After a week off from Welcome to Thursdays, we travel to the much anticipated Pabst Brewery and Taproom. The brewery and taproom holds a very special place in Milwaukee, as it revived of one of the city’s historic breweries that made Milwaukee the brew capital of the world. After 152 years, Pabst Brewery closed in 1996 leaving a city betrayed; several decades later, thanks to growing interest from many hipsters, Pabst is once again brewing beer in Milwaukee (if you ignore that Miller has been brewing it down the street for many years). It’s even more fitting that a beer so loved and worshiped by its people now serves its great beer in a church for all to worship once again. So come join us this Thursday for a wonderful night at the Pabst Brewery and Taproom.
Now to start with a fictitious story. Thinking….Pondering….You know what? This is my article. Those fictitious stories written by my cousin and founder are his. I couldn’t compete with him anyway. Let’s face it, in order to write those articles you have to be in love with Old Milwaukee or a Windows Paint guru. Instead, what catches my attention when I am trolling the webs is a nice list, that easily sums up the article for me. So that’s what this is: a list.
This list is all about honoring two great Milwaukee icons: Summerfest and Pabst. So in honor of the bar we are attending this week and the wonderful festival that just ended last week, I’ve found seven artists in different genres, that honor and express emotional love towards that one and only brand of beer, Pabst.
Let’s start the list:
Genre: Rock
Artist: NOFX
Song: Quitter
Lyrics: The Charlie Chan’s chopped, Pabst pitcher been poured
You got a spare kidney and your liver looks bored
Genre: Alternative Hip hop
Artist: Macklemore & Ryan Smith
Song: Cowboy Boots
Lyrics: Cowboy boots doing lines at the bar
Where the time goes slow when you’re drinking PBR
Genre: Indie Pop
Artist: Lana Del Rey
Song: This Is What Makes Us Girls
Lyrics: Sneaking out and looking for a taste of real life
Drinking in the small town firelight (Pabst Blue Ribbon on ice)
Genre: Country
Artist: Chase Rice
Song: Pbj’s & Pbr’s
Lyrics: Couple dollars and some freedom was all we need to get us far
Yea, we were lookin’ like rockstars, shuttin’ down bars
From pbj’s & pbr’s
Genre: Ska Punk
Artist: Big D and the Kids Table
Song: Shining On
Lyrics: No money for pints at the bar
We bring a backpack full of Pabst
Oooooooo…
Under the table we fill our glass.
Genre: Hip hop, Rap
Artist: Yelawolf
Song: Change
Lyrics: Because I’m creative, smart and thrifty
‘Cause I take the shotgun, a PBR no sippin’
Jump in the Chevy through some Catfish Billy trippin’
Genre: Country
Artist: Johnny Russell
Song: Rednecks White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer
Lyrics: There’s no place that I’d rather be than right here
With my red necks, white socks and blue ribbon beer
Cheers to Pabst!
Your co-founder,
Kyle Stangel
*Keeping your glass filled and spirits high one Thursday at a time, this is Welcome to Thursdays: a local social group determined to make your Thursdays more fun. Each week, The Squeaky Curd features a Milwaukee County bar that we gather at on Thursday evening. Join us Thursday, July 12, 2018 at Pabst Milwaukee Brewery and Taproom, 1037 W Juneau Ave (Westown), at 7:30pm.*