Forgotten Heroes Podcast

Forgotten Heroes Podcast


Forgotten Heroes of Beer

April 07, 2020

Jeff traces the roots of National Beer Day– April 7th–to a cadre of New York politicians who won the first battle against Prohibition by authoring a bill to legalize (3.2%) beer in 1932. The group was led by a young senator named Thomas Cullen, whose name is remembered in the title of the bill. Mark takes us on a journey to Vietnam, 2019, where the war was not between humans–rather, it was the deadly effects of ethanol’s malicious little brother, methanol, that required Dr. Le “Jean-Claude” Van Lam’s last-minute, foamy cure…