Written and researched by Steven Mooradian Koehler Beer and the Prohibition Era Steven Mooradian Hello! Welcome to this episode oftheHurstories, a history podcast presented by Mercyhurst students.My name is Steven Mooradian and I will be your host for this episode. Any goodErieitewill tell you, there’sa church on every street, and a bar on every corner. Erie’s long history with beer extends to the first largewaves of immigration, bringing their brewing practices with them, nonemore locally famous than the Koehler family. Their persistence through 13 years of prohibition propelled them into local legend,and theKohelername remains a stapleinnorthwestern Pennsylvania. Erie, Pennsylvania has been aMecca for immigrantsfor over a century and a half.Groups of Italian, Polish, German, Irish, Russian, Greek, and other European immigrants have historically found a small slice of Erie to call home. Even more recently,large contingencies of Nepalese, Bhutanese, Syrian, Central African,and Lat...