Frederick Pabst and Charles Best signed Philip Best Brewing Co - Stock Certificate

Charles Best Jr.

Frederick Pabst (1836-1904), and Charles Best Jr., Brewers. Both sign this 1873 Wisconsin stock. The Stock is issued to Frederick Pabst and is signed twice! Once at the stub and at the back. Nice double vignette of the Empire and Southside breweries, the company’s two breweries in Milwaukee. This company is the forerunner of what eventually became Pabst Brewing Company. Jacob Best was among the first brewers to engage in the business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, establishing a plant in 1844. His son Phillip rose to take control of the brewery by 1860, and ultimately retiring in 1864, leaving it to his son-in-laws, Emil Schandein, who signs as Vice President. With Fred at the helm of the company, Pabst rose to become the largest brewery in the world by the turn of the century. Stocks of significant breweries of this caliber signed by the early important brewers in the U. S. are extremely rare and this represents a nice opportunity to acquire an important certificate from this industry. Brewery stocks are very popular. Excellent Condition.

The Pabst Brewing Company, an American company, has a rich history dating back to 1844 when Jacob Best founded a brewing company. By 1889, the company underwent a name change and was renamed after Frederick Pabst. Today, it operates as a holding company that contracts the brewing of over two dozen beer and malt liquor brands. These include its flagship Pabst Blue Ribbon, as well as brands from defunct breweries such as P. Ballantine and Sons Brewing Company, G. Heileman Brewing Company, Lone Star Brewing Company, Pearl Brewing Company, Piels Bros., Valentin Blatz Brewing Company, National Brewing Company, Olympia Brewing Company, Falstaff Brewing Corporation, Primo Brewing & Malting Company, Rainier Brewing Company, F & M Schaefer Brewing Company, Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company, and Stroh Brewery Company.

Approximately half of the beer produced under Pabst’s ownership is the Pabst Blue Ribbon brand, while the remaining half comprises its other owned brands.

Pabst is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. In a significant development, Pabst announced on November 13, 2014, that it had completed its sale to Blue Ribbon Intermediate Holdings, LLC. Blue Ribbon is a partnership between Russian-American beer entrepreneur Eugene Kashper and TSG Consumer Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm. Prior reports suggested that the price agreed upon for the sale was approximately $700 million.

In 2017, the company opened the Pabst Milwaukee Brewery, a brewpub nestled in an old chapel on the original Milwaukee Pabst Brewery campus. This brewpub specializes in crafting relatively small batches of craft beers and reviving long-discontinued, historic Pabst brands, including Old Tankard and Andeker.