The Publicans Contraption — Patent Drawing for Beer Dispensing Apparatus Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Cornelius Keg Patent Blueprint

The Cornelius Keg Patent Blueprint of the American Pour is the kind of drawing a brewmaster pinned above his desk — a small mechanical solution to a very specific problem of yeast

the Empire State and Chrysler reduced to silver totems beneath the formation

its braced iron legs drafted with the quiet confidence of engineers who knew that mud

Mead & White imposed on the bluff

knowing the shoal would test each rivet

The Publicans Contraption — Patent Drawing for Beer Dispensing Apparatus Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Cornelius Keg Patent BlueprintThe Publicans Contraption Patent Drawing for Beer Dispensing Apparatus is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science pumps, racks, and cooling coils designed by men who understood that beer is mostly a problem of temperature. We print this archival document to order at our Pacific Northwest studio on premium canvas stock with archival pigment inks. It arrives ready to hang in a hand finished frame built in our shop