Hamm's was in the northeast in the 1960s, when they were still in the Top Ten of US brewers - larger than Coors or Miller in 1964, for instance - and even had a brewery in Baltimore (ex-Gunther, future-Schaefer), but their marketing region shrunk as they went downhill and were sold twice in the 1970s (to a group of distributors/investors and then to Olympia). More @Wikipedia
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