...brewed with family pride for over one hundred years."
So went the jingle. But Weidemann is no longer brewed with pride, family or otherwise, as it went out of business before I started drinking beer. Which I think is a shame since my father and his father drank that beer (along with Burger and Hudepohl) and now I'll never know the pleasure (or lack thereof, since they apparently weren't great beers).
Even Ohio Breweriana has nothing on it. But someone on an internet message board remembers:
When I was a young fart, many moons ago, I lived in Cincinnati. Believe it or not, it was a big commercial beer-making town long ago, before beer became Big Business...I won't be able to come with all of the names, but some of them were Burger Beer, Hudepohl Beer, Weidemann Beer, you get the idea.
The only nice thing I can think to say about them was this: when you went to a Reds game, you could find on a hot summers day a vendor who would cry out:
"Get moody with a Hude (pronounced HOO-de) - just raise your hand, and I will be by your side"...
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