Breweries That Couldn't Be Stopped By Prohibition

Weird History Food is going back to the times of Elliott Ness with Breweries That Survived Prohibition. The 18th Amendment didn't do a whole lot in the way of making America sober up. It did, however, do a lot of damage to businesses across the country, mainly breweries and distilleries that were unable to keep going after their main products were made illegal. From 1920 to 1933, the federal government spent outrageous sums of money failing miserably at enforcing a law most people hated.
#beer #breweries #weirdhistoryfood

[@tremorsfan]

Many wine companies made what were called "grape bricks" to make grape juice at home. They had sly instructions like "add one teaspoon full of benzoate of soda to prevent fermentation".

[@miguelramirez5972]

The Brotherhood Winery in New York was the only winery in the U.S. that was legally allowed to continue producing alcohol under religious exclusion rights since they supplied churches with ritual wine. This makes them the oldest continuously producing supplier in the U.S., and their prohibition era church wine branded "Rosario" is still produced today.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

Did you know that Michigan's Saint Julian Winery is right behind? In 1921 it moved to Ontario to keep producing wine for sacramental & general consumption, then moved back to the USA in 1933. Since 1936 it has been located in Paw-Paw Michigan.

[@tz8785]

Brotherhood may be the oldest, but the Wente Vineyards have the same story of survival through sacramental wine.

[@KevinWindsor1971]

Too bad Pabst didn't make cream cheese. You could go to the bagel shop and get a Pabst schmear.

[@Joedirt3349]

😂

[@celebrity292]

Horrid 🤢🤘

[@btetschner]

A+ video! Fascinating video, had no idea of the range of strategies and tactics they used when Prohibition set in!

[@btetschner]

3:03 Busch Light was the unofficial beer we had at parties at Doane University. It is unusual for a college crowd to be so consistent on their choice of beer, especially considering the number of options.

[@cuy50]

How many god damn comments did you make? I count at least 6. Are you schizo? Drunk? What's going on buddy?

[@Joel-ip6pl]

Kids haven't grown up to appreciate or afford real beer, that's why they go with Busch.

[@btetschner]

@@Joel-ip6pl When you grow up from being a kid, you'll understand. You'll be 21 before you know it!

[@madmac8283]

The Spoetzl Brewery founded in 1909 is the oldest independent brewery in Texas and made it through prohibition by brewing near beer. Now known more commonly as Shiner beer.

[@rustyshacklefordrefined5756]

Texas can keep it, Shiner sucks.

[@alejandroramirez4470]

I tried their holiday beer, not so bad.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

The video misses Frankenmuth Brewery in Michigan. Established in 1862 as the Cass River Brewery, it survived Prohibition & today is still making beer. It provides 21 draft brews on tap every day from a selection of 36 beers that change seasonally.

[@NASCARFAN93100]

Prohibition Happened, So NASCAR Could Run

[@TracksideViews]

And the rest they say is history

[@dontew.6508]

Budweiser

[@Badmediatrack]

I think you mean drive

[@Jaclynantes1]

you guys are the best! thanks for the content.

[@sophiaisabelle01]

Beweries can still keep on going even if humans don't exist anymore. They're that powerful.

[@seanrowshandel1680]

This is a worldwide phenomenon. "Premium": $$$, "Strong": $$, "Extra Strong"/"Malt Liquor": $/$$. It has nothing to do with American "standards". The problem is that these drinks are pretty expensive (all of them), and they don't fit well into the lifestyles of working people who drink them. They raise life insurance rates. It's best to keep away from considering it to be "natural" to drink Any. They can make you need to use the toilet more frequently, and most tragically, you COULD smell like beer. Unless you're drinking them to maintain your health during a therapeutic "cycle" of drinking, it's really unadvisable altogether. If I had TWO DIGESTIVE TRACTS, then SURE, I WOULD argue in favor of these drinks. However, it just doesn't make sense. I buy SAUSAGES with the same money. Why would I use the same money, same digestive tract, and SAME DAY to drink beer?

[@juandacharroninja]

This reminds me of a company that sold grape juice concentrate in blocks with the legend "DO NOT ADD YEAST to te juice and store it in a damp, warm place or will turn into WINE". ;)

[@timclark7507]

Stroh was a brewery in Detroit that made ice cream. The brewery was closed in the 1980s but the ice cream is still made in the area. The label for the beer was sold off. You can still buy Stroh’s but it is brewed by a different brewers outside of Michigan.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

Actually Pabst just recently licensed Stroh's back to a local Michigan craft brewer call Brew Detroit. Using the original 1850 recipe it was set to ship that beer to local pubs in 2023.

[@timclark7507]

@@gregorybiestek3431 Cool. I will have to look for it. I am also a home brewer who toys with recreating extinct beers. I have been looking for any information on Bosch beer. It was a label from the Upper Peninsula.

