Falstaff Beer
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- For other uses, see Falstaff (disambiguation).
Falstaff Beer was the brand name for an American beer, produced first by the Lemp Brewing Company of St. Louis, Missouri, and later by the Falstaff Brewing Corporation.
A once-popular premium beer brand, Falstaff at one point had the third-largest brewing operation in the United States, and had branched into producing its own malt and selling it to other breweries. The 1965 acquisition of another company, the Narragansett Brewing Company of Rhode Island, proved disastrous, with the state pursuing an antitrust case against them. A Supreme Court verdict was rendered in 1973, in Falstaff's favor, but the company never recovered.
After the closing of the last Falstaff brewery in Fort Wayne, Indiana during 1990, the brand name became a licensed property of Pabst Brewing Company, who continued to produce Falstaff Beer through other breweries. Having sold only 1468 barrels of the brand during 2004, Pabst discontinued production in May 2005.
