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1. Czech Republic 2. 45-54 year olds 3. Milk, soda pop, and coffee 4. The cans cost more 5. About 20 times

6. Water, hops, yeast, malts 7. Pennsylvania 8. Molson brewery, est. 1786 9. 1852

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BUDWEISER CLYDESDALES • When Adolphus Busch married Lilly AnheusDEERE. erDEERE. in 1861,JOHN he married into(continued): a family-owned • brewery. It was while living in Illinois John noHe jumped into the that business. His ticed the problems that faced when suggestions turned the St.farmers Louis factory into a attempting to till soil. Because the area had showplace. formerly been woodland, the soil was rich • When he discovered a new recipe for beer with hummus, which clumped and clung to which involved the were brew accustwice, the blades of thefermenting plows farmers hetomed bought the rights and named athe new beer to using. While repairing broken cirafter the Czech town where he discovered cular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. He the recipe: Budweis. Aftertostudying work employed his smith skills fashion the the steel ofblade Louisinto Pasteur, Adolphus became the first the shape of a plow. He affixed totwo pasteurize beer, which allowed it to be wooden spokes, then hitched the device shipped without loss ofthe quality. to a horse. It plowed heavy Illinois soil like a he charm. a farmer who happened • When died In in fact, 1913, his brewery was one to be observing the test run immediately put of the foremost in the country. His son August in an order for his own John Deere plow. Busch took over, but then disaster struck: Pro• hibition. In short For order, Deere up his blacksmith years the gave brewery hung in there, shop andbyfocused The squeaking on salesonof making yeast andplows. a nonalcocompany grew steadily and added many emholic beverage. ployees. In the late 1840s, John relocated the • When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, a celentire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed ebration was called for. August’s son (August of his own lack of education, John sent his Jr.) had recently purchased a team of magnifichildren to the state’s finest schools. One of cant Clydesdales a gift for hisson father, and his proudest daysas occurred when Charles they garnered so muchofattention that August earned the equivalent an MBA from Bell’s Sr. knew he could spin a major media specCommercial College in Chicago. tacle out of them. • With his son Charles managing the company, • He hadfound a gleaming wagon and six magJohn time tobeer pursue philanthropic innificent Clydesdale horses delivered St. terests. He co-founded both the First from NationLouis to New York where they Church. paraded al Bank and the FirstCity Congregational upHeFifth with 10,000 peopleinfollowwas Avenue elected the mayor of Moline 1873, ing. At the very moment Prohibition was where one of his first actions – the replacerepealed, employees handed legalabeer ment of the city’s open drainsa with sewerto pipe system saved who countless lives by reducGovernor Al –Smith, had constantly lobing the spread of disease. bied for repeal of Prohibition. The brewery of free fromregistered this specta• got Thepages original Johnpublicity Deere logo, in cle, and has been associated with Clydesdales 1876, depicted a deer that was native to Afriever since. ca. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, it was replaced with the image of a North American • Anheuser-Busch is the largest brewing comwhite-tailed deer. In the decades that pany in the U.S., providing about half offolall lowed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took beer consumed in the country. over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.

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