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The Drink of Democracy I'm working my way through this wonderful article on the history of American beer. At one point, it describes how pilsner/lagers caused the popularity of beer (previously overshadowed by whiskey and rum) to skyrocket in the mid-1800's, and led to the establishment of many big American brewers in a twenty-year span. Heard of any of these?
In 1842 the Prussian Schaefer brothers, Frederick and Maximilian, set up the first commercial lager brewery in New York City, and two years later Philadelphia had one, the forerunner of C. Schmidt and Sons. In Milwaukee the daughter of the brewer Jacob Best married the steamboat captain Frederick Pabst; her brother Charles set up a lager brewery in 1848 and seven years later sold out to a young brewer fresh from Germany named Frederick Miller. In 1856 in the same city the brewer August Krug died, and his widow married the bookkeeper Joseph Schlitz. Eberhard Anheuser, a St. Louis soap manufacturer, acquired a small brewery in 1860 and then had the good fortune to acquire a son-in-law as a partner, a talented salesman named Adolphus Busch.
Don't worry, the good stuff's still to come...
Wednesday, June 05, 2002
2:22 PM
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