Wilkes-Barre's Brewery Glory Days (Pittston, Edwardsville: home, refrigerator, neighborhood)

[Mr Yuk]

Originally Posted by NYRangers 2008

I don't drink much anymore like I used to. When I do drink a beer, I like a full bodied one. Sam Adams, Molson XXX, Killian's Irish Red all have a good bite. If you want a good beer, try a German one. I recommend Weihenstephaner, a Bavarian style premium beer, it blows all of the domestic light crap and suds water away.

That's how I am....I'd rather one good beer over a case of crappy beer. I don't drink often either, but if I do have a beer, I'm not wasting my time on garbage like Coors Light, etc....give me a good dark beer, a wheat beer, or a microbrew.

[Magritte25]

My husband drinks German beer NYRangers. I've tried it and it's not my thing. But I know a lot of people who really like it.

[Jungle George]

Originally Posted by go phillies

That's how I am....I'd rather one good beer over a case of crappy beer. I don't drink often either, but if I do have a beer, I'm not wasting my time on garbage like Coors Light, etc....give me a good dark beer, a wheat beer, or a microbrew.

When we were in St Augustine last week, I tried a Sam Adams Blueberry Beer... I wasn't sure if it'd be great or disgusting....

I figured I'd live on the edge since I was on vacation & actually, it was pretty good!!

I bought a 6-pack of Stegmeier when we were up in NEPA over Xmas & left them at our friend's house in NY, so I STILL haven't tried it. My dad drank nothing else when we were in NEPA...

[Friscoman]

Originally Posted by PITTSTON2SARASOTA

I recall when I was a child(during the Cretaceous...period)that W.B. was the headquarters of Planters Peanuts. I also remember that W.B. was like a little Milwaukee....lots of breweries.....regional importance. I can recall 5 hometown breweries, I may be wrong with one or two and I know the spelling is wrong. (1)Stegmaier(2)Genessee(3)Gibbons(4)Black Label(5)Ballantine. Anyone have any additional breweries I missed or other facts about W.B. I missed like Planters. We were the first in the nation to get cable...HBO. And where did W.B.'s sidewalk canopies go!!!!!

Just browsing here, and saw the posts on the beer. My father grew-up in Wilkes-Barre in the early 1900s, then moved to California. He lived in a two story building atop what was a furniture store (now the whole building is a small, old apartment building). It's down the block from the Gibbons Brewery. The brewery was owned by his school buddy, Izzy Smulowitz's family. The Smulowitz family came and visited us in California in the late 1950s. They brought us kids all kind of company-logo trinkets like posters, pencils, etc. I sure wish I still had those. I remember that William was the oldest of his boys. Ahhh the memories. I last visited Wilkes-Barre in 2000.

[odessa3]

I remember the peanut shop in Wilkes-Barre! I remember they had a big map on the wall of the USA done in colored peanut shells. I wish Wilkes-Barre had a brewpub- how cool if the Lion Brewery would open one at their brewery. When I travel I always look for brewpubs in the town I am in. I love to try local microbrews, love the atmosphere, and they always have good food, too!

[sheena12]

Do they still brew Stegmier? I have seen the empty brewery many times and I just assumed that they went the way of many local breweries.

[Jungle George]

Originally Posted by sheena12

Do they still brew Stegmier? I have seen the empty brewery many times and I just assumed that they went the way of many local breweries.

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[Gerania]

Originally Posted by Friscoman

Just browsing here, and saw the posts on the beer. My father grew-up in Wilkes-Barre in the early 1900s, then moved to California. He lived in a two story building atop what was a furniture store (now the whole building is a small, old apartment building). It's down the block from the Gibbons Brewery. The brewery was owned by his school buddy, Izzy Smulowitz's family. The Smulowitz family came and visited us in California in the late 1950s. They brought us kids all kind of company-logo trinkets like posters, pencils, etc. I sure wish I still had those. I remember that William was the oldest of his boys. Ahhh the memories. I last visited Wilkes-Barre in 2000.

I grew up not that far from the Gibbons Brewery. I knew a few members of the Smulowitz family, not the brewery owners, but cousins, in laws etc. I'll always remember the 'clink, clink' sound from the bottling plant.

[sheena12]

Interesting link George! Thanks!

[PITTSTON2SARASOTA]

Originally Posted by Friscoman

Just browsing here, and saw the posts on the beer. My father grew-up in Wilkes-Barre in the early 1900s, then moved to California. He lived in a two story building atop what was a furniture store (now the whole building is a small, old apartment building). It's down the block from the Gibbons Brewery. The brewery was owned by his school buddy, Izzy Smulowitz's family. The Smulowitz family came and visited us in California in the late 1950s. They brought us kids all kind of company-logo trinkets like posters, pencils, etc. I sure wish I still had those. I remember that William was the oldest of his boys. Ahhh the memories. I last visited Wilkes-Barre in 2000.

Thanx for posting..I just remember an awful lot of local brewers and the HUGE Stegmaier one. I remember Planter's Peanuts being centered in Wilkes-Barre too. And in Pittston; the Pittston Stove Company and Brink's...A PITTSTON company(I think coal mainly).....memories.....