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The flagship test: no brewery ever stood on this ground

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AUDIT ROW #302 · FLOOR, HANDS, AND BRANDS ASKED AFTER; THE ANSWER IS A FLOOR OF ZERO

There is no Walkerton flagship brewery — no plant with a floor and hands, no brand with a reach, no founding family with a succession — because there was no brewery. The checklist's flagship anatomy (the citywide firm, the family, the brands, the plant, the end) is printed here as a checklist run against an empty set, which is the only honest way to run it: each member was asked after in the gazetteer, directory, Sanborn, and press record, and each returned the same answer as the first-brewer test. What the town had instead of a brewery is the subject of the Hardenbrook article below — a bottling works — and the county's brewing flagships are Mishawaka's and South Bend's, carried in their own builds and pointed to in the boundary article. A tested negative, at full checklist strength.

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Source: The flagship test: no brewery ever stood on this ground, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/wineries-distilleries/flagship-test-no-brewery-ever-stood-on-this-ground/