[@cathyl.9453]

"From one beer lover to another, Stroh's!" 😊

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@timclark7507 Bosch Beer operated in the UP from 1874 to 1973. Some of its recipes have been picked up by a micro-brewer Keweenaw Brewing Company, started in 2004. It is sold across the UP, upper Wisconsin, & Northern Minnesota. It is also sold at one concession stand in Comerica Park during baseball season. The original Bosch building has been converted into artisan chocolate maker.

[@lorettapickett8522]

I enjoyed the history of the various breweries that made it through prohibition. Very informative.

[@latewizard301]

Budweiser selling hop flavoured barley malt syrup is so funny 😂

[@kwalsh1968]

Lima, Ohio is not pronounced with a short i, it’s pronounced with a long I. Thank you that’s all.

[@kelseyspringer7708]

Thank you!!! Fellow Ohian here.

[@jameslovelady7751]

Growing up in the 40s, our special occasion dinnerware was Coors. I still have a few bowls.

[@jenniferlonnes7420]

I find Coors ceramics at estate sales.

[@Dave-bj3pq]

😂

[@ElderRaven]

Prohibition was 1920 to 1933, WW1 ended in 1918...how were those connected with porcelain and Coors? Did I miss something there?

[@joshtheowl3590]

Even after a war, the economy and product shortages take a while to bounce back. Those breweries were helping fill those gaps at first to get a head start on their new ventures.

[@reed_reed]

Nice response chat gpt

[@jameslovelady7751]

Coors started their pottery business to combat the high price of shipping bottles from Ohio factories. During WW2 they made laboratory ceramics which were no longer coming from Germany.

[@ElderRaven]

See I think the video meant WW2 ..They said WW1 but that makes no sense since that was not during prohibition. @@jameslovelady7751

[@ElderRaven]

Which would be a pretty embarrassing error being a HISTORY channel! I need to trust my info! lol

[@andrewblake5312]

Thank you to the copy writers 🙏 finally giving Ms Narrator better content. Please keep it up

[@uprebel5150]

The Stroh's Brewery of Detroit made ice cream and even had dedicated stores for it.

[@jodiecarlson6955]

Schell's brewery in New Ulm, MN also survived Prohibition. They made a lot of soft drinks, and their 1919 root beer is still very popular. You can even buy it by the keg!

[@shadowflame2247]

fantastic as always, keep it up fellas

[@Blitzkrieg1976]

I drove by the Löwenbräu brewery in Munich back in the day in the Army. Very cool experience!

[@NewMessage]

Drunk's on you, I'm joke right now!

[@packertai1]

Definitely the Pabst Blue Ribbon surprised me! My dad loves that beer so I am going to tell about it and let him watch this video! Very interesting video! 🤓🤔😊🍻🍺

[@tonyx3768]

😆😆Lima, OH is like the bean. LYMuh.

[@btetschner]

5:20 Miller High Life would show up every once in the quads at Doane University when other students were just hanging out.

[@kelseyspringer7708]

Once again watch Glee it’s LY-ma. And the reason they were making so much “bread” was because that part of Ohio has a bunch of drinkers. It’s a large Catholic area.

[@juandacharroninja]

Well, someone had to provide them with both The Holy Wafer and The Sacramental Wine Amen

[@kelseyspringer7708]

@@juandacharroninja good point there

[@austindavis9713]

Utica Club was the first beer sold after prohibition. The FX Matt Brewery spent prohibition selling soft drinks and “bread” yeast with “warnings” on how NOT to make beer. Utica Club was on store shelves 30 minutes after the end of prohibition

[@ronaldreisinger4263]

Bevo is actually pronounced Beevo in the Anheuser-Busch produced soft drink.

[@btetschner]

At Doane University, there are now five fraternities and five sororities. The Chi Deltas, a sorority I spent a lot of time around there, have the mascot of lions.

[@CwL-1984]

This narrator puts me to sleep like a fifth of crown.

[@marvingecko1232]

WN😢

[@btetschner]

6:25 The Mask was the film debut of Cameron Diaz. I remember seeing that in our local theater, which my godparents now run. Such a funny film!

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks for this! 🍺

[@BrianLevine-q7e]

Annheiser- Busch survived with the help of Al Cspone. The company warehouses were emptied of brewing equipment and filled with scrap. Arson turned junk into money. "Scarface" used the brewing equipment and unemployed brewmasters to produce the beer he sold.

[@walls2ink]

Cmon guys...public needs more Timeline ❤

[@BIGBLOCK5022006]

Henry Weinhard made soft drinks during Prohibition. I actually tried their root beer, and it's quite good.

[@AnuschkaConoci]

I live near Feldschlösschen in Rheinfelden (Switzerland), it's an impressive sight.

