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Pabst Continues To Grow Herei
(Editor’s note: The
following article about
Perry’s Pabst Brewery
appeared in the business
section of Sunday’s Atlanta
Journal-Constitution. The
article, written by staffer
Bill Collins, gives a good
insight into the progress of
the brewery here and
amount of taxes Pabst has
contributed to Houston
County. It is being reprinted
here in the interest of the
many readers that might
have missed the article
Sunday.)
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Can you imagine a com
pany so eager to pay its
taxes it sent in a check for
$150,000 before tax bills were
sent out?
Pabst Brewing Company
here did in 1971.
“Before we sent out tax
bills they brought me a
check for $150,000 and said
they didn’t know what their
taxes would be but they
thought the county could use
the money,” said Mrs. Joyce
Griffin, tax commissioner of
Houston County.
This story is perhaps the
best example gleaned from
interviews in the Middle
Georgia area about Pabst,
the brewery which opened
here about two years ago and
expects to turn out
579,600,000 beers this year.
It shows what several local
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residents referred to as the
company’s eagerness to be a
good citizen, and, more over,
it indicated what economic
impact the brewery is
having on Houston County.
In 1967, the year BP
beforePabst - taxes paid on
the farmland - most of which
was owned by State Rep.
Sam Nunn and his family -
were $894.
Last year Pabst paid a
total of $295,014 in taxes on
the land, buildings, equip
ment and machinery. Pabst,
Mrs. Griffin computes,
accounts for about 8.5 per
cent of Houston County’s tax
digest and $157,340 of its
taxes went to the county
schools.
PABST, the country’s third
largest brewery, bought a
700 acre tract of land about
five miles from Perry in 1968
and has since spent about S4O
million in buildings and
equipment.
This is the Middle Georgia
community where pecans
and peaches and Warner
Robins Air Force Base were
the most popular claims to
fame before Pabst moved in
and became the county’s
largest taxpayer, employed
300 people with an annual
payroll of $3.5 million and
began operation of the most
modern brewery in the
country.
The Pabst Blue Ribbon
plant, an ultra-modern
brewery where computers
are programmed to see the
end product is what Pabst
customers expect.
Already underway is an
expansion program that will
up production from the
current level of 1.75 million
barrels a year to 4 million
barrels by the end of 1974.
And, along with the in
creased capacity will come
an additional need for 150
employees
Pabst, with a history
dating back to 1844, chose the
Houston County site for a
number of reasons.
THE PRIMARY factor,
however, was the abundance
of artesian water.
“Before we decided on the
site we came down and had
geological maps made which
showed there was a large
underground river here,”
explained Otto Baumann,
Pabst plant manager at
Perry.
‘‘We wanted to know how
well assured we could be that
we wouldn’t run out of
water?
“Our people determined
there was enough water here
so that if you took the
perimeter of the United
States and made a delta out
of it with a 30 ft. dike it would
fill it,” Baumann said.
In testing the water sup
ply, core drillings turned up
sharks teeth at 800 feet,
evidence that the Middle
Georgia area is about 35
million years old and was
once the coastal region of
Georgia.
THE HOUSTON COUNTY
site was chosen for yet
another reason: its
proximity to Pabst’s market
area in the Southeast. From
the plant there, Pabst serves
Georgia, Florida, and parts
of Mississippi, North
Carolina and South Carolina.
The biggest majority of the
beer brewed there moves out
on railroad cars from a
siding Pabst has. “Southern
Railway specified the
location as Pabst, Georgia
when we bought the
property. This had been a
peach loading area but
Southern changed the name
when we moved in,”
Baumann added.
When the three step ex
pansion program is com
pleted, Baumann said, the
Pabst Georgia brewery will
be the company’s second
largest.
THOUGH THE capital
outlay has been among the
highest for a new Georgia
industry in decent years,
Pabst plant does not employ
a large work-force. About 185
hourly employees work there
and 115 other employees.
Most of the technical people
were brought in from other
Pabst’s plants but a majority
of the employees are local
people coming from a
surrounding five county
area.
Hourly employees are
members of the Brewery
Workers Union, Local 353, an
AFL-CIO union. Beginning
pay is $3.50 per hour in
creasing to 5 an hour at the
end of the first year, $5.45 an
hour at the end of the second
and $5.75 an hour bv the end
of the third year. Pabst and
the union have a three year
contract.
The brewery operate 24
hours a day, Monday
through Friday.
Since a brewery is
classified as a food plant
they fall under the super
vision of the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration. The
FDA, Baumann said, has
visited the plant once since it
began production in October
1970.
MAYOR JOHN BARTON
of Perry has nothing but
praise for the SSO million
Pabst plant.
“The people there must
have been handpicked
because we couldn’t have
gotten a finer bunch of
people anywhere.
"Yes, there were some
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, PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1972
who opposed it when the
announcement was made
four years ago, but I was a
member of the Perry City
Council and we were 100 per
cent behind Pabst coming
here. The manufacture of
beer is a legitimate business
and provides a lot of revenue
for the county. It doesn’t add
another can of beer for
purchase in Houston County.
They don't sell beer out there
and the only way you can get
it is through a distributor or
retailer.
“Nothing but good can
come out of having a S6O
million plant locate near
your community. We’re
proud to have them here,”
Barton said.
Barton's predecessor,
former Mayor Malcolm
Reese, president of a savings
and loan association in Perry
and mayor and president of
the chamber when the plant
was announced, agrees.
“PABST has brought the
finest people you’ll ever
meet into our community.
They’re civic minded and
have been good for us.
“And, of course, the
payroll doesn’t hurt either.
"I know of no problems
they have cause to this area.
They pay very high wages,
they love to pay taxes and
they are very good people,”
Reese commented.
Reese said he has hopes
that one day the area may be
able to supply the corn
needed in the brewing
process, but, at present there
is no milling plant which can
grind the corn finely enough.
"If we could ever develop
a method of growing the gain
here they could use, we could
almost double our asset,”
Reese theorized.
IN THE BREWING of
beer, barley grain is con
verted to malt, mixed with
water in mash tubs until the
kernels come apart. Corn,
finely ground, is boiled in a
cooker and added to the
malt.
The mash passes through
filters to remove hulls,
kernels and smaller par
ticles. What is left is a clear
liquid called wort. The wort
is then brewed with hops and
after this is cooled, yeast is
added. At this point beer has
its beginning.
Each brewery lias its own
formula, generally passed
down through the years and
carefully followed by
brewmasters. “Nothing is
left to chance in the brewing
of beer," Baumann says.
"The name of the game is
quality control.”
TO SEE that its product
lives up to its standards and
its reputation, a panel of 10
tasters daily check the Pabst
beer brewed at each
brewery.
Welcome
Newcomers ■*
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sheffield
608 Seminole
Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Warder
642 Pineridge Dr.
Mr. Jim Davidson
905 Massee Lane
Mr. and Mrs. Tyrone Mizel
1202 Tucker Rd. , m ,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry E.
Hawkins
538 Linden St.
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Dr. and Mrs. Walter Simp
son
1507 Kingston Rd.
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