With the Eighteenth Amendment repealed in 1933, surviving breweries in Texas eagerly returned to beer business. Larger national brands, such as Anheuser-Busch and Miller, entered the Texas market. Smaller, locally owned breweries struggled to compete. Several shut down or were absorbed by these larger chains. Of the eight major pre-prohibition era breweries, only three - Lone Star Brewery, Pearl Brewery, and Spoetzl Brewery - survived the dry years and the Great Depression. Because of the business decisions these breweries made in response to the social and political changes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they still survive to this day. Lone Star Brewery and Pearl Brewery operate as subsidies of national conglomerate, Pabst Brewing Company. Spoetzl Brewery - now Shiner Brewery - still operates as an independent brewery. All three of these breweries form a small portion of the Texas identity and a considerable portion of the Texas brewing industry.