The Nation's Capital Brewmaster: Christian Heurich and His Brewery, 1842-1956
The Nation's Capital Brewmaster: Christian Heurich and His Brewery, 1842-1956
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About the Author Mark Elliott Benbow is an assistant professor of American History at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia.
A notably odd episode: when they began to tear down his old brewery to build the Kennedy Center, the wrecking ball bounced off the walls. He walked across central Europe learning his craft, survived a shipboard cholera epidemic, recovered from malaria and worked as a roustabout on a Caribbean banana boat--all before age 30. Heurich lived most of his life in Washington, becoming its largest private landowner and opening the city's largest brewery. Drawing on family papers and photos, the author chronicles Heurich's life and the evolving beer industry before and after Prohibition.. Christian Heurich (1842-1945) was not only Washington D.C.'s most successful brewer, he was the world's oldest, with 90 years' experience. He was trapped in Europe while on vacation at the start of both World Wars, once sleeping through an air raid, and was accused of being a German spy plotting to assassinate Woodrow
. Mark Elliott Benbow is an assistant professor of American History at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia