By: Billy BeerSlugger There is a common theme among our Fathers of American Beer so far and Joseph Schlitz is not likely to stray from that theme too much. Schlitz was a native of Mainz, Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1850 settling in Milwaukee.  Schlitz was hired as a bookkeeper  by August [...]

By: Billy BeerSlugger Frederick Pabst was a German born brewer and founder of Pabst Brewing Company.  In 1848 he emigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago.  He spent a portion of his youth as a hotel waiter and then a cabin boy on a Lake Michigan Steamer.  Later he became Capitan of one [...]

By: Billy BeerSlugger While two or so of our writers are putting the finishing touches on the final entries in to the Greatest Athlete of All Time Debate, I decided the next series I would focus on would be the Brewers that put American beer on the map.  Men like Adolphus Busch, Frederick Pabst, Frederick [...]