In article , writes:
It's probably a regional beer now. They used to advertise a lot on the Chic=
ago 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.

Grain Belt has been owned by various players, including Heileman's. A
quick glance at the Wikipedia page, though, indicates that it is now an
August Schell brand.

From a Wikipedia article concerning the history of St. Paul's Jacob
Schmidt, another regional brewery, we get a picture of Heileman's
rise and fall, with Grain Belt and others going along for the ride:

"As with prior owner Pfeiffer Heileman purchased smaller struggling
breweries with regional bases, and again Schmidt's brewery was one of
many in a vast beer empire, the brewery though ran at near capacity while it
[per]severed under Heileman and rivaled the La Crosse brewery, in efficiency.
Along with its own brand the Brewery brewed Heileman's flagship brand Old
Style, as well as Blatz, Grain Belt and Hauenstein. By 1981 Heileman was
the 4th largest Brewing Company in the country. Still without a nationally
recognized brand it was vulnerable to competition, in 1987 the company was
bought out by corporate raider Alan Bond who had built his empire on junk
bonds and when they crashed lost everything causing Heileman to be a
[casuality] of the largest financial collapse in Australian history and by
1990 brewing on the (Schmidt Brewery) site would cease for the first time
since in 1855."

That site was actually revived for brewing Pig's Eye for a time, but is
now being converted to lofts as part of a larger housing project on
St. Paul's Seventh Street.

George