Kirby Nelson, brewmaster at Wisconsin Brewing Company in Verona, raises a toast to the legacy of Schlitz. The response to the potential loss of the beer has WBC officials hoping to someday bring the beer back into production.
Tom Koth of Deadwood, South Dakota, takes a sip of his Schlitz beer during an event Saturday at Wisconsin Brewing Company in Verona. The beer has been put on hiatus but WBC was given permission by Pabst, which owns the Schlitz brand, to re-create the beer using old brewery logs and notes.
Joe Holtgreive, left, and his wife, Suzzie Glunz, show off their matching Schiltz shirts at Wisconsin Brewing Company in Verona. Glunz's great-grandfather in Chicago was the first to bottle Schlitz outside of Milwaukee in the late 1800s.
Kirby Nelson, one of the deans of Wisconsin’s craft brewing industry, sits on a dwindling pallet of Schlitz beer. Nelson used old brewing logs purchased at an auction in 1985 at the then-closed brewhouse in Milwaukee to re-create a version close to the original recipe.
Tom Koth of Deadwood, South Dakota, takes a sip of his Schlitz beer during an event Saturday at Wisconsin Brewing Company in Verona. The beer has been put on hiatus but WBC was given permission by Pabst, which owns the Schlitz brand, to re-create the beer using old brewery logs and notes.
Kirby Nelson, brewmaster at Wisconsin Brewing Company in Verona, raises a toast to the legacy of Schlitz. The response to the potential loss of the beer has WBC officials hoping to someday bring the beer back into production.
Joe Holtgreive, left, and his wife, Suzzie Glunz, show off their matching Schiltz shirts at Wisconsin Brewing Company in Verona. Glunz's great-grandfather in Chicago was the first to bottle Schlitz outside of Milwaukee in the late 1800s.
Kirby Nelson, one of the deans of Wisconsin’s craft brewing industry, sits on a dwindling pallet of Schlitz beer. Nelson used old brewing logs purchased at an auction in 1985 at the then-closed brewhouse in Milwaukee to re-create a version close to the original recipe.
