Jacob Wirth's Celebrated Lager Beer Pint Glass ~ New York, Boston tm 1876

Jacob Wirth was born on June 2, 1840 and raised in the wine growing Bad Kreuzanach district in Rhineland - Palatinate, Germany. He emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1865 where, according to the Boston Globe archives, Wirth began his life in the United States as a baker. In 1868, Jacob Wirth established a wholesale and bottling company at 60 Eliot Street in Boston. From this location, he imported and sold fine Rhine wines from his homeland as well as wines from France.    Wirth was the sole Boston agent for the lager beers of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company of St. Louis, Missouri. This may have been partly due to the mutual heritage he shared with Eberhand Anheuser who also hailed from Kreuzanach. Additional beers sold by Wirth included George Ehret's Hell Gate Lager from New York, Robert Smith's India Pale Ale from Philadelphia, as well as a house beer he dubbed “The Boss Lager." The Jacob Wirth Restaurant was a historic German-American restaurant and bar in Boston, Massachusetts at 31-39 Stuart Street. Founded in 1868, Jacob Wirth was the second oldest continuously operated restaurant in Boston when it closed in 2018. Enjoy your favorite drink in this pint glass produced with a digitally restored Jacob Wirth's Lager Beer Trademark.Trademark number 4,097 was registered October 31, 1876.