10 THINGS ABOUT HAFFENREFFER AND NEW ENGLAND BEER
From Crafty Bastards: Beer in New England from the Mayflower to Modern Day
by Lauren Clark (Union Park Press)
10. During its 100 years in the business, the Haffenreffer family were the most successful brewers in New England. They owned not only the Haffenreffer Brewery in Boston but the Old Colony Brewery in Fall River and the Narragansett Brewery in Cranston, Rhode Island.
9. The first lager beer – as opposed to ale – in Boston was brewed by German immigrants who settled in Jamaica Plain and Roxbury because of the purity of the Stonybrook Aquifer.
8. There were 24 breweries operating in JP and Roxbury in the late 1800s.
7. By 1900, Boston had the most breweries per capita of any American city.
6. Before he started the Haffenreffer Brewery in 1870, Rudolph Haffenreffer worked for the first-generation lager brewer Gottlieb Burkhardt. Haffenreffer even married Burkhardt’s niece, Catherine.
5. New England was once a hops-growing powerhouse. It exported hops to other states and to Europe. AND it was New Englanders who first planted hops in today’s primary growing region, the Pacific Northwest.
4. Rudolph Haffenreffer’s oldest son, Rudolph Jr, studied chemistry at the Boston Institute of Technology, which would later move to Cambridge and become MIT.
3. In the 1940s and 50s, Narragansett’s promotional artwork was done by Theodore Geisel – BEFORE he became better known as Dr. Seuss.
2. In 1955, the Haffenreffer family-owned Narragansett brewery had a 65% share of the New England beer market.
1. Because of its potency, Haffenreffer Private Stock Malt Liquor was nicknamed Green Death and Haffen-wrecker.
No comments:
Post a Comment