Pabst To Open Milwaukee Brewery Dedicated To Archival Brews

Pabst Brewing Co. owner Blue Ribbon Intermediate Holdings is returning to its Milwaukee roots. The company will open brewing operations for a handful of Pabst’s historic beers in a renovated Milwaukee church that once housed the Pabst offices. The site, west of downtown Milwaukee, closed in 1996 after a century of operation. The new facility will receive a $3-4-million investment, and is expected to open next year.

The facility will produce just 2,000 barrels annually and serve as a test brewery for recipes taken from Pabst’s archives. Labels to be brewed at the site are expected to include Old Tankard Ale, Kloster Beer, Bock and Andeker, among others. Those beers will be sold at an on-site tavern and retail stores around the city, and potentially in Chicago as well. The core Pabst Blue Ribbon will continue to be contract-brewed in Milwaukee at the MillerCoors brewery.

Blue Ribbon Intermediate Holdings, a partnership between San Francisco-based TSG Consumer Partners and entrepreneur Eugene Kashper, completed its acquisition of the 170-year-old Pabst Brewing Company last fall for an estimated $700 million. Aside from its namesake offering, Pabst’s portfolio includes Schlitz, Old Milwaukee and Old Style.

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