snuffy19608
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- Feb 26, 2013
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- Reading. Pa.
Did soldiers in the ACW enjoy beer? If so, what kinds/varieties? I was thinking of trying home brewing, and might as well make a beverage to go with the hardtack.
In the 1862 Sioux Uprising, 190 buildings in New Ulm, MN were burned. The Dakota warriors spared the August Schell Brewery (still in existence). They were thinking ahead.
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In the early 1870s, the process of pasteurization was applied to beer bottling allowing the increasingly popular lighter (in color and body) lager beers to be bottled and transported long distances without spoilage - something impossible before that time (Wilson 1981). Pasteurization in hand with the invention of improved closures like the Lightning stopper and later the crown cap (which both replaced the less reliable wired down cork), more accommodating laws related to brewing, improved transportation systems, and a growing taste of Americans for lager beers, allowed bottled beer to become big business throughout the country. Nationally distributed beers, led by the innovative Anheuser-Busch Company, began to make their way across the country by 1872 or 1873 ( Anderson 1973; Wilson 1981). The ability to pasteurize and ship beer long distances diminished the importance of local breweries with its reliance on kegs and draught beer. This was so innovative that the Anheuser-Busch beer bottles shipped to the West proudly proclaimed on their labels that their beer would "Keep In Any Climate."
Been There, Done That! Great place.In the 1862 Sioux Uprising, 190 buildings in New Ulm, MN were burned. The Dakota warriors spared the August Schell Brewery (still in existence). They were thinking ahead.
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