<p>PROHIBITION</p><p>THE NOBLE EXPERIMENT</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S.Constitution went into effect on January 16, 1920.&nbsp; It shut down the liquor and beer industry.&nbsp; It closed all the breweries and distilleries and all of the saloons in the United States and forever altered the culture that had become to define the American social life.</p><p>We look back on this 'Nobel Experiment' called Prohibition today and we can&#39;t quite understand how that could have happened.&nbsp; What were people thinking back then?</p><p>Sometimes it is hard for us to imagine life at the turn of the 20th century.&nbsp; Our standard of living has advanced so far and so fast.&nbsp; It&#39;s hard to imagine life without all the new inventions and technology that we enjoy today.</p><p>This is a story of the Great Prohibition.</p><p>January 16, 1920 to December 1933.</p><p>This is the story of a brewery and of the pioneer family that ran the brewery.</p><p>This is the story of how the great Prohibition of the 1920&#39;s ended the life of this brewery, and how the Fellerer family struggled to reopen the brewery at Perham, Minnesota.</p><p>This story is based on fact and contains actual historic events.</p>