Heurich claimed this incursion "greatly injured" his property, and he sought $25,000 in damages (equivalent to $915,600 in 2023).

[12] Workers carried cases of beer into the White House, and a crowd spontaneously formed around the truck singing the 1929 song "Happy Days Are Here Again".

[13][14] On April 7, 1933, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, an Abner-Drury Brewery truck drove around the city with a U.S. Marine in the back.

[15] Abner-Drury was one of two pre-Prohibition breweries to re-open in Washington (along with the Christian Heurich Brewing Company).

"[17] Given the changing landscape of brewing after Prohibition and the rise of national bottled shipping brewers, the Abner-Drury Brewery had trouble competing.

[18][19] Abner-Drury was sold to a single bidder at an auction in August 1938 to an agent of Charles Jacobsen, who ran the Arlington Bottling Company.