The PC: Mitch Steele at Rich O’s in 1998 – Part One.

This tale has been relayed here before, but it's been almost eight years, so a reprise at LouisvilleBeer.com seemed merited. Surely Mitch Steele's visit to the Public House is one of the most memorable stories of our first decade in operation.

Part Two will be posted tomorrow.

Mitch Steele at Rich O’s in 1998 – Part One
Long ago and far away – roughly 1996, according to my increasingly unreliable memory – Anheuser-Busch dipped its bloated toe into mockrobrewing for the very first time, releasing a line called American Originals, and subsequently expanding its Michelob division to include a wheat beer, among others.

All of them eventually sank like the Titanic ...