New Beer From an Old Brewery

America is dotted with the corpses of old breweries. You might have passed them while driving through some forgotten inner-city neighborhood: brick-and- morter behemoths, four to five stories high, sometimes with gaps in the wall where copper brewkettles and other objects of value were extracted.

In neighborhoods like Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhein, Philadelphia's Brewerytown, Baltimore's Brewers Hill and Boston's Roxbury and Jamaica Plains, these early lager plants were once part of the city's economic backbone.