Adolphus Busch was born in Germany on this day in 1839. An immigrant to the U.S., he co founded the firm later known as Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., along with Eberhard Anheuser, his father-in-law. It would become one of the largest breweries in the world. Busch was the youngest of 21 children born to his father, …
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Several breweries including Miller and Schlitz were making a beer they called Budweiser.
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