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Re: I just sent this to Pabst Brewing Co
« Reply #15 on: November 04, 2010, 08:02:39 pm »
The blue ribbon in Pabst Blue Ribbon was the award Pabst won at the World's Columbia Expostion 1893 aka the Chicago World's Fair
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Re: I just sent this to Pabst Brewing Co
« Reply #16 on: November 05, 2010, 02:21:03 pm »
It's really sad that we have to associate the legend of Ballantine with Pabst :'(

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Re: I just sent this to Pabst Brewing Co
« Reply #17 on: November 09, 2010, 02:28:21 pm »
What's this??? PBR bashing???? Shame on you all! >:(

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Re: I just sent this to Pabst Brewing Co
« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2010, 02:55:28 pm »
It just evens out the strength of your defense of them, Chumley! 
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Re: I just sent this to Pabst Brewing Co
« Reply #19 on: November 10, 2010, 06:53:56 pm »
I drank quite a bit of PBR as a youngster, and found it to be my favorite variety of 'bland American mega-swill'.  Someone should really think about getting trademark protection for that phrase  ;)
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Re: I just sent this to Pabst Brewing Co
« Reply #20 on: November 10, 2010, 07:59:12 pm »
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.
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Re: I just sent this to Pabst Brewing Co
« Reply #21 on: November 11, 2010, 02:17:21 pm »
I had to see what Schlitz translated to, and it is "slot".

Stroh translates to "straw", BTW.
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Re: I just sent this to Pabst Brewing Co
« Reply #22 on: November 11, 2010, 03:57:23 pm »
I'll refrain from trying to translate Schmidt.
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Re: I just sent this to Pabst Brewing Co
« Reply #23 on: November 11, 2010, 04:07:42 pm »
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.
 


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Re: I just sent this to Pabst Brewing Co
« Reply #24 on: November 11, 2010, 04:22:19 pm »
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.
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Re: I just sent this to Pabst Brewing Co
« Reply #25 on: November 11, 2010, 06:16:32 pm »
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.

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.  ::)


 



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Re: I just sent this to Pabst Brewing Co
« Reply #26 on: November 11, 2010, 06:20:52 pm »
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.

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).  
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Re: I just sent this to Pabst Brewing Co
« Reply #27 on: November 11, 2010, 06:39:24 pm »
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.

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.  ::)

One of the strangest is 'Fletcher'.  This is the guy who glues the feathers onto arrows (not a big job market currently).
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Re: I just sent this to Pabst Brewing Co
« Reply #28 on: November 11, 2010, 07:27:15 pm »
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.
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Re: I just sent this to Pabst Brewing Co
« Reply #29 on: November 11, 2010, 10:40:01 pm »
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.

OK all youse brainiacs... What IS the German word for skunk piss then, ay?
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