Fire, Hops and Beer Wagons: The Beer History of Milwaukee

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Milwaukee has a reputation as America's "Brew City." But of all the Midwestern cities packed with farm-adjacent German immigrant families, why did Milwaukee thrive as America's brewery for so many years? Historian Ben Barbera lays out the economic forces and acts of God that built the houses of Miller, Pabst and Schlitz.
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The Milwaukee Beer Museum & Beer Bar (presented by the Milwaukee County Historical Society)
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The Wisconsin Historical Society
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americanbreweriana.org/
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@alexius23 Жыл бұрын

As a young man I used to work construction. At various times I worked on a building project at Schlitz, Pabst and finally at Miller Breweries. At all those places there open taps around the Brewery. My foreman would always say to us “don’t touch”. Some of my cohorts always did. In 1984 I was working at Miller. One of the brewery workers sadly told me that after Labor Day all the in-house tappers would be shut down. Someone finally figured that having free beer available 24/7 while workers were running machinery was actually a bad idea. This ended a tradition that began in the European Middle Ages, it crossed the Ocean until it made it to the Milwaukee breweries.

@brucevilla 3 жыл бұрын

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@greatwhite34ify 3 жыл бұрын

Is no one else watching this video completely blown away by the number of beers people could be having in a day at the time? Even if they’re 3-4%, which is very close to the modern day light beer, 30-50 would have someone blacking out and barfing in a gutter on their way home from work if they didn’t pass out before the end of their shift. If you’re having 50 a day and working a turn of the century 14 hour shift that means you’re having just over 3.5 beers per hour of your shift. I’m not saying the person in this video is wrong, but I am saying if that number is right it’s absolutely a wonder how anyone in that day and age got anything done while being absolutely toasted off their tits.

@editingtutorials4280 2 жыл бұрын

The number does seem a bit too high. I wonder if he was referring to 8 oz. glasses instead of imperial pints.