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LeBlanc got a barrel and a batch of supplies, stirred his mixture up with a paddle, added 12% ethyl alcohol as a preservative, ladled out his first brew with a coffee cup. "I took the first 14 bottles," he says solemnly, "and I was first-rate...
...uneven lot. His first guardian turns out to be a professional hijacker. Then Luc becomes a ward of the nation, speedily finds that the nation is not much interested in what happens to the sons of heroes. From the cold cup of state charity Luc turns to the warmer brew of Black-Marketeer Vanderputte, a kindly Fagin who harbors a nest of adolescent thieves as runners for his goods...
...arrested only occasionally on gambling and bootlegging charges. He took over the heavily Italian First Ward with its flophouse bums, indigents, and gandy-dancers, slowly began building back the lopsided majorities of Pendergast days. He took cuts on gambling, used his "influence" to sell Canadian Ace Beer, a brew produced by prosperous relicts of the old Capone syndicate in Chicago. He bought a handsome house in Kansas City's Country Club section, began to cultivate rosebushes and an air of respectability...
...very successful brewer. Son-in-law Adolphus, who combined a Teutonic genius for organization with the salesmanship of a pitchman, soon built up annual production to 25,000 barrels. In 1876, he got a new and better beer formula from a local restaurateur and called the new brew Budweiser...
Gussie Busch, who still refers to good beer as "the workingman's champagne," attributes much of Budweiser's success to its lengthy and more costly brewing process, in which it is fermented twice. Although the company has spent $64 million since Repeal to expand plants and boost production, Gussie Busch says it is still a race between the architect and the brew-master-and the brewmaster is in the lead...