Originally Posted by
GetSetJetSet
What happened to them all? It's lousy there's no variety at the bottom now. It's natty, keystone or the bud/miller/coors lights.
You answered your own question. You could probably track most of those old labels to an acquisition by one of the above. In the case of Ballantine it appears that it went Ballantine->Falstaff, then eventually Pabst->Miller, who apparently only markets the Ballantine brand, not the original recipe.