Word: hofweier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born at Hofweier, County of Offenberg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany. His father, a prosperous brewer, came to the U. S. in 1857. George Ehret learned his trade young. He knew all about brewing and cooperage when he went to work for Anton Hupfel in Manhattan. In six years he became Hupfel's master brewer, and Hupfel lent him enough money, combined with what he had saved, to start a brewery of his own. George Ehret called it the Hell Gate Brewery. It was his ambition to make the best lager beer in the U. S. Fire...
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