CHANGE: Schlitz beer discontinued after 177 years.

UPDATE AND BUMP (FROM GLENN): Schlitz was once one of the top brands in America. Then the bean-counters got involved, cutting corners to save production costs. Customers noticed it didn’t taste the same, switched brands, and never came back, even when Schlitz ran a series of ads saying they’d fixed the problem featuring their master brewer.

A cautionary tale for other companies, and for political parties.