Vintage PRE-PROHIBITION BEER BOTTLE OPENER 'MICHEL BREW CORP. BROOKLYN, NY

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Up for bids....Up for bids.... PRE-PROHIBITION BEER BOTTLE OPENER 'MICHEL BREW CORP. BROOKLYN, NY Condiiton: Some surface rust on this very old opener but all letters are readable. A must for any collection. This a very rare opener. MI CHEL THE BEER WITH THE GOLDEN BREWMICHEL BREW CORP BROOKLYN NY A forgotten brewery from Brooklyn’s yesteryear is the Leonhard Michel Brewing Co., which was located in Gowanus. The tale of Leonhard Michel comprises war beers, lawsuits against Yuengling, and the Ebling beer caves. Leonhard Michel started out as the brewmaster at the David G. Yuengling, Jr. brewery in Manhattan. This was a production plant owned by the Yuengling brewery in Pennsylvania.Michel worked at Yuengling until 1889 when he left to found the India Wharf Brewery on Hamilton Avenue in Brooklyn. After seventeen years at India Wharf, Michel opened a new plant on Bond Street in 1907. This plant was to be his crowning achievement. “The plant was worth waiting for though: It was seven stories high, solidly constructed of traditional brewery brick and stone, had direct frontage on the Gowanus Canal, and contained the largest ice plant in Brooklyn! Capacity was 150,000 barrels a year.”The new plant was never to achieve its promise. In 1919 the Volstead Act passed, thus making beer illegal to produce. At the beginning of Prohibition, read more

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