A deal struck between two like-minded Kansas City businessmen will help bring a historic East Bottoms manufacturing plant back to life.
Boulevard Brewing Co. founder John McDonald — one of the early pioneers of craft brewing — sold the Ferd. Heim Brewing Co. bottling plant to J. Rieger & Co. — one of the area's earliest entrants into the rebirth of the craft distilling movement as well as one of the original Kansas City distilleries.
Ferd. Heim Brewing Co. was the largest pre-Prohibition…
A deal struck between two like-minded Kansas City businessmen will help bring a historic East Bottoms manufacturing plant back to life.
Boulevard Brewing Co. founder John McDonald — one of the early pioneers of craft brewing — sold the Ferd. Heim Brewing Co. bottling plant to J. Rieger & Co. — one of the area's earliest entrants into the rebirth of the craft distilling movement as well as one of the original Kansas City distilleries.
Ferd. Heim Brewing Co. was the largest pre-Prohibition…