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In 1872, Frank Fehr moved to Louisville, Kentucky and started brewing. He developed the recipe for Fehr’s XL (Extra Lager) and won Louisville’s Southern Exposition, every year from 1883 to 1887. Fehr’s XL was the most widely consumed beer in Louisville when prohibition started in 1920.
Brewing companies vary widely in the volume and variety of beer produced, from small nanobreweries to microbreweries to massive multinational conglomerate macrobreweries. In 2012 Kentucky's 21 breweries and brewpubs employed 270 people directly, and more than 8,000 others in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing.
He came to the United States as a young man in 1854. first finding work in the brewing industry in New York, Louisville, and Cincinnati. [1] He moved to Newport, Kentucky, in 1870. He was the founder of the George Wiedemann Brewing Company, which became Kentucky's largest brewery. It was located at 601 Columbia Street in Newport, Kentucky.
Craft beer is an increasingly profitable business for the city, home to over 14 locally owned breweries including Bluegrass Brewing Company and Falls City Brewing Company. In 2013 overall beer sales were reported to be down 2% from the previous year, whereas craft beer sales had risen 18%. [8]
In the late 1990s, Pipkin Brewing Company began contract brewing and bottling Bluegrass Brewing Company beers. In 2001, the Bluegrass Brewing Company acquired the Pipkin Brewing Company, which was then located at 636 East Main Street in Louisville. At that time, the brewpub and brewery separated into two distinct companies sharing a common name.
The New Albanian Brewing Company, located in the Metropolitan Louisville area in New Albany, Indiana, is a regional craft brewer with distribution throughout the states of Indiana and Kentucky. It has been rated as high as sixth among the world's craft breweries according to Ratebeer.com. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is the first commercial brewery to ...
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ZZ Packer, writer; born in Chicago; lived in Louisville in her teens and graduated from Seneca High School in 1990; Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles sports columnist, panelist on ESPN's Around the Horn; George Dennison Prentice, newspaper editor and journalist for the Louisville Journal; Scott Ritcher, magazine publisher of K Composite Magazine, musician