When a German immigrant named Theodore Hamm purchased the Excelsior Brewery in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1865, he probably couldn't have imagined that 100 years later a cartoon bear named Sascha would be more highly regarded than the liquid produced by his namesake brewery. But while the brewery was transferred from owner to owner (Heublein, Olympia, Pabst, and Stroh’s have all taken their turns managing Hamm's), Sascha endured until only...Continue Reading