citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . march 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message henry weinhard s industry alcoholic beverage founded 1856 headquarters hood river oregon united states products beer owner sabmiller website www.henryweinhards.com av.aspx page home henry weinhard s private reserve and blitz weinhard are brands of beer first brewed in 1856 in portland oregon usa . the brewery was owned by the brewer henry weinhard of the weinhard family who also made a line of soft drinks which survives to this day . the blitz weinhard brand was among several regional pacific northwest beers which were staples in the northwest market during the decades following the repeal of prohibition until they began losing market share to the national brands in the 1960s and 1970s . contents 1 advertising campaign 2 brewery 3 gourmet sodas 4 references 5 external links advertising campaign edit weinhard s created a unique and noteworthy advertising campaign in the late 1970s and 1980s to position its brand . the campaign featured a fictitious brand of beer called schludwiller beer . a series of popular television commercials depicted schludwiller as a beer brewed by the california eastern brewing co. in california . in one of the ads a border patrolman played by actor dick curtis asked earl and vern the drivers of the schludwiller beer truck well now where you fellas going with all that beer schludwiller came complete with its own motto in latin quod nesciunt sibi damno non erit roughly what they don t know won t hurt them . the henry weinhard s brand repositioned as a quality microbrew was able to regain and sustain its popularity . however its favored status with beer drinkers was not enough to save the original portland brewery from eventual closure . like many businesses in the united states at the time the blitz weinhard brewery succumbed to purchase and resale by a number of companies in the late 20th century including pabst brewing company and miller brewing company . brewery edit henry weinhard s brewery 1888 in 1862 henry weinhard moved to portland oregon and purchased an old brewery on the corner of nw first and davis before moving in 1864 to a facility occupying two full blocks at nw 12th and burnside . 1 this blitz weinhard brewery in portland survived as a brewery until 1999 when it was sold by the stroh brewery company who owned it at the time to the miller brewing company who closed it down . the brewery was a fixture of an old industrial and warehouse district which beginning in the 1990s has become known as the pearl district in downtown portland and its closure marked the beginning of a massive urban rejuvenation project . following the closure of the portland brewery in 1999 henry weinhard s was brewed at the olympia brewery in tumwater washington until that brewery too was closed in 2003 . some of its beers were brewed under contract at the full sail brewing company until 2013 . the henry weinhard s private reserve brand survives today and is currently owned by sabmiller . gourmet sodas edit as well as beer henry weinhard s also has a gourmet soda distribution based in colfax california . here is a listing of their sodas root beer vanilla cream soda orange cream black cherry cream references edit brewery blocks portland oregon brewery history alworth jeff . goodbye blitz weinhard another piece of local history is about to be devoured by a faceless corporation . willamette week february 24 1999 . boyce bert . the mash . willamette week december 22 1999 . external links edit henry weinhard s brewery v t e sabmiller beer africa south african breweries carling black label castle lagerf castle lite castle milk stout hansa hansa marzen gold hansa pilsener kgalagadi breweries limited st louis lagerf st louis export ohlssons lager intafact beverages limited hero lager eagle lager castle 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