Pearl Brewing Company
The Pearl Brewing Company (also known as the Pearl Brewery or just Pearl) was an American brewery, established in 1883 in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA. In 1985, Pearl's parent company purchased the Pabst Brewing Company and assumed the Pabst name. In 1999, the Pabst Brewing Company began transferring its production to Miller Brewing, on a contract basis, and closing all of its breweries. Pearl beer is still in production at Miller's Ft. Worth, Texas facility, but the Pearl Brewery in San Antonio was closed in 2001. Since then, the former brewery was purchased by Silver Ventures, Inc., which has made the property the crown jewel in revitalization efforts of southern Midtown and northern Downtown San Antonio.
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Adolf Bremer died in 1939, while Otto carried on as president until his own death in 1951. After their deaths the brewery began its first of many economically challenging periods. By 1955, the company finally succumbed to its losses and sold the operation to a Pfeiffer Brewing Company from Detroit. The St Paul branch of the Pfeiffer Brewing Co. enjoyed nearly two decades of success, employing new marketing and advertising campaigns including the introduction of the scenic can series created by famous Minnesota artist Leslie Kouba.
The G. Heileman Brewing Company of LaCrosse, Wisconsin bought the brewery in 1972. Under new management the brewery became the fourth-largest brewery in the United States by 1981. In 1987, however, Alan Bond, an Australian corporate raider, purchased the brewery. Under Bond’s management the brewery did not have much success and was forced to close in 1990, despite the efforts of St. Paul’s city leaders to preserve the business and the hundreds of jobs that were lost.