[@coreywigal5435]

You should do a video about Hershey chocolate and competition it faced. And how it evolved from its beginning not being in chocolate to how it go into chocolate and dominated the competition

[@jerranspearman3369]

good video

[@timothywalker4563]

I love the one with an active brewery in the basement, who needs a man cave when you have product when you need a brake from Prohibition 😂😂😂😂

[@amyhill9127]

You can't kill Rock n Roll or Breweries.

[@IantheKid125]

POTTSVILLE BABY!

[@btetschner]

10:11 It would be hard to beat a film with Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney!

[@zortella]

FYI...Bevo is pronounced "Bee-vo"

[@woodchuck003]

The Great depression was not ended by the spending of WW2. The US actually had another recession after WW2 because it takes time for the economy to transition from one that made tanks to one that made consumer goods.

[@btetschner]

11:34 Zodiac is such a great film, such a mind-bender!

[@putoutmyfirewithgasoline1877]

Go away bot

[@tipulsar85]

My favorite story is Rainier's, but it wasn't covered.

[@SchwarzeBananen]

Near beer, I never knew that existed.

[@jollyjohnthepirate3168]

It also created modern organized crime.

[@alexelectricx]

More alcohol videos! Too bad it's not 2030 bcuz then you could do one on the history of weed prohibition in NA!

[@andybornhorst2633]

Lima, OH is pronounced 'lie'-'muh' not 'lee'-'muh'. Just saying

[@btetschner]

8:50 Arrested Development is so funny! That wink reminds me of the music video "Womanizer" by Britney Spears, definitely her sexiest music video.

[@skyden24195]

I'm not so much impressed as I am more entertained by the breweries that essentially said, "Prohibition? What's that?"

[@libraryBDL]

That's Lye - mah, Ohio, not Lee-mah. The latter is in Peru.

[@comettamer]

So kinda like a good running back, Pabst helped cover the spread.

[@jojohill27]

Yup and now it's Velveeta 🤔💭

[@leepfrog7405]

Knew someone who would put pepper inhis PBR 👍

[@seanwebb605]

Poppers ae sold as shoe cleaning solution.

[@btetschner]

6:41 Interesting there is a Beermann's beer, the reacter (on the channel REACT) that responds to me the most is Martine Beerman.

[@mason0450]

We use Coor's brand ceramics at work

[@James-kq6cl]

Does anyone know what the song in the background at 10:32 is? It reminds me of a song and I just can't place what it sounds like

[@Leonardokite]

Medical alcohol LOL, kind of like medical cannabis nowadays hahaha.

[@joshgreen2164]

Prohibition you mean government funded advertising.

[@monkeygraborange]

Prohibition would have never happened if lawmakers were prescient enough to have repealed the 19th Amendment first!

[@jenniferlonnes7420]

Yes, it would have.

[@CraftAero]

Breweries and distilleries in Canada not only survived but thrived !

[@btetschner]

9:03 Going to watch the Raimi Spider-Man Trilogy, just finished the Nolan Batman Trilogy on Halloween! The Raimi Spider-Man Trilogy and the Amazing Spider-Man films are only on Netflix till the end of November!

[@YaBoySL]

7:35 that HAS to be intentional, right?

[@Kimzapoppin]

This is the 3rd time I am making this comment. Why does it keep getting deleted? You forgot one. The first beer legally sold after prohibition was Utica Club, which is the area where I grew up. :)

[@bammagera127]

ik man!

[@MrZappaman420]

InBEV ruined rolling rock!

[@jimster1111]

is this voice actress rebecca brayton from watch mojo?

[@kirdot2011]

i wouldnt be surprised but how did you find out her name?!

[@jimster1111]

i asked chatgpt@@kirdot2011

[@marvingecko1232]

WN😅

[@Anonyhouse]

I always thought Yuengling beer was chinese, like Tsingtao or Harbin.

[@phill.2924]

As a Western-Ohioan, the town of Lima is pronounced like "lima bean." Research your video before shooting.

[@eseer3587]

UTICA CLUB?

[@btetschner]

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[@cuy50]

Yep. You are schizo.

[@OhGeeWillickersMister]

8:37 It's pronounced Lime-ah, not Leem-ah

[@jameskubajak8489]

Jim Beam is not a brewery, it's a distillery.

[@Goblin10532]

the base of the video is alcohol making companies. Brewery is just a common recognizable word for that.

[@Joe_Dirt82]

LYE-ma. LYE-ma! Can't stand people that can't take the time to look up how to pronounce a word.

[@Maxaldojo]

Not going to check comments... It's Ly-ma, not Li-ma... Buhuhuhuhahaha...

[@jeffyoungpeter]

838 it is pronounced lima ohio

[@timothydurkan]

I thumbs down every video with the girl. Lima... said Lye-ma.

