Eastern Brewing Co

[mary]

I once read that Eastern Brewing in Hammonton, NJ brewed all kinds of brands
of beers, but they were very tight lipped about their operation. Do they
still exist? It seemed like they purchased the names of beer from closed
breweries, and then sold the beer in supermarkets at supermarket prices. The
Fischer brand seems to come to mind.

Tom

[J2jurado]

"mary" tomb...@city-net.com :

<< The
Fischer brand seems to come to mind.>>

I'm pretty sure that this brand was exclusively made by Florida Brewing Co. in
Auburndale, FL. Also known as ABC Select....

Eastern Brewing made malta, and did indeed buy the Chicago brand "Milwaukee
Ace" as its own. it made Orangina for a while. I recall it was the last
mafia-owned brewery in the USA...it's last owner, and the fellow who closed it
(IIRC) , was named Fatata.

[Snert]

Eastern Brewing also made ABC Beer and Fischer Beer, as well as the
Auburndale, FL brewery. There seems to have been some sort of connection
between the Hammonton and Auburndale breweries, and I believe the Auburndale
brewey is still in operation. If the mobster stories are true, maybe the
mobsters moved from NJ to Florida when they reached retirement age!

Eastern made a lot of cheap labels - Canadian Ace (which was the brand name
from Al Capone's Chicago brewery), Old Bohemian, Old German, Fox Head, etc.
They also made a bunch of Supermarket and Drug Store labels, Malta, and even
Soda.

When the beer can collecting craze hit in the 70's, many collectors made the
pilgrammage to Hammonton to try and get the cans from the brewey. From what
I am told, the staff there was unifromly unfriendly.

-Al

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[KEN8038]

>When the beer can collecting craze hit in the 70's, many collectors made the
>pilgrammage to Hammonton to try and get the cans from the brewey. From what
>I am told, the staff there was unifromly unfriendly.

I was one of those who tried, and everything they say is true. If we hadn't
stopped for a beer at virtually every bar on Rt 9 between North Jersey and Rt
40 in South Jersey on the way down, we would have been scared shitless by the
two thugs who told us in no uncertain terms which swamp no one would ever find
us in if we didn't get out of town immediately. --Ken