An important update for our cheap beer-drinking readers: National Bohemian isn’t going anywhere. The locally born brand’s parent company, Pabst Brewing, and beer behemoth MillerCoors yesterday reached a settlement in a Milwaukee court case, and the latter firm has agreed to continue brewing Pabst-owned sub-premium beers.
Per the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the deal was announced just as jurors were finishing their first day of deliberations. Pabst had sued, alleging MillerCoors violated the terms of a decades-old contract-brewing agreement—Pabst doesn’t have any of its own production facilities—by not agreeing to extend their contract through 2025. Had Pabst lost, the futures of its own Blue Ribbon brand, Natty Boh, Milwaukee’s Best, Rainier and around 20 other beloved regional cheap brews, hung in the balance.
In a statement given to Baltimore Fishbowl Thursday, a Pabst spokesperson said both sides “amicably resolved all outstanding issues in the case.”
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