Lone Star, The Official Beer Of Texas, Is Mexican?

Lone Star beer is a Texas tradition thanks to a hardcore ad campaign but drinkers, Texan and non - Texan alike, have been a little misled about a couple of things.

Like some people I know, Lone Star lies about its age and doesn't ever seem to bring up the fact that it has roots in Mexico. You can thank the geniuses who were running the USA at the time for that chapter in the Lone Star story.

Lone Star beer is one of the most Texan things about Texas and has been for about 140 years ... according to them anyway.

How Old Is Lone Star?

Folks usually lie about their age to appear younger, Lone Star does the opposite - they want you to think they're older. The Lone Star brewery was opened in 1884 ... which actually makes it 142, just sayin' ... but it never produced a beer called "Lone Star". Their brewed "Alamo" Beer which was Hank Hill's beer of choice on "King Of The Hill".

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Prohibition shut them down around 1919 and they never reopened. After prohibition was repealed in 1933, new breweries opened up which would mean todays Lone Star is actually only 93. (Sneaky ad people.) Trouble is, Lone Star was still a few years away.

Lone Star Is Mexican?

Yes and no ... well, sorta.  The owner of a Mexican based beer company ... Sabinas Brewery, in Sabinas, Mexico ... set up shop in San Antonio and brewed Sabinas beer until 1939. From 1939 - 1940, the company operated as Champion Brewing. Then, finally, in 1940, Muchlebach Brewing Company bought Champion and started producing Lone Star.

Which means Lone Star is actually 86. Not 93 and certainly not 140. Which, as I pointed out earlier, would be wrong, even if it was right since the gap between 1884 and 2026 is actually 142 years.

I know, I know - too many boring numbers. Let's switch to fun numbers like, how many Lone Star's we can drink. I'll start now ...