Green Lake Public Library (Caestecker)

The breweries of Oshkosh, their rise and fall, by Ron Akin & Lee Reiherzer

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

portraitsillustrationsmaps

index present

non fiction

The breweries of Oshkosh

811136292

by Ron Akin & Lee Reiherzer

their rise and fall

History of a dozen Oshkosh breweries; from small, neighborhood brewhouses to large, industrial beer factories. Richly illustrated, a lively history of the city, its beer and the people who made it

Oshkosh brewery map -- Welcome to the breweries of Oshkosh -- The early breweries -- The Rahr Brewing Company -- Oshkosh and the tied-house era -- Horn & Schwalm's Brooklyn Brewery -- John Glatz's Union Brewery -- Lorenz Kuenzl's Gambrinus Brewery -- 1893: prelude to a merger -- The Oshkosh Brewing Company: the pre-prohibition years -- Prohibition comes to Oshkosh -- The Oshkosh Brewing Company: The Chief of Oshkosh -- The Peoples Brewing Company -- Informed by the past: brewing returns to Oshkosh -- Index