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Falstaff Beer - College Term Papers

Falstaff Beer

was introduced in 1903 by the William J. Lemp Brewing Co.of St. Louis. Falstaff was a very popular premium beer. When prohibitioncame about Joseph Griesedieck purchased the Falstaff name and logo for $2000. He then reorganized his Forest Park Brewery Co. into the Falstaff Corporation. An intersesting note: Joseph's cousin's were also St. Louis area Brewers, with Stag and Griesedieck Brothers. Falstaff strugled through prohibition by making near beer (called HEK among other names), cured hams, and bacon. the Falstaff Corporation was the first brewery to recieve a permit to legally brew beer in the U.S. Immediatly Falstaff reorganized and became the Falstaff Brewing Corporation. They ...

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three plants in St. Louis. In 1952 Falstaff bough another Brewery in San Jose. That same year Falstaff closed the former Otto Stiffel brewery in St. Louis. In 1954 they bought the Bergoff Brewery in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. 1956 brought two more aquisitions a brewery in Galveston and the Mitchell Brewery in El Paso. The two ends of the Greisedieck family merged together in 1957. Greisedieck Brothers merged into Falstaff. Falstaff was able to close the old forest park Brewery.
Falstaff moved into the malting business in 1961 with the purchase of a malting plant in Chicago. Falstaff provided its own malt and sold malt to other brewers. Alvin Griesedieck died in 1961, leaving his son, Joseph II in charge.About this time Falstaff opened a animal feed operation, the feed operation was never a big sucess. In 1965 Falstaff bought the Narragantt Brewing Co. of Cranston, RI. this was a diaster.

The state of Rhode Island sued Falstaff for anti trust violations and it went all the way to ...

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Added: 2/15/2007 07:34:50 PM
Category: Economics
Type: Premium Paper
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