On Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 8:40:07 PM UTC-6, George Cornelius wrote:

There's still an Old Style?

Had a good friend - a retired MD - who lost his shirt on
Heilemann's (which was less than 100 miles from here and
presumably long since swallowed up by someone else). Seems
my friend had family ties of sorts. His contact - let's call
him a brother-in-law - was company treasurer and painted a
rosy picture of the company's future for a number of years.

I guess when everything goes sour, and it's not the mash, one
is morally and legally bound refrain from calling up the
brother-in-law and suggesting he might want to bail.

So now if you want to buy something locally brewed (other
than from Minneapolis/St.Paul where they still brew Pig's
Eye Pilsner) you buy something from the August Schell Brewery
in New Ulm, Minnesota. Plus you can still buy kegs of their
1919 Root Beer, the ostensible reason for the brewerey
remaining open during Prohibition.

There's also Liney's - but Chippewa Falls is quite a ways
from here. My MD friend always had Lineys around.

Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus, er, I mean an Old Style beer. Seehttp://oldstylebeer.com/

As of 2016, the former Heileman's flagship brewery in La Crosse is owned and operated by the City Brewing Company. The brewery chose to use the name that the former Heileman's used as its startup name in 1858-1872. City Brewing brews beer and packages bottled tea, soft drinks, and energy drinks.

It's probably a regional beer now. They used to advertise a lot on the Chicago Cubs radio broadcast. I am 11 blocks from the liquor store that carries it here in South Dakota.

Grain Belt beer http://grainbelt.com/ is not bad either. That is brewed just up yonder in Minnesota.