Alimony Ale
date: label: date made
content: 1983
notes: label: Description
content: From 1983 to 1994, this tap handle dispensed beer from the bar at Buffalo Bill's Brewery, one of the nation's first post-Prohibition brewpubs, founded by photographer Bill Owens in Hayward, California, in 1983. First brewed in 1987, the beer gained its name from one of the brewpub's customers going through a divorce.
label: Description
content: Small, "micro" brewers changed where and how many Americans drank beer. From the 1980s through the early 2000s, brewers worked to change legislation in their states to enable brewers to sell beer to customers to enjoy on-site, in the same location where it had been brewed, often with food. Brewpubs—an early 1980s innovation—functioned as informal gathering places that united producers with consumers and invited the community into the brewery. In this way, craft beer’s taprooms became a new kind of “third place,” in the words of a 1980s sociologist: a place for people to meet and relax that was neither the home nor the office.
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
label: Exhibition
content: Food: Transforming the American Table
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Buffalo Bill’s Brewery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0080.13
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0080.13
label: accession number
content: 2018.0080
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tap handle, beer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: acrylic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red; colorless (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in x 1 in; 17.145 cm x 7.9375 cm x 2.54 cm