| 1876/10/00 |
Pabst's Best Select lager wins a gold medal at the Centennial Celebration, marking the first of many awards the beer will win throughout its history. |
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Pabst Blue Ribbon |
Centennial Exposition |
| 1889/00/00 |
Fredrick Pabst renames the brewery after himself. |
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| 1892/00/00 |
Pabst Brewing Company buys nearly 1 million feet of silk ribbon per year, which workers tie by hand around each bottle of Best Select. |
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Pabst Brewing Company Complex |
Milwaukee |
Pabst Blue Ribbon |
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| 1893/07/00 |
Pabst's Best Select wins the top beer award at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. |
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Pabst Blue Ribbon |
World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago |
| 1896/00/00 |
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Pabst Brewery Saloon |
Milwaukee |
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| 1898/00/00 |
Pabst brewery produces one million barrels and renames Best Select to Pabst Blue Ribbon. |
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Pabst Brewing Company Complex |
Milwaukee |
Pabst Blue Ribbon |
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| 1907/05/31 |
Pabst Brewery takes out a permit to build a tavern catty-corner from a Miller Brewery Tavern. One of only a handful of know commercial structures designed by architect George Ehlers. |
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Pabst Brewery's and Miller Brewery's Corner Taverns |
Milwaukee |
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| 1916/00/00 |
World War I leads to a worldwide silk shortage that puts an end to the practice of hand-tying blue silk ribbon around each bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon. |
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Pabst Brewing Company Complex |
Milwaukee |
Pabst Blue Ribbon |
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