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The fancy new Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer 1844<\/strong> is coming to China with a fancy price tag: $44 a bottle. While forty-four bones is too much for almost any beer<\/a>, especially a PBR<\/strong>, it’s not just an overseas repackage. 1844<\/strong> is a whole new brew that’s spent some time in premium wooden casks. So, barrel aged? Interesting.<\/p>\n From the 1844<\/strong> ad copy:<\/p>\n It’s not just Scotch that’s put into wooden casks. \u2022 \u2022 \u00a0 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n UPDATE<\/strong>: “We just produced China’s first real specialty beer, an all-malt, reddish brown strong (15.7 plato) ale, dry hopped with Cascade (38 IBU) and aged in new uncharred American whiskey barrels \u2026 It’s being bottled in a nice looking 720-ml brown bottle with an enamel label and it is called Blue Ribbon 1844<\/strong>, a reference to Pabst<\/strong>‘s founding date. It will only be sold in China\u2026” Anyone in China wanna trade?<\/p>\n Original story at Danwei<\/a>. (via The New Yorker<\/a>)<\/p>\n \u2022 \u2022 \u00a0 \u2022 \u2022<\/strong><\/p>\n RELATED<\/strong>: This is not your hipster’s father’s PBR. [like] The fancy new Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer 1844 is coming to China with a fancy price tag: $44 a bottle. While forty-four bones is too much for almost any beer, especially a PBR, it’s not just an overseas repackage. 1844 is a whole new brew that’s spent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1932,987,633,1916,988],"class_list":["post-4978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","tag-china","tag-pabst","tag-pabst-blue-ribbon","tag-pabst-blue-ribbon-1844","tag-pbr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4978"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8862,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions\/8862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThere’s also Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer 1844.<\/em><\/strong>
\nMany world-famous spirits
\nAre matured in precious wooden casks
\nScotch whisky, French brandy, Bordeaux wine…
\nThey all spend long days inside wooden casks<\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nA Gawker<\/a> reader found 1844<\/strong> brewing notes from the brewmaster’s\u00a0Modern Brewery Age<\/strong> interview back in March:<\/p>\n
\n\u2014Alan Kornhauser
\nBrewmaster, Pabst China <\/strong>
\n(ex-Anchor Brewing<\/strong>, August Schell Brewing<\/strong>, and more)
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