Leinenkugel's Celebrates 130 Years of Growth With the continued growth of craft brewing in North America, more and more cities can take pride in local craft breweries. The craft breweries are new, ranging in age from mere months to fifteen years. A century ago, before the post-Prohibition consolidation of the brewing industry, many cities had their own breweries‹indeed, even some of the smallest towns had three or four breweries. For 130 years Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, has been the proud home of the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company. The brewery was born in 1867, in a booming Western Wisconsin lumbering town just after the Civil War. Unlike most breweries of that era, Leinenkugel's has survived Prohibition, two World Wars, the consolidation and blandification of the brewing industry, strict federal and state regulation and taxation of alcohol-containing beverages, and by all appearances, a merger with the world's second largest industrial brewer. Continued Syracuse Brewer Keeps Focus on Real Ale "I think it's beer in its best form," Rubenstein said. "It's fuller in body, fuller in flavor, especially if it's consumed at its correct temperature." And Rubenstein is a stickler for the correct temperature. He is, in fact, a stickler for all that's "real" in real ale. "If you're going to serve real, cask-conditioned ale, why do it halfway?" Rubenstein said. "It can be a pain in the neck for a brewer. But if you're not going to do it right, what's the point." Continued

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