The blog will be about some beer history of Philadelphia. Gerstensaft is a German word that means beer. The literal translation is; Gersten = barley and -saft = juice.
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Bergner & Engel Bock Beer, Root Beer and building fire.
The Bock Beer ad is from the 1890s. During Prohibition B&E leased a part of their brewery to the Primalt Products Company of Chicago to produce Dr. Swett's Root Beer. The article about the fire is from 1938. The brewery closed and was abandoned in 1928.
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