Old Pearl Beer sign on the freeway.
I haven't seen Pearl for a long time...
The Pearl Brewing Company in San Antonio started in 1881 as the J. B. Behloradsky Brewery.
The Pearl name came from a German brewmaster that had thought that the bubbles in a freshly poured glass of beer resembled pearls. He called them "Perlen."
The San Antonio Brewing Association purchased the formula and name from the Kaiser-Beck Brewery in Bremen, Germany.
During the early 20th century, Pearl used advertisement campaigns that featured Judge Roy Bean - one of the more colorful
and popular law enforcement personalities of the wild, wild West.
In 1952 the San Antonio Brewing Association changed its corporate name to the Pearl Brewing Company in an effort to more closely associate itself with its product.
In January 2001 the doors to the brewery were closed.