History of brew

Here at Social Brew we feel that it is important not only to focus on the new beers and advances in the brewing field. But we also feel that we should focus on the past and what has brought us to where we are now.  In this post I am going to go though some of the history of brewing in America.  The oldest brewery in America is Yuengling brewing company it is established in Pottsville PA it was founded in 1829.  During prohibition they sold ice cream to help keep the brewery open.  The native Americans were the first ones to actually brew beer in America.  The difference between there brewing and the brewing of the Europeans are the native Americans didn't use barley.  Instead of using barley they used maize, birch sap, and water.  The earliest brewing by none native Americans dates back to 1587.  Quite a few of the early breweries shut down because of prohibition for quite a few breweries went into the soda business.  These are the oldest breweries in Wisconsin out of the 11 oldest still running breweries 5 are located in Wisconsin.

The list of the 5 breweries located in Wisconsin are coming in at

#10 leinikugals

#7 Point

#6 Miller

#4 Minhas

#3 Pabst  

To find the full list of oldest breweries go to https://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/the-oldest-breweries-in-america

also for additional reading in the history of brewing in America I recommend going to http://www.beerhistory.com/library/holdings/chronology.shtml