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Vitamin B for Victory: How Beer Helped Win WWII

  • Aeronaut Brewing Co. 14 Tyler Street Somerville, MA, 02143 United States (map)

During World War One, the U.S. government did everything it could to discourage beer drinking among the Doughboys.  A generation later, Washington shifted course entirely, going out of its way to make beer accessible to soldiers and sailors on all the fighting fronts of WWII.  The consequences would shape American drinking habits down to the present day.  In this special presentation in honor of Veterans Day, we will follow the course of American beers from the Solomons to Bastogne, as the Greatest Generation marched towards victory with Lagers in hand.

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