Beer Stories

Lincoln's bucket of beer; the Rhine River Beer Bridge; George Washington's craft brew; German immigrants' lager; beer can history; malt syrup pancakes; growlers; Norm from Cheers

Brenda Elthon

Lincoln in the War Department telegraph office.

1. Lincoln’s bucket of beer.

Saturday, July 4, 1863, may have been the best day of Lincoln’s presidency.

At 10:00 that morning, Confederate forces ceded the city of Vicksburg to General Ulysses S. Grant, ending his forty-seven-day siege of the vital Confederate river and rail transportation hub.