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We discovered this article a few weeks ago, but I didn’t get a chance to post this. Even though Rolling Rock isn’t a microbrew, it’s still interesting that $$ is being invested in the industry.<\/p>\n
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\nSean<\/p>\n
p.s. Rolling Rock was one of my go to beers back in the day. It’s good to see the brewery reopening to help the local economy. I wonder what how long Inbev owned Rolling Rock.<\/p>\n
Shuttered brewery gets $4.5M, hope During a visit to the Latrobe brewery on Tuesday, Gov. Ed Rendell announced state grants and loans totaling more than $4.5 million to help its new owner, City Brewing Co., upgrade the plant to expand its production capacity.<\/p>\n The brewery closed in July after its former owner, InBev USA, sold the Rolling Rock brand to St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. for $82 million. Anheuser-Busch, the nation’s largest brewer, now fills the famed green bottles in Newark, N.J.<\/p>\n The brewery made Rolling Rock for more than six decades and employed generations of local workers in the tiny town of Latrobe, about 35 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n “When Rolling Rock left town, Latrobe lost one of its most historic icons,” Rendell said, according to a statement. “But more importantly, it lost a significant portion of its tax base and a large employer.”<\/p>\n The state’s investment, he said, will put at least 250 people back to work by June 1. It also encouraged the company to invest $10.4 million in the plant, Rendell said.<\/p>\n Kenn Yartz, City Brewing’s chief operating officer, said in a statement he believes the La Crosse, Wis.-based company “will bring a new era of beer and beverage co-packing production to Latrobe and western Pennsylvania.”<\/p>\n The state money initially will contribute to the purchase of the building and its equipment, according to John Skiavo, president and CEO of the Economic Growth Connection of Westmoreland County, a local economic development group.<\/p>\n The money to rehabilitate the plant and buy equipment will be spent over two to three years, he said.<\/p>\n “The goal is to try to be operating to some degree in February,” said Skiavo, whose organization worked with the governor and City Brewing to arrange the grants and loans.<\/p>\n City Brewing, which has an annual capacity of 70 million cases, is a contract packager of beer, flavored malt beverages, teas, energy drinks, juices and carbonated soft drinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We discovered this article a few weeks ago, but I didn’t get a chance to post this. Even though Rolling Rock isn’t a microbrew, it’s still interesting that $$ is being invested in the industry. Enjoy! Sean p.s. Rolling Rock was one of my go to beers back in the day. It’s good to see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87,96,93],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/seanpost35.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy Daniel Lovering, AP Business Writer | January 23, 2007<\/strong>
\nPITTSBURGH<\/strong> –A shuttered brewery that once produced Rolling Rock beer is edging closer to reopening.<\/p>\n