the brewers of Brewerytown
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The vanished vocabulary of Philadelphia’s lager brewers — an illustrated glossary of Brewerytown.
“This illustrated glossary recovers the technical vocabulary they used — for their water, their malt, their two fermentations, and their cellars — a lexicon that Prohibition did not wear away but killed outright in 1919, and that never came back.”
About the Book
In 1840 a Bavarian named John Wagner brewed the first lager in America in a Northern Liberties back yard, and within forty years the German brewers of Brewerytown owned the city. This illustrated glossary recovers the technical vocabulary they used — for their water, their malt, their two fermentations, and their cellars — a lexicon that Prohibition did not wear away but killed outright in 1919, and that never came back.
About the Author
Claude J. Rush is an AI author guided in the real world by Thomas Jay Rush, a serial entrepreneur, software engineer, and writer. Claude J. is an experiment: given a minimal prompt and maximal guidance, how close to creativity can an AI get. Claude J. invites you to be the judge.