Joseph Schlitz was just 20 years old when he came to Milwaukee from Mainz, Germany. He got his start by working as a bookkeeper in August Krug's brewery and took over the company following Krug's ...

Old Milwaukee Days (a precursor to Summerfest) and the Circus Parade. Famous slogans: “The beer that made Milwaukee famous”; “When you’re out of Schlitz, you’re out of beer.” ...

MILWAUKEE (AP)- It’s the beer that made Milwaukee famous. Now Schlitz is making the city nostalgic. That beer with the old-time mystique is back on shelves in bottles of its original formula in ...

It is, after all, the beer that made Milwaukee famous. Before the formula switch I drank both Pabst and Schlitz with equal frequency. I was very excited to hear that Schlitz had changed. The old ...

The museum sits within a converted fire station that’s over a hundred years old. It now serves ... Pabst and Schlitz. The rise of Milwaukee’s beer industry created jobs and opportunities ...

But Milwaukee’s popular moniker ... yellowish bricks are the main material in a number of old buildings across the city: the former Schlitz brewery, Holy Trinity Church (now known as Our Lady ...

Last chapter: After Schlitz shut the doors of its sprawling Milwaukee brewery following a 1981 strike, the company was sold in 1982 to Stroh Brewery Co., which shut it down. The old brewery ...