Brewers

Currently I am reading Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent. I have learned some interesting things about some of the anti-prohibitionists, yep, you guessed it, the beer brewers. But look at the things I have found out about names I have heard for decades:

pg. 31, "The most forceful advocate of the brewers' anti-Prohibition campaign was the most accomplished man in the industry, Adolphus Busch. The youngest of twenty-one children of a prosperous Rhineland merchant . . . in 1861 at twenty-two, married Lilly Anheuser, the daughter of one of his customer. . . Busch was a genuine visionary. Where others saw brewing as a fairly straightforward business, he saw it as the core of a vertically integrated series of businesses. He built glass factories and ice plants. He acquired railway companies to ferry coal from mines he owned in Illinois . . .got into the business of manufacturing refrigerated rail cars . . . He paid one million dollars for exclusive U.S. to a novel engine technology developed by his countryman Rudolf Diesel . . .

Pg. 32, "In 1875 Busch produced thirty-five thousand barrels of beer; by 1901 his annual output - primarily of a light lager named for the Bohemian town of Budweis - surpassed a million barrels."