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Old 06-04-2010, 07:09 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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Kinda like PBR now? Seems like similar thing to me. Nothing has changed about PBR the beer, just the image.
PBR's image (and price point) hasn't changed. What's changed is what its image now represents to those who revived it, namely a simultaneous backlash against the conformity of the "big" labels (Bud, Miller) and the bourgeois pretensions of craft-beer mania. It's the "two-buck Chuck" of beers.
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Old 06-04-2010, 07:41 AM
 
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PBR's image (and price point) hasn't changed. What's changed is what its image now represents to those who revived it, namely a simultaneous backlash against the conformity of the "big" labels (Bud, Miller) and the bourgeois pretensions of craft-beer mania. It's the "two-buck Chuck" of beers.
well put
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Old 06-04-2010, 07:55 AM
 
Location: Macao
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Frisco Melt? San Franciscans don't even like their city referred to as 'Frisco', let alone naming food after a name they don't like. I've also never heard of a 'Frisco Melt'.

The rest of the thread is interesting. Fries on a sandwhich....I'm fairly indifferent...but it is a slight relief that not the entire city is entirely in love with it either Still, I'm curious to sample it.
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Old 06-04-2010, 07:57 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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My dad has actually started drinking PBR because it's apparently the only "American" beer brand still owned by an American company. He also told me that it's actually owned by the Little Sisters of the Poor, so they don't pay taxes on it, but I don't know if that's really true.
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Old 06-04-2010, 08:15 AM
 
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To call Rolling Rock a Pittsburgh beer is a stretch. I don't think anyone outside the region has any idea where Latrobe is, and Rolling Rock isn't really associated with Pittsburgh outside the region except maybe by members of the Pittsburgh diaspora.
You would be surprised what local products/towns are associated with Pittsburgh. Besides a lot of people familiar with Rolling Rock, I have come across those who have heard of Slippery Rock, PA. Nobody outside of the region had ever been there, but they were familiar with it. I remember a trip to a Michigan football game. 100,000+ cheered when it was announced that Slippery Rock was winning their football game.
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Old 06-04-2010, 08:17 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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I don't know anyone outside the SWPA region who associates Rolling Rock with Pittsburgh.
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Old 06-04-2010, 08:47 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh area
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My dad has actually started drinking PBR because it's apparently the only "American" beer brand still owned by an American company. He also told me that it's actually owned by the Little Sisters of the Poor, so they don't pay taxes on it, but I don't know if that's really true.
Tell him the Pabst brand is owned by an outfit based in Chicago, yes, but they contract out ALL brewing to MillerCoors (one of the two giants which are effectively foreign controlled) so he's not really getting the full effect. If he is going to the trouble to support American owned, he should buy something from a smaller brewer that actually brews. Of course, that's probably gonna cost more. No sign of charity ownership for that Pabst company that I found.
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Old 06-04-2010, 08:55 AM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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I don't know anyone outside the SWPA region who associates Rolling Rock with Pittsburgh.

It was always mentioned as being from Latrobe. And since it got bought out by A-B and moved to New Jersey, it's not real popular around here. Some local taverns no longer serve it since so many lost jobs.
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Old 06-04-2010, 09:05 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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Yes, it's always mentioned as being from Latrobe. And that's why nobody outside the region associates it with Pittsburgh, because nobody outside of the region associates Latrobe with Pittsburgh. They don't even know where Latrobe is in relation to Pittsburgh or any other part of Pennsylvania unless they consult a map. The bottom line is, Pittsburgh is not "best known" for beer like somebody claimed upthread.
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Old 06-04-2010, 09:57 AM
 
Location: New Kensington (Parnassus) ,Pa
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True, nothing remarkable about, it's just a Pittsburgh icon.
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