Posts tagged with temperance

July 1, 2007 | Beer Enthusiast

Celebrating the End of Prohibition

By Fred Eckhardt

As I write this, I am reminded that it was in April of 1933 that we got beer back from the prohibitionists after thirteen dry years. Prohibition lasted another eight months until December of that year, when newly-elected president Franklin ...

November 1, 2000 | History

We Want Beer!

By Carl Miller

Nobody could hazard a guess at how many thousands of mugs of beer had been served over the old mahogany bar at Weis Brothers Saloon. Bartender John Mich, who had manned the beer taps at the Milwaukee watering hole since ...