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In1612America’sfirst
commercialbrewery
opensinNew
Amsterdam(later
NewYork)

Pilgrims’ Progress 1620 Space Hops 1992
Carrying pilgrims to settle in North America, the captain of the Taking advantage of the Space Shuttle
Mayflower stops at Plymouth Rock in order to disembark his Discovery mission, astronaut Bill Readdy takes
passengers early and reserve the remaining stocks of beer for his a bag of Cascades hops with him to circle
crew. Beer, albeit a much weaker form at this time, was drunk by Image source: wiki/Christie’s the globe 128 times. The hops are then given Image source: wiki/NASA
all on board as it was safer than water, but it was running low. to Spinnakers Brewpub in Victoria, British
Columbia, to make a new beer.

Image source: wiki/Library of Congress PRESIDENTIAL BREW 1757 © Getty Images PROHIBITION BEGINS 1920 Image source: wiki/James Crookall THE FLOATING BREWERY 1944
The Eighteenth Amendment to the
In the hope of offering freshly brewed
George Washington notes down
United States Constitution comes
beer to Allied troops in the Pacific,
his recipe for a homebrewed beer,
into effect, banning the sale and
HMS Menestheus is retrofitted with
a copy of which is kept at the New
import of alcoholic beverages in
an onboard brewery. The rebuild isn’t
York Public Library today. The
the country.
‘small’ beer recipe was commonly
completed until after the war has
brewed in the military of the era.
1620 1757 1810 1920 ended, however.
9,000-YEAR LEASE 1759 PASTEURISATION 1876 PROHIBITION ENDS 1933
Arthur Guinness signs his Louis Pasteur develops a After 13 years the restriction on
famous 9,000 year lease for method for preventing wine the sale of beer is lifted. From an
the land on which he builds the from souring, which becomes Image source: Wellcome Images original 1,400 breweries in the
first Guinness brewery in Dublin, known as pasteurisation. The United States before prohibition,
© Alamy Ireland. The company has since methodology is expanded to only 160 remain to pick up their © Getty Images
business again.
beer production.
bought the land.
Train Beers

Oktoberfest 1810
The famous German beer 1878
festival begins in Munich as The Anheuser-Busch
an event with horse racing brewing company
to celebrate the marriage develops a fleet of double-
Imagesource:wiki/MunichDigitiZationCenter Hildburghausen. The event Anestimated120,000 across the United States
walled refrigerated freight
of Crown Prince Ludwig to
cars to transport beer
Princess Therese of Saxe-
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faster than ever. This
is repeated the next year
new innovation helps
and starts to expand, with
to establish its beer,
each subsequent festival
litresofbeerwere
featuring new attractions.
consumedatthe
brand in America.
100thOktoberfest
in1910 © Alamy Budweiser, as a national
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