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| image   = frederick_pabst.jpg
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| caption = Frederick Pabst, founder of Pabst Breweries
| name    = Frederick Pabst
| born    = 28 March 1836
| died    = 1 January 1904
| text    = Frederick Pabst was a German-American businessman who ran the Best Brewing Company, which was later renamed as the [[Pabst Brewing Company]].

He was born in [[Saxony]], [[Germany]], but in 1848, he emigrated with his parents to [[Chicago]]. There he became, first a hotel waiter, then a cabin-boy on a [[Lake Michigan]] steamer. Eventually, he became a captain of one of these vessels. In this last capacity, he met a [[Germany|German]], Phillip Best, the owner of a small but prosperous [[brewery]] founded in 1844 in [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin|Milwaukee]], and married his daughter.

In 1862, Pabst was taken into partnership in his father-in-law's brewery and began to study the details of the business. After obtaining a thorough mastery of the art of brewing, Pabst turned his attention to extending the market for the [[beer]] and before long had raised the output of the Best brewery to 100,000 barrels a year. The brewery was eventually converted into a public company and its capital repeatedly increased in order to cope with the continually increasing trade. He became president of the corporation in 1873. Later, the brewing company's name was changed to the [[Pabst Brewing Company]]. 
| link    = Frederick Pabst
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