Twenty-Five Years of Brewing
Twenty-five years of brewing, with an illustrated history of American beer, dedicated to the friends of George Ehret
Ah, that glorious golden refreshment—beer! This book was published in 1891 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Hell Gate Brewery. George Ehret, a German immigrant, established the brewery on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 1866 to make a Munich-style lager. He went on to become an enormous success, one of America's great beer barons of the late 19th century. This interesting and highly illustrated book not only tells Ehret’s story, but also provides an overview of American brewing beginning in 1635. And in case you were wondering, the name "Hell Gate" has nothing to do with demons or with Mr. Ehret’s temperament. It was named after a particularly treacherous pass in the East River near the site of the brewery. Books like this are useful to curators at the National Museum of American History for the study of American business and food history.
This late 19th-century publisher's binding has blind and gold stamping on the cover and decorative endpapers. The case is detaching from the textblock, and the sewing is failing. Conservators will remove the textblock from the case. The case will be repaired and the textblock resewn. The decorative endpapers will be retained. The resewn textblock will then be recased into the repaired cover.
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