Pabst again brewing in Milwaukee

... after a more than two decade absence - Opening Day today, in fact.

Oh, capacity of the brewery reduced somewhat - down from 5.5 million bbl/yr to 4,000.

https://pabstmkebrewery.com/

Nice - but very sad - "urban explorer" video of the actual original brewery. The copper kettles still there (!) - which must have the penny-pitching Paul Kalmonvitz rolling in his grave. Most of his other breweries which closed during his life were gutted, and, in many cases, the equipment shipped to China.

Gotta laugh at Pabst's "avoidance" of certain topics in its very complicated recent history. Their HISTORY webpage, for instance, jumps from 1958 to 2015

 

Not sure what you mean by "independent again" - they have had something like 5 different owners since the 1970s.

The largest percentage of the production is still brewed at MillerCoors facilities (which started in the late 1990s), with some smaller brands done at Cold Spring, City, etc.

 

If you want to see the old brewhouse, you have to visit the lobby of the Brewhouse Suites:


(They've cleaned up the place a bit since the video linked above).

A lot of the rest of the brewery complex is part of
Best Place at Pabst. Neither are owned or controlled by Pabst Brewing Co.

 

Pabst used to boast about its use of corn grits rather than the syrup that "some brewers" used as short cuts...

But that was back when there was a Pabst Brewing Co., rather than a contract-brewed beer marketing firm cobbled together by a charitable trust that grew out of the old S&P Corp.

A few years ago, the PBR website even admitted to corn syrup adjunct (which is the standard in many of the MC breweries):

 

Got a link to "BPR" - which I assume is a beer publication/website? Initials don't ring a bell for me.

The owner of Pabst Brewing Co. during the revival (which, by some accounts, was consumer-driven and Pabst was initially unaware and had to catch up with it) wasn't much better an employer.

The S&P Corp/Kalmanovitz Charitable Trust closed over a dozen breweries and destroyed hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs over the years, and even used a legal technicality to deny retirees their benefits when they closed Milwaukee.

Also, having a "charity" own the company for about 20 years was also an illegal tax dodge.

And, of course, the owners in-between the Trust and Kashpar/TSG - the Metropoulos family - didn't have that great a record with their employees, either:
Former Pabst executives bitter about shift in philosophy under new owners

 

But they - and their father - sold Pabst to Kashper and TSG Consumer Partners in 2014.