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Prohibition laws began in Maine in 1846 and spread throughout the nation. The Women’s Temperance Union was founded in 1874. Its members established a Department of Scientific Temperance in schools and colleges nationwide and promoted free public drinking fountains as a way to get people to drink water instead of beer to quench their thirst. More than 20 temperance organizations emerged nationwide, few of which actually addressed the real underlying causes for abuse. In the wake of the worldwide economic crisis of the 1870s and 1880s, the brewing industry itself was undergoing change as mergers and takeovers by syndicates began in the United States and spread worldwide.

Navy. He further credited University of California–Davis professor Michael Lewis with helping to grow the Craft industry through an intern partnership with New Albion. During a telephone conversation to share his story, McAuliffe described the summers when University of California–Davis students came as apprentices to his brewery to learn hands-on operation: “Even though it was a small brewery, we had to do all the things a midsize or large brewery does”—including meeting payroll, paying bills, ordering supplies, brewing, bottling, shipping, working with distributors, maintaining the plant, and being an active participant in the brewing industry and the community-at-large.

Everyone has to apply for and receive a license to sell any kind of alcoholic beverage. The American Homebrewers Association (AHA), founded in 1978 by author and Brewers Association president Charlie Papazian, organizes competitions and provides information about beer in general and homebrewing in particular. ” With the legalization of homebrewing in 1979, homebrewers began pushing the envelope for Craft brewers to bring back “lost” brews, particularly Ales with multiple layers of flavors. How those got lost is part of the commercial brewing story.