A History of Red Stripe Beer
Red Stripe has an interesting international history. The beer came into this world along the Mississippi River in Galena, Illinois….
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Yuengling Beer History
Today, Yuengling is the oldest operating brewery in the US. It all started back in 1829, when David Gottlieb Jüngling,…
Georg August Krug, Milwaukee Brewer
Georg August Krug was born April 15, 1815, in Miltenberg, in the grand duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, which would eventually become…
The Origins of Prohibition
In the United States, the idea of prohibiting the sale and/or consumption of alcohol had first emerged alongside the religious…
Rainier Beer and the Seattle Brewing Company
In 1854, A. B. Rabbeson opened the first commercial brewery in Seattle, which, following the California Gold Rush, was growing…
Old Milwaukee Beer Origins and History
Old Milwaukee came on the scene in the 1930s, shortly after Franklin Delano Roosevelt ushered in the end of Prohibition….
Whistle Stop, Wet One – US Marines, Korean War
At the end of WWII, the United States oversaw Japanese disarmament in Korea south of the 38th parallel while the…
Beer at the Battle of Luzon, Pacific Theater, WWII
On January 9, 1945, the Allies launched an assault on the largest island in the Philippines, Luzon. Japanese kamikaze aircraft…
Hamm’s on Guadalcanal in WWII
Sometime in 1944 or 1945 in the midst of WWII, Coast Guardsman William E. Leonard, a machinist’s mate second class,…
Hudepohl Brewing Company
Ludwig Hudepohl II, the American-born son of a German immigrant, established Cincinnati’s Hudepohl Brewing Company in 1885. Though there were…
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