Abstract
Brantley discusses the Prohibition-era history of brewing in the borderland. Staring down Prohibition, which would begin Jan 17, 1920, some brewers in the US elected to move their operations abroad, often to the other side of the US-Mexico boundary and places like "healthful" Lake Chapala. Those who did not have the means to export entire breweries also sought available jobs in Mexico. Still others closed up shop and sold machinery to Mexican entrepreneurs. Crossing the border in various ways to escape the strictures of Prohibition, American brewers, alongside their Mexican counterparts in towns from Nogales to Monterrey, fostered an often-overlooked brewing industry in the borderlands.