{
  "id": 5185387,
  "title": "Pabst Blue Ribbon offers $20,000 reward to help find its missing beer",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/pabst-blue-ribbon-offers-20-000-reward-to-help-find-its-missing-beer",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-02T21:53:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Associated Press",
    "slug": "associated-press",
    "url": "https://apnews.com/article/beer-pabst-blue-ribbon-theft-948695b502646050a41355b85dfac4f4"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Pabst Blue Ribbon is offering a $20,000 reward to locate 1,602 cases of their beer that went missing in Southern California. The company's CEO, Greig DeBow, posted the offer on TikTok, stating, \"I’m sure they look cool with a garage full of PBR,\" but emphasized that it's not cool to steal. The missing beer was taken from a warehouse in Montclair, California, in two separate incidents on Aug. 17. In the first heist, $45,000 worth of beer was delivered to Tucson, Arizona, but never reached its destination. The next day, a \"purported subcontracting company\" used fake documents to pick up another $25,000 worth of beer. Both thefts occurred at an Anheuser-Busch distribution center near Los Angeles, resulting in the loss of 40,000 pounds of beer, valued at $70,000. DeBow urged anyone with information to email [email protected] by Sept. 9.",
  "summary": "Pabst Blue Ribbon wants its beer back , and it’s offering a reward to help that happen. Greig DeBow, the CEO of Pabst Brewing Co., said Wednesday that the company will pay up to $20,000 to anyone who provides new information that leads to the recovery of…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}