Breweries of Cleveland (Locally Brewed)

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Written by local writer Carl H. Miller, BREWERIES OF CLEVELAND is a comprehensive and nostalgic journey through Cleveland’s beery past, beginning with a discussion of the city’s very earliest breweries and tracing the local industry through to the current “rebirth” lead by area microbreweries.

“Cleveland has at all times been a beer town,” says Miller. “Before prohibition, virtually each neighborhood in the city had its own brewery — especially on the West Side, where the Germans lived.” Indeed, on the close of the nineteenth century, Cleveland boasted nearly twenty breweries, all serving a primarily local market.

After the repeal of National Prohibition (1920-1933), nine local breweries reopened, but fierce competition from the nation’s large brewers soon threatened the survival of regional beer-makers in every single place. In line with Miller, “The small, local brewer was once an endangered species by the end of the 1950s. Clevelanders still had a fondness for their local beers, but strong competition from the big brewers made it difficult for the ‘little guys’ to keep their heads above water.”

However, all through the 1980s, brewpubs and microbreweries started springing up around the country, giving rise to a sort of rebirth of brewing on a regional basis. “In a sense, the brewing industry has come full circle,” says Miller. “Cleveland’s nineteenth century brewers were all very geared toward serving a strictly local market. The new microbrewers have that same roughly commitment to preserving their local character.”

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