BEER

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Is THAT what happened to Rolling Rock?

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Is THAT what happened to Rolling Rock?

It was privately owned in Latrobe with its own brewery and bottling plant. The unions got too greedy so that not having a wide assortment the company could not make a profit. However, the unions also negotiated that anyone who bought the brewery had to honor their greedy *** contract. So the owners sold the brand to Budweiser who moved it to a brewery they already owned that made their piss water at a price that would have been good for the whole deal, and the owners kept the building and shut everything down. Funny thing is this is a good brewery very recent, and the mayor and council wanted those taxes and jobs back. So they approached several brewers it even looked like Sam Adams was going to go there. However the Democrat mayor and council allowed the union reps to come to the meetings and they told the brewers they would have to hire all the exemployees back at their old wages and senioruty or they would not brew one damn bottle of beer.

Here is a test what do you think happened?

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It was privately owned in Latrobe with its own brewery and bottling plant. The unions got too greedy so that not having a wide assortment the company could not make a profit. However, the unions also negotiated that anyone who bought the brewery had to honor their greedy *** contract. So the owners sold the brand to Budweiser who moved it to a brewery they already owned that made their piss water at a price that would have been good for the whole deal, and the owners kept the building and shut everything down. Funny thing is this is a good brewery very recent, and the mayor and council wanted those taxes and jobs back. So they approached several brewers it even looked like Sam Adams was going to go there. However the Democrat mayor and council allowed the union reps to come to the meetings and they told the brewers they would have to hire all the exemployees back at their old wages and senioruty or they would not brew one damn bottle of beer.

Here is a test what do you think happened?

Just to update you on that situation: Iron city beer will soon be brewed in the old Rolling Rock brewery. Iron city just ceased production in Pittsburgh last month. Seems they ran up a $2 million tab with the water company that they neglected to pay.

So the Iron City brand is moving out to Latrobe, PA to start over. Hopefully they can find the old Rolling Rock recipe and start making a quality product. Iron City was always

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Just to update you on that situation: Iron city beer will soon be brewed in the old Rolling Rock brewery. Iron city just ceased production in Pittsburgh last month. Seems they ran up a $2 million tab with the water company that they neglected to pay.

So the Iron City brand is moving out to Latrobe, PA to start over. Hopefully they can find the old Rolling Rock recipe and start making a quality product. Iron City was always

The tab was for sewage not water. For those of you unfamiliar with Pa they are truely odd. Your sewer bill is figured out on the amount of water you use not the volume of product you remit. Since 98% of the water a brewery makes goes out in bottles and not form the drains the Sewage company was charging obscene amounts for sewage they never had to treat.

Other PA oddities

When buying beer if you want 1 or 2 six packs you buy at a bar. You cannot buy 3 six packs. But if you want a case you go to a distributor. You can not buy beer in a convenience store or grocery store

When buying alchohol you go to a state owned liquor store and get waited on by snotty over paid union employees who are state employees and cany get fired. They used to all be closed on Sunday until the state realized that they were losing money because people that lived closed to another state would go across state lines and buy there. So they decided that the stores within 10 miles of another state would open on Sunday the rest are still closed.

Whe moving to PA. You go to one place for your license another for road test and a 3rd for vehicle inspections, They do not take cash and do not mention it when you call about coming for a license. They also cannot tell you the cost over the phone so you must make 2 trips. To top it off you have 1 month to get all this done.

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The tab was for sewage not water. For those of you unfamiliar with Pa they are truely odd. Your sewer bill is figured out on the amount of water you use not the volume of product you remit. Since 98% of the water a brewery makes goes out in bottles and not form the drains the Sewage company was charging obscene amounts for sewage they never had to treat.

Other PA oddities

When buying beer if you want 1 or 2 six packs you buy at a bar. You cannot buy 3 six packs. But if you want a case you go to a distributor. You can not buy beer in a convenience store or grocery store

When buying alchohol you go to a state owned liquor store and get waited on by snotty over paid union employees who are state employees and cany get fired. They used to all be closed on Sunday until the state realized that they were losing money because people that lived closed to another state would go across state lines and buy there. So they decided that the stores within 10 miles of another state would open on Sunday the rest are still closed.

Whe moving to PA. You go to one place for your license another for road test and a 3rd for vehicle inspections, They do not take cash and do not mention it when you call about coming for a license. They also cannot tell you the cost over the phone so you must make 2 trips. To top it off you have 1 month to get all this done.

Sounds like a good place to be from,...

Oh yeah, so as not to thread jack...BEER