Sebewaing Products Can Opener

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Sebewaing Products Company OpenerMark W. Rummel posted this photo on March 8, 2013 in the Facebook Group “You know you are from Sebewaing, MI when …”.  He said “For sale today on eBay (at $20.00) from our town of CBWing — here’s a bottle/can opener from Sebewaing Products Company. Folks who follow this know that’s what Sebewaing Brewing Company became when prohibition began in the U.S. in 1920, since it could no longer sell / manufacture beer.

The company COULD sell the products for people to brew beer at home (which was legal) and that’s what they did. So this is from between 1920 and 1933, when prohibition was repealed. The opener itself has a 1904 patent, and this one is in great shape for being almost 100 years old. You can buy it!  Other breweries did this, too, when they were forced out of business by prohibition in 1920. The Stroh Brewing Company of Detroit began making ice cream, and there’s still Stroh’s Ice Cream around today, even though the brewery is long gone.”

Thank you to Mark W. Rummel for posting the photo and making the comments.

Pride of Michigan Advertising Table Tent

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POM Table TentMark W. Rummel posted this photo on March 4, 2013 in the Facebook Group “You know you are from Sebewaing, MI when …”.  He said “This was the beer that ended it all. When the new “big city owners” bought up local stock and got control of the Sebewaing Brewery’s board of directors in the early 1960s, they wanted to create a premium beer and they called it “POM – Pride of Michigan.” People weren’t used to spending that much on Sebewaing Beer and it didn’t sell.

Notice they also changed the name (unnecessarily) to the Michigan Brewery, Inc., which added costs but no more revenue. This is a “table-top” card for sale on eBay, from about 1965. POM was a major reason the brewery finally closed.”

Here are the comments from the post:

William Harder I thought it was the brewers best that end it that’s when the beer went national they tried bring back beer to sebewaing that’s where Pom was form

Scott M. Thede I am reviewing older brewery related comments and thought I would post my opinion. Brewers’ Best was done in the late 40’s and never really lasted. Though I do not have a date of this labels end, I think it only lasted a few years. The brewery’s biggest revenue years were the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. The name change from Sebewaing to Michigan Brewing, the POM label, and the phase out of the blue label Sebewaing Beer to Golden Pheasant which was the same beer less the name is mostly what did it. This occurred in around July 1964. Then in the spring of 1965, the money had been spent and with the temporary closing in the spring and early summer of 1965, businesses looked for other sources. The brewery could not recover when it re-opended in June 1965 and closed for good in 1966. A darn shame.

Thank you to Mark W. Rummel for posting the photo and all of those who took the time to comment in Facebook.

Another Sebewaing Beer Can Case

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Can Case2Mark W. Rummel posted this photo on January 31, 2013 in the Facebook Group “You know you are from Sebewaing, MI when …”.  He said “Three great things about this Sebewaing Beer can box for sale on eBay today: first, it shows off that great phrase “Say CBWING” which is the phonetic way to say our town’s name. I always liked seeing that (and I’ve said it to hundreds of other people since then…)

Second, it has that great phrase “Brewed With Deep Rock Well Water” that I always thought was a clever way of saying sorta nothing…

Third, as a kid who grew up in a print shop / newspaper family, I was always impressed because they printed that pheasant with just red and blue inks, and it looks like full color thanks to shading.

This box is very familiar to me from my childhood and it’s in good shape. Maybe you should have it in YOUR house???

Three great things about this Sebewaing Beer can box for sale on eBay today: first, it shows off that great phrase “Say CBWING” which is the phonetic way to say our town’s name. I always liked seeing that (and I’ve said it to hundreds of other people since then…)

Second, it has that great phrase “Brewed With Deep Rock Well Water” that I always thought was a clever way of saying sorta nothing…

Third, as a kid who grew up in a print shop / newspaper family, I was always impressed because they printed that pheasant with just red and blue inks, and it looks like full color thanks to shading.

This box is very familiar to me from my childhood and it’s in good shape. Maybe you should have it in YOUR house???”

Here are the comments from the post:

Brian Kundinger Do we still have Ring necks in the fields around town or are they did disappear with the beer? A beautiful bird, a beautiful bay, a winding river. There were many empty bear cans in the walls of my Dad’s and later brother’s home on the Sebewaing river, left there by thirsty brick layers. Great memories and a surprisingly strait, well laid, wall for as many beer cans left in that wall!

Doug Rook Beer is full of B vitamins. Maybe that helped.

Donna Poellet When I went to college I covered those boxes with contact paper for storage boxes!!!!!

Thank you to Mark W. Rummel for posting the photo and all of those who took the time to comment in Facebook.