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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-21T13:00:51.000Z",
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  "textContent": "It seemed a Tuesday like any other for Adam Jevne back in mid-February. The 15-year beverage director of Lincoln Hall, Tied House, and Schubas Tavern, contacted his sales rep at Chicago distributor Lakeshore Beverage to place his usual, three-keg order of Schlitz, a.k.a. golden nectar, a.k.a. the best-selling beer on draft at Schubas, one of a few dozen Schlitz Brewery-tied houses still standing citywide. The answer would prove to be a bitter omen. “He goes, ‘Did you hear — I’m sure you’ve heard — that Pabst is discontinuing Schlitz on draft?’” Jevne recalls. “I was like ‘What?\n\nThe article The Final Brew: How the Abrupt Discontinuation of Schlitz Rocked Chicago Bartenders appeared first on VinePair.",
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