# What ever happened to Stroh's beer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** beer\ **Created:** [May 7, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875 "2005-05-07T23:57:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/1 "2005-05-07T23:57:57Z")
Stroh’s was my favorite beer once, but I haven’t seen a bottle of it since the '80s. Did they stop making it? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/2 "2005-05-08T00:02:25Z")
[It’s now a Pabst brand](http://www.tinsel.org/beer/strohs.html) according this site. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/3 "2005-05-08T00:06:07Z")
Strohs was a good cheap beer. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/4 "2005-05-08T00:49:49Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > [It’s now a Pabst brand](http://www.tinsel.org/beer/strohs.html) according this site. Good for Pabst, but why do I never see Stroh’s in a bar or a liquor store? Whereas I do see Pabst-label beer sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/5 "2005-05-08T01:05:57Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Good for Pabst, but why do I never see Stroh’s in a bar or a liquor store? Whereas I do see Pabst-label beer sometimes. Try the cheap can beer end of the beer aisle in a large supermarket. I’ve seen it there a few times. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/6 "2005-05-08T01:09:40Z")
If it’s really cheap, you might find it in convenience stores. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/7 "2005-05-08T01:46:02Z")
After Prohibition, they discovered that they could use their beer brewery equipment to make ice cream. Today Stroh’s is more well-known for making ice cream. I think the ice cream won out and that’s why you hardly see Stroh’s beer anymore. Who knows why they don’t use the brand name on beer? I guess they wanted to associate themselves with ice cream and not beer. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/8 "2005-05-08T01:51:33Z")
I used to find it at my cute-Sicilian-teenage-checkoutgirl wholesale beverage distributor, down on Fourth Avenue and Twelfth Street (see my dirty-old-man drooly thread from a few years back, probably in MPSIMS or someplace). I would get the 30-can packs that cost less than most regular cases. They carried Busch and Schlitz and Blatz and all the other blue-collar flatulent-sounding beers I used to enjoy so much. Now they’re a big hole in the ground, probably going to be the next big yuppie-Brooklyn condo development. I really do miss Stroh’s. My Czech grandpa, may he rest in peace, always loved it because the label read “Stroh’s **Bohemian** Beer.” ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/9 "2005-05-08T01:57:12Z")
Oh man! I loved Stroh’s. I discoverd it when a girlfriend and I went back to her hometown in Mich. for the Bicentennial in '76. Having grown up and lived in Fla. we never even heard of it down here. Everytime I have a friend going north I ask that they bring me back some but so far, nada. They are usually flying both ways. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/10 "2005-05-08T01:59:07Z")
It’s still readily available in PA. One of the big Stroh’s plants was along a major highway, and I remember the floor-to-ceiling windows facing the road such that you could look at the huge polished brewing vessels. The 30 packs are down here **Ukelele Ike** along with Iron City and Natty Boh. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/11 "2005-05-08T02:12:53Z")
I’ve seen it in supermarkets, usually on the far end of the beer aisle near Shaefer’s, Gennessee, Old Milwaukee, and Milkwaukee’s Be(a)st. Never tried it, though. I have a great affinity for Pabst Blue Ribbon, which seems to be experiencing a huge resurgence of popularity at “cool” bars, but is still relatively hard to find at supermarkets and convenience stores. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/12 "2005-05-08T02:33:26Z")
I remember ads for it in Georgia in the late 70s/early 80s: _From ONE beer loverrrr TO a-notherrrr STROH’s beer… Hoo-ray for STROOOOOHHHHHHS!_ Actually in retrospect I kind of doubt the last line was “Hooray for Stroh’s,” but that’s what I thought they were saying. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/13 "2005-05-08T02:37:40Z")
There was a funny TV ad in the 80’s(?). A man is crawling through the desert and comes upon a shack and an old geezer. The man asks the geezer if he has a Stroh’s beer. The geezer says, “No, but how about some cold water?” to which the man refuses, thanks him and goes back to crawling across the desert. ---
**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/14 "2005-05-08T02:38:33Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > After Prohibition, they discovered that they could use their beer brewery equipment to make ice cream. Today Stroh’s is more well-known for making ice cream. I think the ice cream won out and that’s why you hardly see Stroh’s beer anymore. Who knows why they don’t use the brand name on beer? I guess they wanted to associate themselves with ice cream and not beer. I’ve seen both Stroh’s and Pabts beer, but I’ve never seen Stroh’s Ice Cream. What part of the country are you in? ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/15 "2005-05-08T03:39:44Z")
> [@D-bear](#): > > I’ve seen both Stroh’s and Pabts beer, but I’ve never seen Stroh’s Ice Cream. What part of the country are you in? Well, his location says “Michigan”. 😉 Stroh’s ice cream is everywhere here. My city has a Stroh’s ice cream parlor. I really like their stuff; it’s not “OMG best ice cream ever!”, but pretty damn good. They have (parlor-only, I believe) a pineapple upside down cake flavor: vanilla and cinnamon ice cream with swirls of cinnamon-sugar syrup, pinapple pieces and chunks of pound cake. Mmm. But yeah, we have Stroh’s ice cream parlors, Stroh’s sold at the grocery store (which includes a normal line, a “Classics” line with old-tymey flavors, etc), etc. ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/16 "2005-05-08T03:56:30Z")
I used to love Stroh’s back in the 70’s. After they got bought out ( I think the first time was by Heilman Brewing) the fire brewing process went away and basically so did Stroh’s. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/17 "2005-05-08T05:16:46Z")
Stroh’s is still around, at least in my neck of the woods. It’s owned by Pabst now, which means it’s contract brewed by Miller (as Pabst no longer owns a brewery of its own.) Stroh’s is really cheap beer, right down there with Natty Light, the Beast, Old Milwaukee and Keystone. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/18 "2005-05-08T07:10:36Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > Strohs was a good cheap beer. I concur. Strohs, moreso than any other study aid, got me thru college. Actually, now that I think about it (with the few remaining brain cells I have) Shaffer’s was just as cheap, just as “good” and more available on the west coast. Just so you all know, I’m a “beer snob” now, and would only drink it if anybody wasn’t watchin’! Or someone else was buyin’! Or if someone offered me one. Or if it was coldest. Ah, hell! I’d drink it like a fish! ---
**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/19 "2005-05-08T07:57:05Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > Well, his location says “Michigan”. 😉 > > Stroh’s ice cream is everywhere here. My city has a Stroh’s ice cream parlor. I really like their stuff; it’s not “OMG best ice cream ever!”, but pretty damn good. They have (parlor-only, I believe) a pineapple upside down cake flavor: vanilla and cinnamon ice cream with swirls of cinnamon-sugar syrup, pinapple pieces and chunks of pound cake. Mmm. > > But yeah, we have Stroh’s ice cream parlors, Stroh’s sold at the grocery store (which includes a normal line, a “Classics” line with old-tymey flavors, etc), etc. Yeah I saw that after I posted, but I spent 18 years in mid-Michigan (near Saginaw) and I still have never heard of Stroh’s ice cream. Mooney’s yeah, but not Stroh’s ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875/20 "2005-05-08T09:22:33Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > After Prohibition, they discovered that they could use their beer brewery equipment to make ice cream. Today Stroh’s is more well-known for making ice cream. I think the ice cream won out and that’s why you hardly see Stroh’s beer anymore. Who knows why they don’t use the brand name on beer? I guess they wanted to associate themselves with ice cream and not beer. I’ve helped design piping systems for multiple breweries and can’t imagine how you could make that equipment produce ice cream. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-strohs-beer/302875.md?page=2)