Over at the Cincinnati Business Courier, Jon Newberry noted today that the great stink in Latrobe could affect some local Cinci brands of beer, such as Hudy Premium Beer (see Cincinnati Business Courier).
I don’t know nothin’ about Hudy, but I do know that it’s not uncommon for brands of beer to share production centers. Though Hudy is a Cincinnati, Ohio-proud beer, it’s brewed over in Latrobe, Pa. Hudy is a German-style beer. If you’re trying to find a case, check out a Kroger’s grocery store and bend over to peruse the lawnmower brews.
Brooklyn Growler reader David N. Lewis, age 32, of Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, wrote in to inform this here site that the previously noted City Brewing Co. of Latrobe, Pa. and Wherever, Wis. was also the maker of Wiedmann beer.
Wiedmann was a beer that was produced by the Geo. Wiedmann Brewing Company of Newport, Ky. The brewery has been closed since 1983. Newport, for all intents and purposes, is a part of the Cincinnati metro-area as it is just over the river and whatnot.
In its day, the Wiedmann brewery was not only synonymous with Newport, but it was also the Bluegrass State’s largest brewery. The brewery was founded sometime in the 1870s shortly after George Wiedmann moved to Kentucky from Germany.
Wiedmann described itself as a Bohemian-style beer. Bohemia is a region of Central Europe that is in the modern day’s Czech Republic.
A Bohemian beer is a lagered beer (cold stored; historically stored in caves) that is, essentially, a pilsner-style beer. If you’re trying to imagine what a Wiedmann tasted like, think about a cold Pabst Blue Ribbon on a hot day when you’ve just finished a physically exhausting task.
Let’s all raise a can of ghost beer and toast an unholy stink.
Photo of some Wiedmann beer cans via Kentucky Beer Cans, used without permission.
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