Pabst owns Schlitz now too (via the Stroh buy-out).
I used to drink Schlitz dark in my early days, but then I found out that Schlitz is the German word for skunk piss.
I had to see what Schlitz translated to, and it is “slot”.
Stroh translates to “straw”, BTW.
I’ll refrain from trying to translate Schmidt.
So you don’t know any Germans? Schmidt is the German equivalent of Smith. Someone who makes something, usually in metal working. You know what a blacksmith is, I am sure.
In German, knife is messer and smith is schmidt. So in German someone who makes knives and swords was a Messerschmidt. One of the big centers of armour and sword making in midieval times in Germany was Augsberg. Augsberg was bombed to rubble at the end of WWII because the was a local firm that made fighter planes named after the founder, Willie Messerschmidt.
Yeah, from what I’ve been told Schmidlin is equivalent, just sort of local to Basel, Switzerland. When I flew into Basel a dozen years ago or so, the customs agent looked at my passport said “Schmidlin, eh?” and proceeded to talk to me in a string of Schweizerdeutsch I couldn’t really understand with my high school Hochdeutsch. My Grandfather was born in/near Basel.
Yep, and smith for blacksmith (I fancy myself a blacksmith) comes from the word smite meaning to strike. Like the smith does with his hammer. Blacksmith is for iron as it was considered black. Then there are (were) copper-smiths, tinsmiths, silversmiths, goldsmiths, and even more lately in history whitesmiths for aluminum and stainless. The more malleable alloys and grades of aluminum can be forged cold, although not a lot of people are doing it.
And tom, Ill bet your name comes somehow from the German word for smelt. Ill bet your ancestors worked foundries.
I love this stuff, how names come from trades, Baker, Carpenter, Brewer, which brings us back to the subject. :
The only beer I’ve had that truly tasted like skunk urine was sun-struck Heineken (nice green bottles, a-holes). I’ve not had a PBR in about 5 yr., but when I did I liked it a lot better than most mass-produced American lagers. Bud, in particular, is a lot like making love in a canoe (f****ing close to water).
One of the strangest is ‘Fletcher’. This is the guy who glues the feathers onto arrows (not a big job market currently).
To get back on the Pabst Ballantines subject, the name Cooper would apply, as they had some 800 barrel wooden tanks to take care of back in the day.
OK all youse brainiacs… What IS the German word for skunk piss then, ay?
Actually, I just looked up Schmidlin on ancestry.com
“South German: from a diminutive of Middle High German smit ‘blacksmith’, probably denoting a blacksmith who was the son of a blacksmith.”
So there you go.
Stinktierpiss
Spoken like a true South-Middle-High German!
Danke
Pabst may be trying the Gen X or new Yuppie thing, but they have made a showing at the GABF awards. Since 1990, six golds, three silvers, and a bronze in American Lager, Premium Lager and Light Lager. This does not include all the other beers associated under their beer flag. Medals in four straight years from 2004 - 2007 and the crowd always gives them a roar when announced during the Saturday awards ceremony. I guess there are quite a few of us that have a dark history with PBR in the way-back-when.
Here’s what they say about their flagship brew:
"Pabst Blue Ribbon
American Style Premium Lager
Pabst Blue Ribbon is a premium lager brew crafted with a hefty infusion of 6-row barley in its ingredient package, a carefully balanced carbohydrate profile from corn syrup, and a unique combination of Pacific domestic hops blended with an imported Yugoslavian variety. Fermented with a pure culture of yeast and aged at high gravity, PBR is cellared and finished to the smooth, robust likeness of a fine Pilsner.
144 calories
12.8 grams of carbohydrates"
I like PBR. Not all the time, but it or a good cream ale (Little Kings is made nearby) is good on a hot day, or after mowing the lawn. Try it. Put your judge hat on, and think about it compared to other examples. I’d pick those any time over competing BMC products. Boeuf.
Yes…Thank you…A close friend is a guy named Schmitz & I’m married to a Swedish/German goddess, so I was well aware.
Maybe I need to be less sutble & more funny with my humorous outbursts…Sorry.
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Or…Maybe you guys aren’t aware of “The brew that grew in the great Northwest”…http://schmidtbeer.com/
+1
PBR is good on occasion especially while cutting the lawn. I prefer it over all the other BMC’s.
It would be interesting to learn the results from a Category 1B competition including only the commercial examples from that category,
judged by some higher ranking BJCP judges.
PBR
MHL
Bud
Balitka 3
Kirin
Grain Belt
MG
LB
Coors
Fosters
A Zymurgy article in the making. ;D
Ahhh, Animal Beer! Been there, done that. I’d give PBR the win by a nose though… ;) Cheers!!