A BEER KING.

Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2649, 24 November 1919, Page 7

A BEER KING.

The great centre of lager-beer manufacture is on the western shore of Lake Michigan. Milwaukee is lager, and lager is Milwaukee, for the gigantic brewery which grew up under the genius of Frederick Pabst, a German emigrant, dominates the city.

There is in addition to the brewery a Pabst theatre, where German plays and operas are given, a Pabst hotel, and a Pabst pleasure resort. Pabst in early life was on the lake steamer service, and married the daughter of a brewer who put 300 barrels on the market in his first year, and in twenty years increased the quantity to 5,000 barrels. Then Pabst "butted in," and in eight years the barrel mark was 100,000 and thence rose steadily until 1,000,000 barrels of lager were turned out per annum. Pabst beer was sent all over the world, and there is a story that a famous Arctic explorer once got as near the pole as any man had done up to that time, and there found an empty Pabst bottle.