Beer and dark secrets alike brewed on the streets of Iowa City in the 1880s, and soon those secrets will be revealed as the streets set the scene for the upcoming film “Death of a Brewer.”
“Death of a Brewer,” based on the book “Beer Money: A Tale of the Iowa City Beer Mafia” by Coralville author S.C. Sherman, pays homage to the three breweries that lived on the North side of Iowa City during the 1880s.
John’s Grocery owner Doug Alberhasky is a seventh-generation Iowa City citizen and serves as a tour guide for the beer caves that sit underneath the modern-day Brewery Square Building…