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The Peter Hand Brewing Company was an American brewery established in 1891 by Prussian immigrant and American Civil War veteran Peter Hand in Chicago, Illinois.The company is notable for popularizing the light beer recipe it would later sell to Miller Brewing, which thereafter rebranded it "Light Beer from Miller", and, ultimately, Miller Lite. [1]
Brau Holding International GmbH & Co. KGaA is a holding company for several breweries in Germany. It is the sixth largest holding company of breweries in Germany, with a total production volume of 4.5 million hectolitres (3,800,000 US bbl ) in 2014.
The company brewed Dixie beer temporarily following Hurricane Katrina when the Dixie brewing facilities were damaged by the storm. Covington Brewhouse was founded in 2005 as Heiner Brau [ 4 ] when it was the third brewery established in Louisiana after Prohibition (following Abita ), and Crescent City Brewhouse, established in 1991, by local ...
1960s - Botswana Breweries Limited is started in Francistown to brew Chibuku traditional beer. 1970s - Sechaba Brewery Holdings Limited (SBHL) was set up to hold investments in the beverage sector. 1977 - SAB acquires management control of KBL (40% equity stake). KBL begins bottling Coca-Cola products. 1989 - SBHL is listed on the Botswana ...
Early Hoff-Brau labels show both the Centlivre crown and the Berghoff eagle above the brand name. Hoff-Brau and Hoff-Brau Gold Star were produced at the Berghoff facility, and production of the brand ceased when the Berghoff brewery closed in the mid 1950s, eventually selling the physical plant to Falstaff, which operated it until the early 1990s.
By the 1950s, the brewery became one of the largest breweries in the country, producing up to 150,000 barrels a year which were sold everywhere west of the Mississippi. In the early 1960s Tivoli continued to grow with the Hi-En-Brau brand. When Loraine Good died in 1965, Carl and Joseph Occhiatio purchased the Tivoli-Union Brewery from the estate.
Philistine pottery beer jug. Beer is one of the oldest human-produced drinks. The written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia records the use of beer, and the drink has spread throughout the world; a 3,900-year-old Sumerian poem honouring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, contains the oldest surviving beer-recipe, describing the production of beer from barley bread, and in China ...
After Prohibition, the brewer was the first to obtain a beer manufacturing permit from the city to resume beer production. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1953, the brewery's workers went on strike at the same time as the other five major brewers in the city ( Schlitz , Pabst , Miller , Blatz , and Gettelman ) in the 1953 Milwaukee brewery strike . [ 5 ]