#OTD in 1999 the Kingsbury #Beer brand, originally of Mantiwoc Wisconsin was killed off in a #corporate restructuring after merging assets of Stroh's into #Pabst. The move was made by bean counters running the beer empire created by maverick iron fisted leveraged buyout legend #PaulKalmanovitz of General Brewing, who in the 1970's infamously began consolidating regional powerhouse US #breweries such as Falstaff, Lucky, Olympia, Pearl under one umbrella, stripping assets and selling off the real estate. Kalmanovitz, an immigrant industrialist who once sold his coat after arriving penniless from Poland in the US after WWI, died in 1987 but his legacy lives on in a private equity empire run by #trustees, and acts of #philanthropy from his fortune that have funded wings at educational institutions like UCSF and UC Davis.