"The Nation's Capital Brewmaster" by Mark Benbow Sales where publicly teetotaling congressmen could

where publicly teetotaling congressmen could get a stiff drink behind House office doors and the African American community of U Street was humming with a new sound called jazz

He won a "beer war" against his rivals and his beers won medals at World's Fairs

he was the world's oldest

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"The Nation's Capital Brewmaster" by Mark Benbow Sales where publicly teetotaling congressmen couldChristian Heurich (1842 1945) was not only Washington D. C.'s most successful brewer, he was the world's oldest, with 90 years' experience. He walked across central Europe learning his craft, survived a shipboard cholera epidemic, recovered from malaria and worked as a roustabout on a Caribbean banana boat all before age 30. Heurich lived most of his life in Washington, becoming its largest private landowner and opening the city's largest brewery. He