IfPabst Blue Ribbonis your beer of choice , the next month or two could be a nail - biter . In a battle of the brews , Pabst and MillerCoors are locked in a lawsuit that could define the fate of the popular alcohol-dependent beverage .
The state of affairs started going sour when MillerCoors , which produces Miller Lite , Coors , and Coors Light beers among other brands , notified Pabst that they would no longer be making and box Pabst Blue Ribbon , Old Milwaukee , or Lone Star beers . The two signed an concord in 1999 that allowed Pabst to distribute beer brew by MillerCoors , in effect outsource the beer - making process . That agreement is set to cash in one’s chips in 2020 . While it let for two five - twelvemonth extension , MillerCoors apparently want out .
MillerCoors is fence that they no longer have the manufacturing capacitance to persist in working with Pabst ; Pabst is insisting MillerCoors is attend for a way out of the agreement so they can cripple the competition . The company is also inexorable that , with its need for 4 to 4.5 million barrel annually , MillerCoors is the only option . They take MillerCoors resist an offer for Pabst to lease one of their brewing facilities and that they also offered to widen the great deal only if Pabst paid $ 45 per barrel — a near - triplex Leontyne Price increase that the society ca n’t open .
As a result , PabstsuedMillerCoors for $ 400 million and is expect MillerCoors to move in good faith to avail find a resolution that work for all political party . The party also lay claim to have documents proving MillerCoors deliberately closed brewery so it would no longer have the way to provide Pabst .
If the motor hotel finds MillerCoors has no further obligation to Pabst , the company will have to do some scrambling to find a elbow room to continue making product . Pabst claims the only other manufacturing business with the mental ability to brew enough beer to meet their need is Anheuser - Busch , and they do n’t accept contracts to be a supplier .
The jury trial in Milwaukee County Circuit Court is expected to last through November .
[ h / tTIME ]