[@tweezerjam]

Noil is such a lame name. Lion is great 😂

[@andrew1730]

The guy narrator is undeniably better

[@marvingecko1232]

WN😂

[@mauriciocastillo2344]

yeah but he is not getting the memo.....the gal narrator is just bad

[@petera.dinovijr.4967]

Prohibition no problem. Marketing to 1% of the population to be woke destroyed the number 1 beer in the world

[@FlashoftheBlades]

Intolerance by total douchenozzles was the real culprit.

[@joepauly2311]

Other narrator please.

[@marvingecko1232]

WN😂

[@robertmiller2367]

Wrong narrator voice.....

[@Dave-bj3pq]

Tissue?

[@jenniferlonnes7420]

Wrong attitude!

[@markjackson6431]

cry harder baby. when will you realize that the man youre weirdly obsessed is on the weekend. so if you see a video during the week then it’s the girl. like you’re doing this to yourself. weirdo

[@misterhat5823]

And you filled your diaper. This lady has a powerful effect on you.

[@marvingecko1232]

WN😂

[@GuapoDelmonte]

A very "strange" epoch in American history, as they "invented" an alcohol prohibition - straight after WW1, that went from 1914-1918, and the prohibition went from 1920-1933, very strange "co-incidence", wouldn't you agree?? As the German people, and the "newish" German Nation (the formerly separate German speaking states, uniting around 1870's) as they were then "surrounded" on all sides, with a formidable war on three fronts, the Western front, by far the most difficult, the Eastern front, basically the Russians, that they comprehensibly defeated, out-smarting & outfoxing the Russians with modern tactics and weapons, and the Southern front, somewhere near Serbia/Yugoslavia, which was initially held by the Austro-Hungarians, the Germans also sent troops there to secure that front, but it was the tragic losses in the Western front that was the most painful, for both sides, the Germans, French and British, all taking enormous losses, the Russians were quick-fodder, and "folded" after a couple of years, and went straight for the jugular of the Czar family, blaming the Russian embarrassment in WW1 on them, when it was the "lack of technology" and fighting morale among their troops, that capitulated their efforts, even the Russians "fighting elite", the Czars own personal bodyguards were used, which would have seemed like a terrible idea for the Czar, once the Russian Revolution started. Germany had been involved in a bitter, bloody struggle, a modern industrial war, with modern weapons, and they were literally surrounded by this "ENTENTE ALLIANCE" - they had lost several million fighting men, but no territory, and soon after the conclusion of the World War 1, the USA slaps a "prohibition" - that effectively "hurts & demoralizes" mainly German Beer Companies, which completely dominated the American market in those days, practically every company mentioned, was started by a German immigrant into the emerging United States. .............................................................................................WARNING TO AMERICANS OF GERMAN ORIGIN, THERE ARE "FJ" ISLAMIST'S INSIDE THE UNITED STATES, THEY ARE PARASITIC, THEY ARE BLOOD-SUCKERS, THEY ARE FERRET-FACES, AND THEY ARE DESPERATE TO FERRET YOU OUT, AND PUT THEMSELVES INTO YOUR BURROWS - FARMS, RANCHES, HOMES, ACREAGES, BUSINESSES, ENTERPRISES, ETC. - LOOK TO MAKE SOLID, LONG-LASTING RELATIONSHIPS WITH FELLOW EUROPEANS & LATIN AMERICANS, FIGHT NOT AGAINST THEM THIS TIME, INSTEAD FIGHTING WITH THEM, HOPEFULLY WITH DIPLOMATIC RESOLUTIONS, WITH POLITICALLY SAVVY REPS. BUT IF A "HOT-WAR" WERE TO ERUPT, I PERSONALLY THINK OF PAST TIMES, WHEN THE GERMAN "LANDSKNECHT" SOLDIERS - FOUGHT SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH THE SPANISH "TERCIOS" - THEY WERE INVINCIBLE. NEXT TIME ALL WESTERN EUROPEANS "FIGHT TOGETHER" IN A BLOC, WHERE THE ENEMY IS NOT YOUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, THE ENEMY IS OVERWHELMINGLY - "THE EASTMAL PARASITES" THEIR SHIT-HOUSE QUASI-RELIGION IS ALL ABOUT GENOCIDE, AND REPLACING WHITE EUROPEAN MEN - WITH EASTMAL. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[@ijustdidthistohavemusic2061]

First

[@marcmuench8451]

It's pronounced "Weedemann".

[@jonsmith6496]

Chic? NOPE! 👎

[@imustbecrazy5626]

With speech impediment.

[@Davion197]

ruined video!

[@jenniferlonnes7420]

Preferring to be unfashionable? Yep! Or you're too illiterate to know the difference between chick* and "chic".

[@markjackson6431]

why don’t you just watch on the weekends then. that’s when your man does the video. imagine men being obsessed with a man’s voice. kind of weird and hella sad

[@misterhat5823]

Very bottom comment.