Even more crucial to our brewing backstory are a handful of entrepreneurial Germans from the Midwest -- Industrial Age go-getters who helped wean much of the U.S. off cider and whiskey. In Milwaukee, Jacob Best and his sons founded the Best and Company brewery in 1844. One son, Phillip, later left the brewery to his son-in-law Frederick Pabst, who preferred his own name be slapped on kegs, bottles and cans.
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