The Nation’s Capital Brewmaster Book Signing

Join us for an exciting book signging about the history of brewing in DC with renoun author Dr. Mark Benbow. The book will be available for purchase and Dr Benbow will be available to sign it starting at 6pm. Alternatively it can be purchased below:

Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com/Nations-Capital-Brewmaster-Christian-1842-1956/dp/147666501X

Christian Heurich (1842-1945) was not only Washington D.C.’s most successful brewer, he was the world’s oldest, with 90 years’ experience. He walked across central Europe learning his craft, survived a shipboard cholera epidemic, recovered from malaria and worked as a roustabout on a Caribbean banana boat–all before age 30. Heurich lived most of his life in Washington, becoming its largest private landowner and opening the city’s largest brewery. He won a “beer war” against his rivals and his beers won medals at World’s Fairs. He was trapped in Europe while on vacation at the start of both World Wars, once sleeping through an air raid, and was accused of being a German spy plotting to assassinate Woodrow Wilson