Herman J. Berghoff came from Dortmund, Germany, and opened a brewery in Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1887. It was prosperous from the start. When his beer garnered wide acclaim at the Chicago Exposition in 1893, he opened a restaurant at Adams and State Streets in downtown Chicago. There he sold his beer for 5 cents a schooner and gave away sandwiches to attract trade. That restaurant, considerably more elegant than it used to be, still thrives under the Berghoff name. When the Berghoff brewery in Fort Wayne was sold in 1955, Berghoff kept its name and recipe and arranged to have the Joseph Huber Brewing Company in Monroe, Wisconsin make its beer in four styles: regular, dark, light and bock. Huber continues to bottle and distribute beer under the Berghoff name.
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