From Eastside Lager to Maier's Select Malt Tonic: A Brief History of LA Beer

28.07.11

At first, the brewery's walls surrounded the expanding tree, but in the 1890s good business spelled a bad fate for El Aliso, which was felled and sold for lumber to perceive room for an expanded brewery facility. Their style of brew, which fermented at colder temperatures using a unconventional type of yeast, was a relatively new arrival in North America, where beer drinkers were accustomed to ales brewed at area temperature in the British tradition. In 1882, two German immigrants named Joseph Maier and George Zobelein purchased the Philadelphia Stout House, renaming it Maier & Zobelein. 's first brewery, the Philadelphia Brew House, opened in 1874 niggardly the present-day site of Union Station. for hundreds of years, Tongva (Gabrieleño) tribal leaders gathered under the intimation of an ancient sycamore tree&mdash. brewers were part of a wave of German entrepreneurs, including the now-familiar names of Adolphus Busch and Frederick Miller, who began making a in consideration of, pilsener-style lager throughout the U. S. in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Source: KCET