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...Romans found beer in the farthest reaches of their empire. But in modern days, not even an Englishman could like the ancients' sweet, flat brews. Actually, the first true dry beer came to the U.S. with immigrant Germans in the 1840s. In German fermentation tanks the yeast worked at the bottom of the brew rather than at the top, as in ale, thus producing the lighter, less alcoholic "lager," i.e., "stored" beer, that has become the U.S. favorite...
From start to finish, the brew, made in relatively small 630-bbl. batches, is constantly checked for taste and uniformity. As the ground-up barley and rice are boiled, the hops and yeast are added to ferment the beer and give it its characteristic, slightly bitter tang. Both temperature and time must be controlled to the minute. The immense lagering cellars, where the fermentation goes on for 21 days, must be airtight to keep out all airborne bacteria. Finally, Anheuser-Busch treats its beer with a time-honored process that no other major national brewer uses. In glass-lined tanks...
While Gussie scrubbed vats, his father tried to hold the company together and fought for survival and repeal. Anheuser-Busch turned from beer to a variety of other products: yeast, refrigeration cabinets, bus and truck bodies, corn and malt syrup, and a variety of soft drinks, including a chocolate soft drink named Carcho. The losses were staggering. Nevertheless, the company stayed in business. Young Gussie used the time to climb through the ranks. By 1924 he was brewery superintendent; in 1926 he was named general manager and sixth vice president; eight years later, when Prohibition was finally repealed...
...inner rhythm that never fails." says Director Erwin Piscator; and Lewis speaks of "a natural dangerousness and unpredictability that's always exciting in the theater"All these qualities, his friends say, are symptoms of an almost frighteningly susceptible nature. "He's like a glob of the yeast of creation," says one. He picked up a working knowledge of French and Spanish in a matter of days. He can imitate someone precisely after watching him for two minutes. He almost never answers the phone in his own voice, usually convinces the caller that he is someone else. His sense...
Died. Edwin M. Fleischmann, 61, millionaire Maryland distiller (distant kin of the late gin and yeast heir Max Fleischmann), who in 1933 founded the Calvert Distilling Co., which later became part of Distillers Corporation-Seagrams; of cancer; in Baltimore...