Before we get started on this episode I'd just like to say thank you to everyone who picked up a copy of the new edition of haunted St. Louis

A little behind the scenes here. We're actually recording this on the day after the book came out. It was released on Friday the 13th and it was really great to see a lot of the

podcast promo code in there for people who are listeners to the show. So if you aren't

familiar with that just put podcast into the promo code when you check out and you'll actually get 10% off the price of the book and you can get a really deep dive into a lot of the stories that we've been talking about on the

podcast this season. So anyway, thanks again to everyone who picked up a copy and

if you haven't gotten one yet, We hope you will. Thanks. In 1929 Gerald Hollis.

Gerald Hollis. In 1929, Gerald Holland wrote in American Mercury magazine,

whatever Odium may be attached to beer in other parts of the Republic,

its status in St. Louis is as firmly grounded as James Eads' span across the Mississippi.

Beer made St. Louis.

And he was right.

Beer was indeed the lifeblood of St. Louis, and empires rose and fell because of the public's taste for a well-crafted brew.

The Limp family came to prominence in the middle 1800s as one of the premier brewing families

of St. Louis.

For years they were the fiercest rival of Anheuser-Busch

and the first makers of Logger Beer in the Midwest,

but today they're largely forgotten as actual people.

They're more remembered for the mansion they built

than for the beer they once brewed.

They have been reduced to roles as spooky characters

and a horror story rather than as the living, breathing

personalities that shape the history of the city.

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