''Reisch Beer'', Reisch Brewing Co was a
brewery
A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of be ...
established in the city of
Springfield, Illinois
Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh most-populous city, the second largest o ...
by Franz Sales Reisch in 1849. The Reisch brewery operated until 1920 when it was forced to close because of
Prohibition
Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic ...
. It reopened in 1933 and stayed open until it shut its doors permanently in 1966.
Reisch Charities resurrected the Reisch Gold Top Beer brand in March 2019 using the original recipe brewed by George Reisch and Patrick Reisch. Reisch Charities was founded November 2018 by board members George Reisch, Daryl Ponder, Vince Salvo, Jim Reisch and Jeff DeGeal. All of the beer proceeds will be used for Springfield charities focusing on preserving Springfield heritage sites.
See also
*
List of defunct breweries in the United States
External links
Tony White's site great-great-grandson of Franz (Frank) Sales Reisch.
*http://www.reischcharities.org
Notes
Springfield, Illinois
Defunct brewery companies of the United States
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