Prohibition the Noble Experiment

PROHIBITIONTHE NOBLE EXPERIMENT The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S.Constitution went into effect on January 16 1920. It shut down the liquor and beer industry. It closed all the breweries and distilleries and all of the saloons in the United States and forever altered the culture that had become to define the American social life.We look back on this Nobel Experiment called Prohibition today and we cant quite understand how that could have happened. What were people thinking back then?Sometimes it is hard for us to imagine life at the turn of the 20th century. Our standard of living has advanced so far and so fast. Its hard to imagine life without all the new inventions and technology that we enjoy today.This is a story of the Great Prohibition.January 16 1920 to December 1933.This is the story of a brewery and of the pioneer family that ran the brewery.This is the story of how the great Prohibition of the 1920s ended the life of this brewery and how the Fellerer family struggled to reopen the brewery at Perham Minnesota.This story is based on fact and contains actual historic events.