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Monday, August 11, 2008 12:00 AM

And the next great American beer will be...?

Pabst may be worshiped by hipsters, but can it replace Budweiser as the best classic domestic brew? The answer may surprise you.
By Edward McClelland

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  • Sunday, August 10, 2008 07:18 PM

    The names of the people involved....

    Kevin Dixon and Drew Calvetti. They are now in a Shoegaze band called Brief Candles, but they were two of the originators of the trend. I remember first seeing their math rock band while they were smashed on Pabst.

    If you want to contact Drew or Kevin look up brief candles and write them a letter. But they can tell you everything about how it started in central Illinois in the mid/late nineties. They even explained why they drank the beer to me, about the historic ties of Peoria being a town with a Pabst brewery before prohibition.

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