his son being able to attain the position of brew master at Iron City brewing. Skills which had been learned while working with his father helped him catapult to the position. Quality over quantity was paramount to them and this carried well to those restarting production of alcohol at the brewery. Peter Zugel remained at the brewery as brew master until his retirement in 1973. In the 1970s, the Pittsburgh Brewing Company acquired the Queen City Brewing Company (1901–1976) of Cumberland, Maryland. The Queen City Brewing Company was also known as the Old German Brewing Company and included the Cumberland Brewing Company (1890–1958), which was purchased by the brewery in 1958. At its peak, the Queen City brewery produced over 250,000 barrels of beer a year in Cumberland. The company prospered during the 1950s and 1960s; however, labor disputes and declining sales caused the Queen City Brewing Company to close in December 1974, transferring its Old German, Old Export, Heritage House, Old Dutch, Brown Derby, Gamecock Ale, and American brands to the Pittsburgh Brewing Company. The Queen City brewery was demolished in April 1975, ending a combined 152 years of brewing in Cumberland, Maryland. In January, 1974, the Pittsburgh Brewing Company acquired the Augustiner, Mark V, Robin Hood and Gambrinus brand names from August Wagner Breweries, Inc., Columbus, Ohio. By 1977, Pittsburgh Brewing Company was one of just 49 breweries left in the U.S.A. To rebound from difficult years, the brewery introduced a new light beer, Iron City Light — or IC Light. IC Light's aggressive marketing campaign targeted the young beer drinker. Both men and women enjoyed the new beer, which quickly captured 80 percent of the local light-beer market. IC Light’s popularity apparently also heightened the sales of regular Iron City beer, as it regained the position of southwestern Pennsylvania’s favorite beer. In 1986, Pittsburgh Brewing Company was acquired and merged with Alan Bond's Bond Brewing Holdings Ltd. of Perth, Western Australia, and two years later he integrated Pittsburgh Brewing into the structure of its corporate sister, G. Heileman Brewing Company. They were again separated in 1991 when A. Bond, suffering financially, sold Heileman, and he gave up the Pittsburgh brewery the next year to western Pennsylvania entrepreneur Michael Carlow, who made it a subsidiary of his Pittsburgh Food & Beverage Company. When Carlow was forced to relinquish control of the brewery because of PNC Bank's allegations of