Who owns OLD GERMAN BEER?

OLD GERMAN BEER is owned by

PITTSBURGH BREWING CO

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Old German beer was first produced by the German Brewing Company, founded by Warren C. White, in Cumberland, Maryland in 1901. The brewery later changed its name to Liberty Brewing Company to avoid any connotation of a relationship to Germany with the entrance of the United States into World War I in 1917, and then again to Queen Company from 1920-1933. It then reverted to German Brewing Company again, only to be renamed to Queen City Brewing Company finally for similar reasons with World War II beginning in 1941.

In 1974, the brewery was purchased by the Pittsburgh Brewing Company, and the Old German brand was retained while production moved up north to Pennsylvania. By 1986, Pittsburgh Brewing was failing, and was acquired by Bond Brewing Holdings based out of Perth, Australia. That company also owned the G. Heileman Brewing Company, and in 1988 the two were merged into one company. However, the marriage was short lived, as Bond sold off Heileman in 1991, and sold Pittsburgh separately the following year to entrepreneur Michael Carlow’s Pittsburgh Food & Beverage Company. Carlow was soon under investigation for fraud, however, and when he was imprisoned in 1995, Pittsburgh Brewing was sold to Keystone Brewing Company (unrelated to the Molson Coors Keystone Beer) in bankruptcy court.

When Keystone itself went bankrupt in 2005, it was purchased again by Unified Growth Partners, who renamed it back to Iron City Brewing, the company’s original name. It was finally sold again in 2018 to Clifford Forrest III, the owner of Rosebud Mining, a coal mining company which had faced criticism for its chemical spill in 2014 which left 300,000 people without drinking water. Forrest renamed the company back to Pittsburgh Brewing.

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