Beer in the Philippines country’s liberation, Don Andres Soriano got San Miguel Brewery back and gave away all that was left of Balintawak Beer Brewery’s supply to American and Filipino troops rather than bottle it under San Miguel’s label. It took them two weeks of revelry to consume the brew. A short-lived beer, Halili Beer was manufactured by the F.F. Halili Enterprises, a company established by former Bulacan Governor Fortunato Halili. The company, whose brewery was built along Balintawak in Quezon City, also owned other products and business ventures including Mission Beverages, Goody Rootbeer and the Halili Transit. It died off for an unknown
Education in the Philippines the Katipunan. Some schools established during this period were founded by non-Spaniards, and were therefore not colonial creations. Damian Domingo, a Chinese mestizo, established in 1823 a fine arts school known as the "Academia de Dibujo y Pintura", which is now the Fine Arts College of the University of the Philippines. In 1868, Doña Margarita Roxas de Ayala, also of Chinese mestizo ancestry, established the girls' school "La Concordia". The defeat of Spain following the Spanish–American War led to the short-lived Philippine Independence movement, which established the insurgent First Philippine Republic. The schools maintained by Spain for more than three