The long quiet: 1933–2016

1933 — 2016

Repeal without makers: When national repeal came on December 5, 1933, Fort Wayne's breweries resumed within the year — Centlivre and Berghoff are the Business section's story, told there. In spirits and wine, nothing resumed, because there was nothing to resume. Through the rest of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, no licensed distillery operated in Allen County and no winery appears for the county in the state's winery listings: the county's eighty-year making record is a blank, and this entry exists to enter the blank as a fact rather than pass over it. Indiana's modern wine industry organized itself in these same decades — the Indiana Wine Growers Guild, now the Indiana Winery & Vineyard Association, dates to 1971 — and grew up in the state's southern vineyard counties first. When the northeast finally got a modern winery, in 2001, it was Satek, at Fremont in Steuben County, a fact the closing entry of this section states again with its jurisdiction attached. Fort Wayne's turn waited for the craft era, and for two specific rooms.

Sources:

1. Kevin Kilbane, "Dry and Dangerous," The News-Sentinel — repeal on December 5, 1933, and the breweries' resumption, as the decade's coda.
2. Indiana Winery & Vineyard Association / state winery listings, as carried in the Wikipedia "List of wineries in Indiana" — the county-by-county shape of the modern industry, in which Allen County carries no winery before Vinland Reserve (2022/2023).
3. Visit Fort Wayne, "Wineries, Breweries & Distilleries" regional guide — Allen County's winery entry is Vinland Reserve alone; the region's other wineries file under their own counties.