EPISODE · Oct 22, 2025 · 4 MIN
The two men who rescued Shiner Beer
from Texas Standard » Stories from Texas · host W.F. Strong
In 1909, in the little town of Shiner, a group of German and Czech farmers decided they missed the beer of the old country. They pooled their money, built a ramshackle brewery, and called it the Shiner Brewing Association. But they weren’t brewers. They were farmers. The beer was, well, bad. Locals apparently joked it […]
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