Maggie Hennessy

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It seemed a Tuesday like any other for Adam Jevne back in mid-February. The 15-year beverage director of Lincoln Hall, Tied House, and Schubas Tavern , contacted his sales rep at Chicago distributor Lakeshore Beverage to place his usual, three-keg order of Schlitz, a.k.a. golden nectar, a.k.a. the best-selling beer on draft at Schubas, one of a few dozen Schlitz Brewery-tied houses still standing citywide. The answer would prove to be a bitter omen

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