Anheuser-Busch and Miller, and threw in the towel after 149 years in business. Most of the Stroh brands, including Piels, were licensed to Pabst Brewing Company. Pabst discontinued the Piels label by April 2015. Revival A new company, Piels Brewing Company based in New York, successfully acquired the rights to the brand. Piels Brewing Company is owned by the direct descendants of the former Piel Bros. LP, President, Thomas P. Hawkes. It relaunched the brand in the New York region in 2018. Further reading Beer of Broadway Fame: The Piel Family and Their Brooklyn Brewery by Alfred W. McCoy, 2016, State University of New York Press Notes References External links Piels website Beer brewing companies based in New York City