Editing Milwaukee (section)

===Brewing===
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Milwaukee became synonymous with [[Germans]] and [[beer]] beginning in the 1840s. The Germans had long enjoyed beer and set up breweries when they arrived in Milwaukee. By 1856, there were more than two dozen breweries in Milwaukee, most of them owned and operated by Germans. Besides making beer for the rest of the nation, Milwaukeeans enjoyed consuming the various beers produced in the city's breweries. As early as 1843, pioneer historian James Buck recorded 138 taverns in Milwaukee, an average of one per forty residents. Today, [[beer hall]]s and taverns are abundant in the city, but only one of the major breweries—[[Miller Brewing Company|Miller]]—remains in Milwaukee.<ref name="milwaukeehistory.net">{{cite web|url=http://www.milwaukeehistory.net/milwaukee_timeline/1800s.html|title=Milwaukee County Historical Society – Milwaukee Timeline 1800s|publisher=Milwaukeehistory.net|access-date=July 2, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610215529/http://www.milwaukeehistory.net/milwaukee_timeline/1800s.html|archive-date=June 10, 2010}}</ref>

Milwaukee was once the home to four of the world's largest beer breweries ([[Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company|Schlitz]], [[Valentin Blatz Brewing Company|Blatz]], [[Pabst Brewing Company|Pabst]], and Miller), and was the number one beer producing city in the world for many years. As late as 1981, Milwaukee had the greatest brewing capacity in the world.<ref name="Breweries Shut Off Tap">{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-04-01-8501180549-story.html|title=Milwaukee Loses 'Beer Capital' Title as Breweries Shut off Tap|website=Chicago Tribune|date=April 1985|access-date=April 25, 2021}}</ref> Despite the decline in its position as the world's leading beer producer after the loss of two of those breweries, Miller Brewing Company remains a key employer by employing over 2,200 of the city's workers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.millerbrewing.com/images/inthecommunity/pdf/millerWIimpact.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822162035/http://www.millerbrewing.com/images/inthecommunity/pdf/millerWIimpact.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 22, 2006|title=Connected to Wisconsin – its people and its economy|publisher=Miller Brewing Company|date=February 2005}}</ref> Because of Miller's position as the second-largest beer-maker in the U.S., the city remains known as a beer town. The city and surrounding areas are seeing a resurgence in microbreweries, nanobreweries and brewpubs with the craft beer movement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.jsonline.com/entertainment/beer/demand-for-better-beer-foments-a-new-brewery-boom-in-milwaukee-b99723919z1-386980631.html|title=Demand for better beer foments a new brewery boom in Milwaukee|website=Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel|access-date=February 9, 2017|author-first1=Kathy|author-last1=Flanigan}}</ref>

The historic Milwaukee Brewery in "Miller Valley" at 4000 West State Street, is the oldest functioning major brewery in the United States. In 2008, [[Coors Brewing Company|Coors]] beer also began to be brewed in Miller Valley. This created additional brewery jobs in Milwaukee, but the company's world headquarters moved from Milwaukee to Chicago.

In addition to Miller and the heavily automated [[Leinenkugel's]] brewery in the old Blatz 10th Street plant, other stand-alone breweries in Milwaukee include [[Milwaukee Ale House|Milwaukee Brewing Company]], a microbrewery in [[Neighborhoods of Milwaukee#Walker's Point|Walker's Point neighborhood]]; [[Lakefront Brewery]], a [[microbrewery]] in Brewers Hill; and [[Sprecher Brewery]], a German brewery that also brews craft sodas. Since 2015, nearly two dozen craft brewing companies have been established in the city.<ref name="Late">{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/travel/brewstraveler/ct-milwaukee-craft-breweries-travel-0611-20170526-story.html|title=Late to the craft beer scene, Milwaukee's small brewers are a big hit|first=Josh|last=Noel|website=Chicago Tribune|date=June 2017|access-date=March 16, 2019}}</ref><ref name="22 New">{{cite web|url=https://www.milwaukeemag.com/brewery-boom-new-milwaukee-breweries/|title=Welcome to Milwaukee's Brewery Boom: 22 New Breweries to Try|first=Dan|last=Murphy|website=milwaukeemag.com|date=January 28, 2019|access-date=March 16, 2019}}</ref>

Three beer brewers with Wisconsin operations made the 2009 list of the 50 largest beermakers in the United States, based on beer sales volume. Making the latest big-breweries list from Wisconsin is [[MillerCoors]] at No. 2. MillerCoors is a joint venture formed in 2008 by Milwaukee-based Miller Brewing Co. and Golden, Colorado-based [[Molson Coors Brewing Company]]. The [[Joseph Huber Brewing Company|Minhas Craft Brewery]] in [[Monroe, Wisconsin]], which brews Huber, Rhinelander and Mountain Crest brands, ranked No. 14 and [[New Glarus Brewing Company]], [[New Glarus, Wisconsin]], whose brands include Spotted Cow, Fat Squirrel and Uff-da, ranked No. 32.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/04/13/daily23.html|title=Three state breweries make largest list – The Business Journal of Milwaukee|publisher=Milwaukee.bizjournals.com|date=April 14, 2009|access-date=July 2, 2010}}</ref>