First off, I forgot to mention that in doing research on the last post, I discovered that the cap I described as a "pain in the butt to find Molson Dry" was actually something else. It was a Wit beer, from an outfit from NY called Spring Street. Spring Street was a jumping point for founder Andrew Klein; he launched an IPO that he then morphed into a means of trading over the internet. This became Wit Capital; and as near as I can figure, the brewery was left to fall apart while he concentrated on turning WC into a major Wall Street player. A NYTimes article (titled "nitWit") cast aspersions on the relative success of this, and eventually the whole mess was folded into Goldman-Sachs in 2004. I wasn't able to figure out just when in all this that Spring Street assumed room temperature, but I kinda doubt it made it out of the 1990's.
Second, our mystery cap with the ship has been identified with the help of Mike's beer store on eBay. He confirms from the brewer that this is a recently released cap by the Wachusett brewery.
Third, I forgot to mention last time in my discussion of Evansville brewing that according to news sources, one of its last acts in life was to raid the employees 401ks to keep afloat. Real princes, that lot. Perhaps brewing so many different brands that Noah couldn't have kept track of 'em wasn't such a good idea. Pittsburgh Brewing ended up taking over the Sterling, Wiedemann, Falls City, Drummond Bros., Eagle Mallt Liquor, Gerst, Drewrys, and John Gilbert's Riverboat brands the next year (1998). After reorganizing in 2007, they still brew the Wiedemanns, Drewrys, and Drummond Bros.
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