One beer and meals pairing that we will get behind is the traditional ice-cold beer and scorching canine. It’s nice at a ballgame or actually anytime and the 2 not too long ago got here collectively for an attention-grabbing occasion that set to problem a world report!
On Tuesday, July 22, 2025, Pabst Gentle teamed up with the Joliet Slammersbaseball group from Joliet, Illinois to interrupt the World Wiener Drop File! Sure, the ball group chartered a helicopter to hold over 2,500 cooked and wrapped scorching canines to drop from a helicopter to interrupt the Guinness Bood of World Data. The dropping of the glizzies needed to be accomplished in an hour and the dropping needed to happen throughout the confines of Slammers Stadium.
At 6:35pm, the dropping of wieners started with the objective of breaking historical past. With the recent canines first being dropped within the outfield, gamers and group employees made their approach to that a part of the sector to start selecting up the free canines and tossing them into the sold-out crowd. As soon as all was stated and executed, the Slammers dropped 2,600 packaged scorching canines for followers to take pleasure in in between innings.
A promotion like this was not new to the group or its possession employees. The Joliet Slammers baseball group is owned by a bunch that features actor Invoice Murray and two others, Mike Veeck and Mike’s son, William Night time Prepare Veeck. Mike Veeck has a historical past in working baseball groups by way of the years whereas internet hosting some outlandish occasions. As proprietor of the Chicago White Sox within the Seventies, Mike was the one which got here up with the notorious Disco Demolition Night time that came about at Comiskey Park in Chicago.
To assist get the groups followers excited for this Wiener Drop, the Slammers supplied up some candy offers for that night time’s motion. Choose seats have been simply $2.60 a ticket, get it, 2,600 wieners being dropped, and Pabst Gentle was simply $2.00!
“We’ve executed a variety of wild promotions on the ballpark — however dropping 2,600 scorching canines from a helicopter for followers to eat to aim a world report? That’s a brand new one, even for us,” stated Night time Prepare Veeck, Slammers EVP and Co-Proprietor, in a press launch. “Partnering with Pabst Gentle to have fun their new beer in essentially the most absurd, scrumptious means potential simply felt proper. We’ve acquired beer, baseball, hotdogs, and helicopters…and at $2.60 for a ticket, what extra do you want for a terrific Tuesday night time in Joliet?”
Even actor Invoice Murray acquired in on the enjoyable. Within the video beneath, Murray, who grew up within the Chicago space, will be seen tossing a couple of glizzies into the stands for the followers to take pleasure in!
“There actually isn’t a greater trio than beer, hotdogs and baseball,” acknowledged Hunter Cox, Pabst Model Supervisor, in a press launch. “While you consider consuming a hotdog or being at a baseball recreation your first thought might be “man, a beer could be fairly good proper now.” So, listening to the Slammers group needed Pabst Gentle to be concerned with this world report breaking thought we needed to leap on. 2,600 hotdogs raining down, $2 Pabst Lights and tickets at simply $2.60… It doesn’t get a lot better.”
The Joliet Slammers are part of the Frontier League, an impartial skilled baseball league, that’s really impartial as it’s not affiliated with Main League Baseball.
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D.J. is a Portland, Oregon primarily based author that spent his childhood within the Midwest. With over 25 years underneath his belt of consuming beer at festivals throughout America and the world, he has developed a powerful appreciation and understanding of craft beer and the trade that surrounds it. He will be present in any of the nice breweries or beer bars that make Portland one of the best beer metropolis on this planet. His writing can be discovered within the archives of Northwest Brewing Information and will be adopted on Twitter and Instagram at @hopapalooza.
