Artillery

Our beer, like our history, is well worth remembering™

Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley
(better known as American Heroine Molly Pitcher)

Molly, 23-year-old wife of an artilleryman, carried water to men faint with thirst in the heat of the Battle of Monmouth. The soldiers, hearing her called “Molly" by her husband, called out: “Here comes Molly and her pitcher!" This they shortened to Molly Pitcher, and thus she has lived in history. She had come here to see her husband and, finding some of the gunners near prostration from the 96-degree heat, had caught up one of the artillery buckets and carried water from a nearby well or spring. Finding her husband disabled and another of the gun crew slain, she seized the swab and worked the rest of the day sponging the gun, keeping up its fire, and giving courage to the entire battery. The next day, barefooted and in her powder-stained dress, Gen. Nathanael Greene presented her to Gen. George Washington, who commended her bravery and made her a sergeant.

THE ALTBIER STYLE

“Alt” or “old beer” refers to the old methods of using a top fermenting ale yeast at ale temperatures but then cold aging the beer. The German term Altbier first appeared in the 1800s to differentiate this traditional ale from the growing popularity of newer pale lagers.