This covers the beer industry in the US from the mid 1800's to present day. From the early beginnings of German immigrants hooking beer drinkers on lagers from beer giants like Pabst, Anhueser-Busch, Miller, Best, Schlitz and Coors. Through the anti-saloon days, Prohibition, growth of big beer an...
There’s no way to know if the seized bootleg beer came from the breweries named on the wooden cases, or if racketeers had loaded their illicit brew into whatever packing boxes they could find. But many legitimate brewers who once vowed to obey the law found it hard to resist the temptation of ill...
Some digital sources do not contain page numbers; in those cases, I’ve noted that the document was accessed online. Introduction [>] “Truly we may be called”: “Consumption of Meat,” American Farmer and Spirit of the Agricultural Journals of the Day 3, no. 2 (June 2, 1841): 9. [>] I respect...