Schlitz Brewing

Client Brewer in San Antonio, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Owned by Pabst Brewing Company

Established in 1849

Contact
110 E Houston St., San Antonio, TX, 78205, United States
Description
The Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company was an American brewery based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and once the largest producer of beer in the United States. Its namesake beer, Schlitz ( /ˈʃlɪts/), was known as "The beer that made Milwaukee famous" and was advertised with the slogan "When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer". Schlitz first became the largest beer producer in the US in 1902 and enjoyed that status at several points during the first half of the 20th century, exchanging the title with Anheuser-Busch multiple times during the 1950s.

The company was founded by August Krug in 1849, but ownership passed to Joseph Schlitz in 1858 when he married Krug's widow. Schlitz was bought by Stroh Brewery Company in 1982 and subsequently sold along with the rest of Stroh's assets to Pabst Brewing Company in 1999. Pabst produced several varieties of Schlitz beers alongside Old Milwaukee.

Admin Note: Old Milwaukee was originally a Schlitz brand but Pabst has broken it off into its own separate brand.

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5.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5

450ml can, brewed under licence in Russia. Pours clear gold with a medium-sized white head. Aroma is corn, malt. Taste is light sweet. Light bitter finish. Light bodied. Just another pale lager.

Tried from Can on 22 Oct 2025 at 17:00


4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle. Revived formula. Taste is the old timey lager taste from years ago. Aroma is hay, straw and weak. Appearance is golden with a good head.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Mar 2025 at 04:41


4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle. Revived formula. Taste is the old timey lager taste from years ago. Aroma is hay, straw and weak. Appearance is golden with a good head.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Mar 2025 at 04:39


1.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5

Bought this as a joke, and boy, it sure was funny!
Just an awful mess of booze, and rotten corn. One drink, and the rest was right down the drain.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:28


6

Tastes like shit but I'm having an amazing conversation.

Tried on 13 Dec 2024 at 16:58


3.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle from Liquor Junction, Reading. Crystal-clear pale gold with tons of sparkle, thin head quickly fading to fizzy cap and light lacing. Aroma is pale malt, corn, minerals, mild wet leaves. Taste is pale malt, sweet corn. Smooth texture, virtually flat carbonation, finish as taste. I usually don't like to pay the higher price for craft lagers (so opt for other, more flavorful styles) but, if I could only drink lagers, I would pay up to upgrade from this. Takes me back to underage/early working days.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Dec 2024 at 23:58


4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Undated bottle from tfontana, drunk 11/26/24. Thanks, Tom! Clear pale brass. Large, frothy, white head. Moderate retention. Bit of metal and seltzer, corn, glue and vanillin. Fizzy with powdered sugar character. Kind of oddly sweet and cloying. Little/no bitterness. Not good!

Tried from Bottle on 26 Nov 2024 at 22:40


4.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

12 oz bottle in a trade with tfontana, ty Tom. Flavor is simple and smooth but really not much here. Corn, mild malt and weak minerals. The finish is real clean, no lager yeast after taste. A touch sweet. Nothing off putting.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Nov 2024 at 02:27


2.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5

Skunky aroma. Crisp lager flavor, starts corny sweet with a lemon bitterness. Crisp finish.

Tried on 26 Jan 2024 at 04:30


3.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

Canned (thanks GodOfThunder!). Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is rice, some corn and mild salty elements. Flavour is maize, rice and some earthy tones. Sweet'n'cheap.

Tried from Can on 18 Sep 2023 at 17:14