Buffalo\'s appreciation for a frosty pint stretches back more than a century before anyone enjoyed a cold one with a basket of wings.
Historian Michael Rizzo and brewer Ethan Cox explore the sudsy story of Buffalo beer..
Today, a new batch of breweries like Community Beer Works and Big Ditch Brewing Company are crafting a beer revolution in the Queen City.
A few survivors struggled to recover.
Prohibition saw a thriving business in black market hooch, though it all but killed the city\'s historic breweries.
Operations like Simon Pure Beer, Iroquois Beverage and the Magnus Beck Brewing Company brought Buffalo\'s world-class ales to the rest of the country.
By the middle of the 1800s, the industrial hub counted malt and beer among its most vital and satisfying products.
Buffalo\'s appreciation for a frosty pint stretches back more than a century before anyone enjoyed a cold one with a basket of wings
