The Oh, I'm not. In 1929, Gerald Holland wrote in American Mercury magazine,

Whatever Odia may be attached to Beer in other parts of the Republic,

its status in St Louises is firmly grounded as James Ees's span across the Mississippi.

Beer made St. Louis.

And he was right.

Beer was the lifeblood of the city.

Empire's Rosen fell because of a nation's thirst for well-crafted brew.

The Limp family rose to prominence in St. Louis during America's Guilded Age.

They made the city's first logger beer.

They built a national network of taverns, distributors, and suppliers while Anheuser-Bush was still trying to figure out how to transport their beer out of St. Louis.

When it came to beer, the Limps had no true rivals. They were innovative, groundbreaking, and wealthy beyond belief.

And yet today, far too few remember their names.

They are better remembered for the mansion they built than for the award-winning beer they once made.

They have become little more than spooky characters in a ghost story, rather than living, breathing personalities that shape the history of St. Louis.

I decided to change the opening of the podcast for this episode, which is an exploration of the final days of the

limp brewing empire.

We've already established who the lymphs were and what they accomplished during the late 19th and early 20th century.

I hope that the episodes that have come before have helped you to understand the events

both great and terrible that made the lymphs who they were. They were not perfect, but they were human.

And they were, as F Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, The very rich, they're different from you

and me. As I've said before Fitzgerald was not writing about the

limps but he could have been. There is no question the limps were very

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