This is a Headgun Podcast.

In 1867 in St. Louis, Missouri, William Dentch, the business partner of Everhard Anne

Hauser, sold his stake in their brewery to Anne Hauser's son-in-law, Adolphus Bush.

And so Anne Hauser Bush was born and the two German-Americans collaborated to build the

St. Louis original into the dominant American macro brewery on the backs of its Budweiser

brands.

But there's another international institution that was founded in the city famous for its

arch and transatlantic flight, a purveyor of not liquid but solid yeast by product.

A bakery founded in 1987 is St. Louis bread, though its official corporate history has been

oddly retconned to place its founding in Boston.

But true bread heads know what's up.

And in 1993, the prosperous STL baker was purchased by French-American pastry chain Albon

Pan who took the concept national.

The new ownership renamed the company the Spanish word for bread box or bread basket, and

that branding extended to newly opened outpost, though the Missouri locations still retain

the gateway to the West's name.

Oddly, the new company sold off its Albon Pan holdings in the late 90s to focus on its

new Midwest cash cow.

Though in something of a storybook ending, the company's reconnected and re-emerged

in 2017.

This time, one must hope for good.

And while through a series of mergers, Anheuser Bush may have grown into the almost indecisurable

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