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The Olympia Brewing Company was a brewery in Tumwater, WA founded in 1896 by Leopold Friederich Schmidt, which existed from 1896 until 1983. It was acquired in the latter year by Pabst Brewing Company. Pabst is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.〔Li, Shan. "(Pabst headquarters moving to Los Angeles )." Los Angeles Times. May 14, 2011.〕〔(Contact ) from the company's website〕 On November 13, 2014, Pabst announced that it had completed its sale to Blue Ribbon Intermediate Holdings, LLC. Blue Ribbon is a partnership between American beer entrepreneur Eugene Kashper and TSG Consumer Partners, a San Francisco–based private equity firm. Prior reports suggested the price agreed upon was around $700 million. ==History== Leopold Schmidt, a German immigrant from Montana founded The Capital Brewing Company at Tumwater Falls on the Deschutes River in the town of Tumwater, near the south end of Puget Sound. He built a four-story wooden brewhouse, a five-story cellar building, a one-story ice factory powered by the lower falls, and a bottling and keg plant and in 1896, began brewing and selling Olympia Beer. In 1902, the firm became Olympia Brewing Company and chose the slogan "It's the Water" to promote its flagship product. Statewide Prohibition, which began in January 1916, four years before National Prohibition, ended beer making operations. After Prohibition ended, a new Olympia Brewery was erected just upstream from the original, and Olympia beer went back on sale in 1934.〔(Brewery Gems, ''An Illustrated History of the Olympia Brewing Company'' ) (Retrieved on October 25, 2009).〕 Olympia Beer was a very popular regional brand in the Pacific Northwest for half of a century. It eventually expanded nationwide, repositioned as a low-price lager. During the 1970s, Olympia acquired Hamm's and Lone Star. Olympia Brewing also produced Buckhorn Beer,〔(Beer Advocate. ''What Happened to Buckhorn Beer?'' ), (Retrieved on November 2, 2006)〕 which had previously been a product of the Lone Star Brewing Company.〔(The Buckhorn Museum. ''Fact Sheet'' ), (Retrieved on November 30, 2008).〕 Between 1970 and 1980 Olympia faced flat revenues 〔( Tri City Herald, Schmidts may lose Olympia beer helm 2/21/1980 )〕 among consolidating nationwide breweries and, in 1982, the Schmidt family, which owned and operated the brewery and company, elected to sell the company. Olympia was subsequently purchased by G. Heileman Brewing Company in 1983. In 1980, the president of the brewery, a state representative, and a state official were caught engaging in a homosexual act in a public bathroom. 〔( The Spokane Daily Chronicle, Three Arrested at Olympia on Lewd Conduct Charges 2/15/80 )〕 G. Heileman Brewing Company was sold to Stroh Brewery Company in 1996. In 1999, Pabst Brewing Company bought most of the Stroh Brewery Company brands including Olympia Beer. As with many other regional breweries, ownership of the Olympia Brewery eventually passed through several corporations including Pabst, G. Heileman, and Stroh's, until the brewery was eventually purchased by Miller Brewing Co. For a time, the Olympia brewery took over the brewing of other Pacific Northwest brands as their original breweries were closed one by one, including the Lucky Lager brewery in Vancouver, Washington, the Henry Weinhard's brewery in Portland, Oregon, and even the brewery of its arch-rival, Rainier Beer, in Seattle. In 2002 SAB bought out Miller brewing Co. SABMiller closed the Olympia Brewery on June 27th, 2003 citing the unprofitability of such a small brewery. Pabst was purchased, along with the Olympia label, by beer industry veteran Eugene Kashper with backing from TSG Consumer Partners in 2014, and Olympia Beer continues to be contract brewed by MillerCoors at their brewery in Irwindale, California.〔http://www.tsgconsumer.com/news/article/index.php?id=60〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Olympia Brewing Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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