Schlitz, a cautionary tale

There are still quite a few of the old Schlitz tap room buildings here.
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shoeless said:
Cool, those are fairly recent photos? Are they still operating?

I'm old enough to remember when Schlitz was everywhere. I don't remember the last time I saw a 6-pack of Schlitz in a store.
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They’re still operating as buildings, but not as anything specifically Schlitz oriented. The music venue Schuba’s is in an old Schlitz building and they had Schlitz on tap. I think you can buy a sixer around town if you’re into that sort of thing.

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shoeless said:
Or, how the bean counters ruined a perfectly good product.

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My Grandpa and my Dad drank Schlitz in the 70's... my Dad switched to PBR and that was his go-to until he passed away about a decade ago.

We did a guided tour of the PBR campus in Milwaukee a few years ago in tribute of him.

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It cracks me up the way the video says something about "human decisions" at the end... in an obviously AI voice.


Maybe this is the first of the AI documentaries about the "Fall of Humans". :messedup:

 
baimun said:
My Grandpa and my Dad drank Schlitz in the 70's... my Dad switched to PBR and that was his go-to until he passed away about a decade ago.

We did a guided tour of the PBR campus in Milwaukee a few years ago in tribute of him.

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It cracks me up the way the video says something about "human decisions" at the end... in an obviously AI voice.


Maybe this is the first of the AI documentaries about the "Fall of Humans". :messedup:

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Nice. That's an impressive inlay.

When I went to my neice's wedding several years ago in St. Louis, we toured the original Anheuser-Busch/Budweiser brewery. It too was an old brick building. It had a pretty cool museum about their history. I find it interesting how we went from local/neighborhood breweries to prohibition that killed them, then to national dominance by the breweries that survived, and now back to local brews.

My takeaway from the Bud museum was how they stayed alive during prohibition by transitioning to soft drinks. But in doing so, they created a large distribution infrastructure. Then when prohibition ended, they were poised for widespread beer distribution that helped establish their dominance. That lasted quite a while, but the trend nowadays seems to be going back to local, higher quality beers. At least that's the case around here (MD).

Here's a pic from St. Louis.

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The buildings are cool but from what I remember Schlitz was a pretty crappy beer. Worse than PBR or Hamms or Carlings Black Label. Strohs was big at keg parties and I faintly remember it tasting like soap.
 
Dew Knot Humps said:
The buildings are cool but from what I remember Schlitz was a pretty crappy beer. Worse than PBR or Hamms or Carlings Black Label. Strohs was big at keg parties and I faintly remember it tasting like soap.
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I think it was pretty standard American style lager in its prime. But by the mid to late 70s, the quality went down. At least that's what the video states. That sounds about right to me.

You can still get these bad boys, if you dare.

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Everyone blames the accountants, but it's the operations people who make the bad decisions. This accountant-phobic propaganda has been dually noted.
 
jaxn slim said:
Everyone blames the accountants, but it's the operations people who make the bad decisions. This accountant-phobic propaganda has been dually noted.
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Fucking pencil pushers have no idea how anything works and just want to point at th spreadsheets and dodge responsibility. Typical.
 
Peen Simmons said:
Fucking pencil pushers have no idea how anything works and just want to point at th spreadsheets and dodge responsibility. Typical.
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Yeah, that's literally what accounting is: recording what's happened, usually in a spreadsheet. If you're making bad decisions, point that ugly finger in the mirror, pal.
 
jaxn slim said:
Yeah, that's literally what accounting is: recording what's happened, usually in a spreadsheet. If you're making bad decisions, point that ugly finger in the mirror, pal.
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Who financialized the whole economy? Not ops. Everyone here is too drunk and can’t count to five.
 
jaxn slim said:
Oh, I see. You're mad at the Finance guys. They're down the hall.
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Who enables them? If you just stepped away from the numbers for a moment, things would be a lot better.

I mean, you all basically did Enron and now you want the benefit of the doubt?
 
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