The 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. the and empires rose and fell because of the public's taste for a well-crafted brew.

The Lymph family came to prominence in the middle 1800s as one of the premier brewing families in 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've been reduced to roles as spooky characters in a horror story,

rather than his living, breathing personalities that once shaped the history of the city.

The history of the Limp family is true American tragedy,

one of triumph over opposition, hard work, perseverance, genius and madness,

eccentricity and passion, horror, Death, and Suicide.

It was played out against the backdrop of America's changing landscape of the late 1800s and

early 1900s.

It's also the story of the beer industry in St. Louis,

the German immigrant experience,

and a riveting look at the lives and deaths of those for whom money truly was no object.

In 1926, author F Scott Fitzgerald wrote,

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