Manila Beer Brewmasters

Manila Beer Brewmasters
Joined PBA	1984
History	Beer Hausen Brewmasters 1984 Manila Beer Brewmasters 1985-86
Team colors	Yellow, Maroon and White
Owner(s)	Lucio Tan
Company	Asia Brewery
Head coaches	see coaches list
Championships	none
Disbanded	1986
Uniforms
Light uniform Dark uniform

Manila Beer'^[1] was a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) from 1984-1986. It was formed after Delta Motors, owner of league pioneer Toyota sold the franchise to Basic Holdings, Inc, the company that owns Asia Brewery which in turn manufactures Manila Beer and Beer Hausen.

As part of the sale of Toyota, Beer Hausen acquired Toyota's players lock, stock and barrel. However, not everyone agreed to the sale as Robert Jaworski, Francis Arnaiz, Arnie Tuadles and Chito Loyzaga refused to be a part of the new team. Jaworski described the sale as a 'farce,' and that players should not be sold "por kilo." At that time, Beer Hausen was intent on making Ramon Fernandez as the franchise player of the team with Jaworski relegated in the background.

With four players refusing to join Beer Hausen, then-PBA president Carlos "Honeyboy" Palanca III offered to take in two of the four renagade players, with Jaworski and Arnaiz joining his team, Gilbey's Gin, while Tuadles and Loyzaga joined Great Taste. This marked the beginning of the Jaworski-Fernandez rivalry and directly contributed at being the cornerstone in making Ginebra arguably the most popular team in Philippine basketball history with Jaworski at the forefront.

In its inaugural season, Fernandez won the MVP and led his team to the runner-up finish in the 2nd.All-Filipino Conference, losing to Great Taste via sweep, 3-0.

In 1985, the team was renamed Manila Beer and they bolstered their lineup through the acquisition of Crispa players Atoy Co, Yoyoy Villamin and Mon Cruz. before the Third conference started, Fernandez was traded to Tanduay for Abet Guidaben. Manila Beer made it to the finals for the second time in the Reinforced conference, and was swept in the best of seven series, 4-0 against guest team Northern Consolidated Corp. (NCC)

In 1986, powered by imports Michael Young and Harold Keeling, Manila Beer placed 2nd in the Open (3rd) Conference, losing to Ginebra San Miguel, powered by the super import tandem of Billy Ray Bates and Michael Hackett, 4 games to 1. In Game 4, they lost 135-145 in a classic double overtime game where Ginebra's Jaworski (who was then 40 years old), and imports Bates and Hackett all played 58 minutes. the Asia Brewery franchise would then called it quits after just three years in the league.

Players

Members of the PBA's 25th anniversary all-time team are in boldface.

• Ramon Fernandez - #10 center-forward
• Alberto "Abet" Guidaben - #5 center
• Lim Eng Beng - guard
• Fortunato "Atoy" Co, Jr - #6 guard
• Nicanor "Nick" Bulaong - #20 forward
• Emerito "Emer" Legaspi - #18 guard
• Leopoldo "Pol" Herrera - #14 forward
• Edgardo Cordero - #3 forward
• Ricardo "Ricky" Relosa - #15 center-forward
• Timoteo "Tim" Coloso - #13 guard-forward
• Elpidio "Yoyoy" Villamin - #13 forward-center
• Mon Cruz - #14 guard
• Mike Bilbao - #4 guard
• Rodolfo "Rudy" Lalota - center
• Gary Vargas - forward
• Matthew "Fritz" Gaston - guard
• Abet Gutierrez - #13 -guard
• Vic Sanchez - #12 - forward
• Angelito "Itoy" Esguerra - #16 -guard-forward
• Roberto "Bert" dela Roa - #7 - guard

Imports

• William 'Butch' Hays - 84 3rd Conference - Best Import; led the team to a 3rd place finish
• Doug Harris - 85 Open
• Lewis Brown - 85 Open (replaced Harris)
• Francoise Wise - 85 Reinforced; lost to NCC in the finals
• Butch Hays / Carlton Cooper - 86 Reinforced
• Michael Young / Harold Keeling - 86 Open; lost to Ginebra in the finals

Coaches

• Bonnie Carbonell
• Ed Ocampo
• Joe Lipa
• Tito Eduque

References

1. ^ MYPBA Forums

External links

• MYPBA.com Forums

Preceded by Toyota Super Corollas

PBA teams genealogies 1984-86

Succeeded by (end)