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An Intoxicating Perspective

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Chicago Tribune

"Bob Skilnik thinks most historians have overlooked what a thirsty job it was being hog butcher to the world."

Chicago Sun-Times

"...the real Chicago story began with Prohibition, and this is where local author Skilnik shines."

Illinois Heritage Magazine

"Skilnik's book, quite skillfully, brings focus to the history of Chicago's beer production, distribution, retail sale, and consumption patterns."

The rise and fall of the Chicago brewing industry is played out in this fascinating book, which takes readers back to early Chicago and its neighborhood breweries and saloons to today’s biggest beer marketing battlefield. Here is a colorful and true tale that describes the opening of the first Chicago brewery, the Great Chicago Fire and the origins of Miller Lite.

The final days of the once popular Schlitz and Old Style brands are also covered, to contemporary Chicago, where one mistake can close a brewery.

From the Roaring Twenties and Al Capone, Prohibition and its mob-controlled breweries, and Jesse Jackson and the Anheuser-Busch boycott, this is the definitive book of the once powerful Chicago industry.

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Highlights of BEER: A History of Brewing in Chicago include:

•Famous lager beer riots

•Battles with Milwaukee’s breweries

•Al Capone, Prohibition, speakeasies, and the Chicago mob

•Beer and politics in Chicago

•Contemporary brewery casualties

•A detailed list of every Chicago brewery since 1833 with addresses and dates of operation

•A guided tour of still-standing local breweries and more!

Much more than a time line, this book is a heady, fun-to-read epic that offers a rich history of Chicago against the backdrop of its booming and ultimately doomed brewing industry. Filled with anecdotes and little-known facts, it's a treasure for history buffs, genealogists, Chicago fans, beer connoisseurs and collectors of breweriana.

About the Author
Bob Skilnik is an alumnus of Chicago’s Siebel Institute of Technology - the oldest school of brewing technology in the U.S. - where he earned a degree in brewing technology. He is the former associate editor for the American Breweriana Journal, a contributor to the Chicago Tribune’s Good Eating food section, trade journals, magazines and newspapers. He has appeared on ABC’s “The View,” the Fox News Channel, ESPN2, and Chicago’s WTTW.

BEER: A History of Brewing in Chicago is his fifth book.

Our Mission

Since 1999, Chicago Beer History has been providing research, lectures, tours and publications about the history of Chicagoland's breweries and saloons.

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