The Miller Beer Barons: The Frederick Miller Family and Its Brewery
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (515 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1932542167 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 456 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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president. Tim John's mother was a direct descendent of brewing company founder Frederick Miller. John operates Blue Mound Graphics in Milwaukee, a firm started by his father. . Tim John is the son of Harry John, who served as Miller Brewing Co
Miller came to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from Germany 150 years ago and started a small brewery that would evolve into one of the world’s largest. A member of the Miller family, John introduces readers to quirky and controversial family members like Emil Miller, who smashed beer bottles of competitors with his cane when he discovered them at taverns, or John’s own father, Harry, who served a brief, but stormy, tenure as company president. "The Miller Beer Barons" arrives just in time to commemorate Miller’s 150th anniversry in 2005.. In The Miller Beer Barons, author Tim John tells the complete story of the family that built a beer empire from the entrepreneu
Tim John's mother was a direct descendent of brewing company founder Frederick Miller. president. About the Author Tim John is the son of Harry John, who served as Miller Brewing Co. John operates Blue Mound Graphics in Milwaukee, a firm started by his father.
A trans-generational tour of wealth, power, and their sometimes rocky transitions The Miller Beer Barons: The Frederick J. Miller Family And Its Brewery is the true and fascinating story of the Miller family, which started and ran the Miller Brewing Company for over one hundred years. Stretching from late 1800's Germany, when Mr. Miller brewed his first beer, to 1970, when Harry G. John Jr.'s sale of Miller stock was the end of the family's involvement with the company, The Miller Beer Barons is a trans-generational tour of wealth, power, and their sometimes rocky transitions. An inset section of black-and-white photographic plates nicely rounds out this exhaustively researched, meticulously detailed, hig. pjbialas said Learn the stories behind the stories in Miller history!. Tim John does a fantastic job of unearthing awesome Miller Brewing facts and stories that would have otherwise been lost in time. For an inside look at one if the largest breweries in the world this book is a must buy!. Amazon Customer said Good read. With abundant anecdotes and historical perspective, this book offers a detailed and lively history of one of the brewing industry's first families.