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Help -- Can Anyone Name the BEER in this movie?


It's haunting me . . . I can't remember the NAME of the beer brewed in the plant. Please let me know -- THANKS!!

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Pickett's

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John 3:16

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Depends, the original was Star Beer and the new was Picketts. This movie was taped in the town I work in (Dubuque, IA) and I finally saw it yesterday for the first time. Decent enough movie. You should see the Star Brewery now, completely renovated and is a restaurant. Very nice.

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That's right. Sticks in my head because of the scene where Art Carney's character is handed a Pickett's beer and he spits it out demanding they bring him one of the original Star's.

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Actually, the brewery name starts out as Pickett's and becomes Dubuque Star Beer. In the story, the family brewery, Pickett's is being bought out by a big conglomerate to become Star Beer. In real life, the brewery was Star Beer until 1971, when Joseph Pickett bought it, and made Picketts Beer until selling it in 1980, when they became Star Beer again, making Star and Rhomberg Beer. It closed in 1985. I was living in Dubuque when the movie was made. Wonder if this movie ever made it to DVD?

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