July is National Beer Month

Lancaster, PA was known as the Munich of the New World in the 19th century when 7 % of all beer brewed in the US came from Lancaster. "The fame of our beer has spread over the whole Union, " wrote the Daily Intelligencer Journal in 1868. WWI and Prohibition began the decline of Lancaster county breweries. Wacker Eagle, closed operation in 1956 and no beer was being brewed in Lancaster until Lancaster Malt Brewing opened in 1995. Lancaster Malt is now known as Lancaster Brewing Company. Also in Lancaster County was Bube's Brewery in Mt. Joy. Bube's is an historic nineteenth-century brewery complex. In addition to being a museum, the complex now contains three restaurants, a banquet facility, outdoor biergarten, art gallery, and brewery store. The brewery was built by Alois Bube, a German immigrant, during Lancaster County's heyday as the "Munich of the New World" prior to Prohibition. Today, Bube's Brewery is the only brewery from the 1800's surviving intact in the United States.

Enjoy some history with your brews this July!!!