Brewery

So anyways, that was really good.

And then I just want to mention real quickly, I sat at Bartend at Beer Brewery.

So I was there this past weekend.

We had our Oktoberfest.

So I met with him down at that right as that opened and had a conversation.

And I kind of just I think we just kind of lost touch.

I actually did see him over at beer at beer brewery.

I play in this really cool fantasy football league.

The Truman show? Yeah.

Truman's Breweries? Truman's

Show, probably.

Yeah, no, Truman's Breweries.

Because, yeah, in Brick Lane, or near Brick Lane, they've got that big, tall chimney thing, and there's Truman written on it.

I was like, ha, ha, ha, that's me.

Along the way, he had discovered that a cave system that webbed underneath the very ground of St. Louis provided the perfect temperature for aging the perfect lager.

And every year, the Lemp's Western Brewery Company grew bigger and bigger.

By the 1850s, it was one of the biggest breweries in the city.

By 1858, Johan's Beer had won first place in the St. Louis annual fair and business was booming.

Her now ex-husband had no idea that his incredibly scandalous divorce came at a point in time where he had already unknowingly lost control of his destiny.

In 1906, nine other large breweries in St. Louis banded together to form one corporation.

Lemp Brewery was not included in that coalition and so now they found themselves faced with a competition the likes of which they had never seen before.

That very same year, William's mother, a possible source of reason and someone who could have spoken up against his upcoming divorce, had died from cancer and things were only about to get worse.

I know that the place that you occupy was once occupied by another brewery.

Correct.

Yep, Arcos Brewery was there from 2011 through when we took possession of the equipment and the building in June of 2025, so a little over a year ago took possession.

Okay.

So they were in there for about 14 years, and I knew Steven very well.

Yeah

... um, in other countries, uh, uh, like, uh, my, my dad was at the 300th birthday of Shepherd Neame Brewery in the UK.

And when, um, when, when he was at the brewery, there was two amusing things.

One, uh, Prince Charles was invited to officiate, and he said that he understood it was the first time a member of the royal family-

... presented a lot of challenges for everybody.

Um-

Uh, can you ask Dean if this tastes nice? The Garden Brewery Milkshake IPA, before I'm forced to buy it to see for myself.

[laughs] Okay.

Yes, we do.

You worked for Labatt's Breweries and then Lakeport, and you were in the business as well.

But before working in beer, you spent 20 years.

I did a reverse.