His family emigrated to Egypt at the end of the World War I and he later worked for Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby. Kalmanowitz arrived in the United States in the 1926 by jumping a merchant marine ship and jumped from job to job, working for several notable people such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, and Louis B. Mayer (MGM).
In 1950 Kalmanovitz acquired the Maier Brewing Company in Los Angeles, California and officially entered the brewing industry. Maier Brewing, makers of Brew 102, struggled for a number of years, and in 1958 faced a strong push to be bought out by the Falstaff Brewing Company. Kalmanovitz refused to be bought out, even after being threatened by Falstaff to either sell or Falstaff would bury the Maier Brewery. Within a few years Kalmanovitz turned the Maier Brewery around and began making a profit. Along with the brewery and numerous other investments, Kalmanovitz’s net w
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Brewing beer has been a central industry in Milwaukee since the mid-nineteenth century and frames the city’s identity—more than any other single industry. According to Thomas Cochran, one of the industry’s major historians, “Milwaukee’s beer became famous throughout the world within the course of the first three decades of its manufacture.”[1] The city and the industry grew up tillsammans and have prospered and weathered several phases of boom and bust, changes in taste, and in the political regulation, taxation and prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
Pioneer Brewing in Milwaukee
Milwaukee’s brewing industry formed in the early 1840s, and developed rapidly along with the burgeoning frontier settlement. European immigrants brought both a local market for traditional beer styles of their homelands and the skilled brewers able to produce such beverages. Although German brewers are most known for their role in shaping the industry from its earliest origins, it was a group of Welsh im
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USA: Pabst Brewing Co. has discontinued selling Falstaff beer
Pabst Brewing Co. of San Antonio, TX, USA has discontinued selling Falstaff beer, which once was an icon in the St. Louis area's rich brewing history, St. Louis Post-Dispatch communicated on June 3.
Pabst, which owns the Falstaff brand, decided to stop selling the beer because of decrease in sales, said Allen Hwang, Pabst's marketing director. Pabst only sold 1,468 barrels of Falstaff nationwide last year, and that figure was falling, he said. "It's now at such a low rate that we couldn't sustain any type of minimum (production) run on the product," Hwang said. Last month, Pabst shipped the last cases of Falstaff beer to wholesalers.
The brewer hasn't yet decided what to do with the brand, such as selling it to another company. "Right now we're evaluating what we're going to do," Hwang said. Paul Smith, co-owner and bar manager at St. Louis restaurant Mangia Italiano is sorry to see Falstaff disappear. "We sell