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Join Meredith, Emily, and Frank as they discuss corporate espionage in the 19th brewing, the glass drinkware revolution, how Guinness used a pickaxe to protect his beer empire, and some of the largest industrial accidents of the Victorian era.
Links and Additional Content:
Official Website for the Munich Beer Festival
The Man Who Invented Beer: All About Guinness
The London Beer Flood via Atlas Obscura
The London Beer Flood of 1814 via Historic UK
A Sticky Tragedy: The Boston Molasses Disaster via History Today
“Nearly a century later, structural flaw in molasses tank revealed” via The Boston Globe
The Oxford Companion to Beer by Garrett Oliver (editor). See the chapter on Sedlmayr, Gabriel the Younger