Friday, May 22, 2026

Breitbart Re-Arranges History of Schlitz

Sadly, it's not hard to find egregious errors in media stories these days.

Here's one:

 ...Schlitz Premium, a beer brand that dates all the way back to Milwaukee in the 1840s, went from being one of the largest breweries in the U.S. to being placed “on hiatus,” its parent company Pabst Brewing Co. said on Friday....

There is no "Schlitz Premium" brand.  It's just Schlitz.

Here's a much larger error:

... The Schlitz brand was once the largest brewery in the U.S. before it was bought out by Anheuser-Busch in the 1950s...

WRONG.  Anheuser-Busch did not purchase Schlitz in the '50's.  Stroh purchased it in the '70's.

Egads. 

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