Straub Brewery: PCN TOURS (1995)

This tour aired on the the Pennsylvania Cable Network. Straub Brewery was founded in 1872 by Peter Straub (1850-1913) of Felldorf, Württemberg, Germany, who purchased the Benzinger Spring Brewery from his father-in-law, Francis Xavier Sorg. Brewing continuously since that time, Straub is the third oldest family-owned brewery in the United States and is considered an American legacy brewery. It is still owned and operated by the original founding family, now in its seventh generation. Straub is also the smallest pre-Prohibition brewery still in business in the United States.
Straub is the last brewery in the United States to produce and sell beer in returnable 16-ounce glass bottles, commonly called "pounders." The brewery uses a traditional bottle-washing machine to clean the returned glass bottles and prepare them for refilling. Heavy-duty, reusable cardboard cases and dividers enable the brewery to minimize the amount of new packaging material. In 2016, the Pennsylvania Resource Council honored Straub Brewery with its "Leadership in Reusable Packaging" award for this 16-ounce Straub American Lager returnable package.

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This is amazing! So nice to meet you at the gras last night.

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Thanks, I hope to run into you again!