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late 1850s
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Peter Schwitzgebel starts
a brewery at the corner of 3rd & Oak,
calling it the Kansas City Brewery. by 1860,
offering lager, ale and porter.
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1860
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the city directories list
26 saloons, growing to 101 in the next ten years. By
the turn of the century, there are 225 in the river
bottoms alone.
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1869
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Kansas City Brewery changes
its name to Third Street Brewery
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1869
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George & John Muehlbach
acquire the Main Street Brewery at 18th
& Main
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1869
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Kumpf establishes Star
Ale Brewery, and begin brewing ale and porter
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1871
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Kumpf changes the name
back to Kansas City Brewery in.
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1873
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Star Ale Brewery
becomes F.H. Kump Brewery (without the "f")
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1881
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Kansas adopts statewide
prohibition.
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1882
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Peter Schwitzgebel dies.
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1884
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Kumpf sells Kansas City’s
largest brewery, now doing 12,000 barrels a year, to
Ferdinand Heim
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1887
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Heims builds a new brewery
in the west bottoms and renames it the Bavarian Brewing
Company in 1890.
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1898 - 1900
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Weiss Beer Brewery opens
— operated by Leo Thoma and Brewer. In 1900 the
partnership is dissolved and Thoma continues operating
alone
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1899
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Heim opens the Electric
Park lit with 100,000 light bulbs and adjacent to the
brewery and so beer could be piped down to the park's
huge beer garden.
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1905
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Heim merges with Rochester
Brewing company becoming the Kansas City Breweries
Company.
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1918
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Prohibition known as the
"great experiment" is signed into law as the 18th
Amendment.
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1919
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Post prohibition Weiss
Beer Brewery begins operating as a Bottling company
for carbonated beverages under the name Thoma Bottling
Works — never to brew beer again
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1919
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Heim Brewery closes its
doors.
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1933
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In April, congress repeals
the 18th amendment — also known as "new beer’s
day." That night, America consumes one million
barrels of beer.
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1933
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Imperial Brewing Co.
of 122 Southwest Boulevard, begins production. Initially
offering beer only in kegs, it soon adds a bottling
department. Brand names include: Imperial and Imperial
Pale (ale). The brewery is sold in 1938 to the Griesedieck
Bros. Brewing Co. of St. Louis.
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1938
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Muehlebach attempts to
recover from Prohibition and opens a new brewery in
the City Market.
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1950s
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The TV and the dawn of
advertising changes the strategy of beer sales.
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1950
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Edward T. Sullivan, grandfather
of Bob Sullivan Jr., moved his Falstaff beer distributorship,
Sullivan Beverage Company, into Thoma’s building
at 1308 West 28th Street
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1956
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Muehlebach Brewery is sold
to Schlitz.
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1973
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The Kansas City Schlitz
Brewery closes and moves to Memphis
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1983
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Number of breweries in
the nation dwindles — 6 breweries account for 90%
of the nation's beer.
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1989
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Boulevard Brewery is founded
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1995
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Pony Express Brewery is
founded
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