Old-time Buffalo favorite Iroquois Beer is poised to make a comeback

[WNYresident]

My grandfather worked for Iroquois Beer for decades.

Old-time Buffalo favorite Iroquois Beer is poised to make a comeback

It's time for grandparents to dust off their pilsner glasses and brush up on beer-drinking stories from decades long ago. A retro version of one of their old standards is about to hit regional brewing circles.Community Beer Works is at work on a new, $1.5 million brewing operation on the West Side that looks to bring the Iroquois Beer brand back in force come late spring.
CBW and a descendant of former Iroquois brewery owner William Weigel are so excited about their joint venture, however, that they don't want area beer-lovers to wait that long for a taste of what's to come. They will host an Iroquois Beer launch party from 5 to 9 p.m. Feb. 1 at the Hotel Henry Conference Center.
"This beer is going to be a nice, easy drinking beer, something people can enjoy drinking in pubs and taverns after work," Community Beer Works President Ethan Cox said.

http://buffalonews.com/2018/01/30/ir...m=more_stories

[WNYresident]

Never mind. Not the original recipe.

Cox and Pottle will bring 14.5 kegs of the light lager to the launch this week. It will be the first time in more than three decades that beer drinkers will be able to order an Iroquois – though those who remember its flavor will taste some subtle differences.Pottle still has his great-grandfather's brewer's diploma and other Iroquois memorabilia, but the beer recipes are long gone, he said.
Cox said some of the malts and hops used to brew the original beer are likely no longer grown.

[leftWNYbecauseofBS]

Never mind. Not the original recipe.

So just a general light lager that is going to try to sell based on nostalgia. Didn't they do that with doughnuts recently as well?

[gorja]

My 1st cousin twice removed worked there too. On his World War I draft registration card, he wrote that he was a clerk at Iroquois brewery and he was still working there during the 1940 census. He died in 1962.

[WNYresident]

So just a general light lager that is going to try to sell based on nostalgia. Didn't they do that with doughnuts recently as well?

Freddy's.....



I think my Grandfather drove a fork truck while he worked there. I have vague memories of going with him/uncles where he worked. I would have been no older than 6 or 7. They closed about 1971

[leftWNYbecauseofBS]

Freddy's.....

I think my Grandfather drove a fork truck while he worked there. I have vague memories of going with him/uncles where he worked. I would have been no older than 6 or 7. They closed about 1971

That's it.

It's crazy that the IP for these places is lost. How hard is it to save some paper. It's not like it was the middle ages.

[gorja]

Some old ads

http://heritage575.tripod.com/iroquois_printads.html#

[WNYresident]

That's it.

It's crazy that the IP for these places is lost. How hard is it to save some paper. It's not like it was the middle ages.

Good point. Well unless the head beer chef literally kept the recipe in their head.