"The Nation's Capital Brewmaster" by Mark Benbow Sales He won a "beer war"

He won a "beer war" against his rivals and his beers won medals at World's Fairs

he was the world's oldest

once sleeping through an air raid

and international speaker on public memory and museum management

"The Nation's Capital Brewmaster" by Mark Benbow Sales He won a "beer war"Christian Heurich (1842 1945) was not only Washington D. C.'s most successful brewer, he was the world's oldest, with 90 years' experience. He walked across central Europe learning his craft, survived a shipboard cholera epidemic, recovered from malaria and worked as a roustabout on a Caribbean banana boat all before age 30. Heurich lived most of his life in Washington, becoming its largest private landowner and opening the city's largest brewery. He