"The Nation's Capital Brewmaster" by Mark Benbow Sales once sleeping through an air

once sleeping through an air raid

he was the world's oldest

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"The Nation's Capital Brewmaster" by Mark Benbow Sales once sleeping through an airChristian Heurich (1842 1945) was not only Washington D. C.'s most successful brewer, he was the world's oldest, with 90 years' experience. He walked across central Europe learning his craft, survived a shipboard cholera epidemic, recovered from malaria and worked as a roustabout on a Caribbean banana boat all before age 30. Heurich lived most of his life in Washington, becoming its largest private landowner and opening the city's largest brewery. He