From: clough@texas.net   
      
   OOREROOM wrote:   
   > I posted a query about beer making methods in the old west and   
   > since have found out more.  In Montana, until the trains came in   
   > the 1880s, Blue Spruce tips were used for "bittering".  Most   
   > saloons made their own beer.  My wifes third greatgrandfather   
   > was a freighter and owned saloons in Glendive, Helena, Bozeman,   
   > Livingston and Cinnabar.  He also made whiskey.  Does anyone   
   > here have information or know of any books or web pages that   
   > have information about the manufacturing and distribution of beer   
   > and/or other beverages, they would share with me?   
   > Robert   
      
   I figured to go to Kansas as typical of the old west at its frontier   
   best. And I found this link. Beer brewing - the fourth largest industry   
   in Kansas in 1860:   
      
   http://www.freestatebrewing.com/FSBHistory.html   
      
   And for Texas, about beverages in general - from the ever-reliable Texas   
     Handbook Online:   
      
   http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/DD/lgd1.html   
      
      
      
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