Lone Star Brewing Company specimen stock certificate c1975 (Texas)

Very rare beer brewing piece. Perfect vignette of the Lone Star Beer logo. Issued and cancelled. Specimen (printers sample) stock certificate. Circa 1975 from printers cancellation. Measures approximately 12 x 8 inches.

Lone Star Brewing Company was established in 1884, in San Antonio, Texas, and brewed Alamo Beer. It ceased operations in 1919. In 1940, also in San Antonio, a new and unrelated company was founded with the same name, and brewed Lone Star Beer.

As of 1999, Lone Star Brewing Company is owned by Pabst Brewing Company, and as of 2025 their beer is produced in Texas by Anheuser-Busch. The castle-like Old Lone Star Brewery building in San Antonio, which was built between 1895 and 1904, has been used since 1925 to house the art collection that is now the San Antonio Museum of Art.

It was made in San Marcos before the Alamo Brewing Company of San Antonio in 1874, the company was purchased by Anheuser-Busch in 1895, when it was housed in the Old Lone Star Brewery located on 200 West Jones Avenue. The original Lone Star Bottling Works opened in San Antonio in the 1890s, and by 1903 was selling 65,000 barrels of beer annually.

With the end of Prohibition in 1933, a new brewery under the name Sabinas Brewing Company was constructed at 600 Lone Star Boulevard and operated under the Sabinas name until 1939. The company then operated under name to the Champion Brewing Company until 1940, when it was purchased by the Muchlebach Brewing Company of Kansas City, Missouri. The company rebranded itself as the Lone Star Brewing Company and began officially producing Lone Star Beer that year.

Olympia Brewing Co. of Washington bought Lone Star in 1976, and it changed hands again in 1983 when Wisconsin's G. Heileman bought Olympia. Detroit-based Stroh Brewery Co. then bought Heileman and closed the San Antonio brewery in 1996, moving beer production to Longview, Texas, and signaling the end of San Antonio as a major brewing town.

Milwaukee-based Pabst bought most of the Stroh brands, including Lone Star, in 1999, and began brewing Lone Star at the San Antonio Pearl Brewery to great fanfare. In 2000, the Pearl Brewery was closed because it was outdated and would have been too expensive to continue to operate or to bring up to date. Production of Lone Star is currently contracted out to non-Pabst-owned breweries (e.g. Miller Brewing Company in Fort Worth and, beginning in early 2025, Anheuser-Busch in Houston).

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