Miamisburg breweries—then and now
© 2019 Timothy R. Gaffney When it opened in 2013, the Star City Brewing Co. revived a piece of Miamisburg history. Built in 1828 as a sawmill skirting the Miami and Erie Canal, the structure had last housed the Peerless Mill Inn , a popular local supper club. What's more, Star City also revived, after more than a century, Miamisburg's own brewing industry. Star City Brewing Co. Star City stands at 319 South Second Street. A block north is the Lucky Star Brewery , which came a year later to occupy another canal-era industrial building. Together, they established a small brewery district on the edge of downtown, and they may have created a first: the first time Miamisburg had two breweries operating at once. My book's main title is Dayton Beer , but it includes other communities in a region roughly bounded by Xenia, Springfield, Wapakoneta, Minster, Union City and Greenville. I devoted a whole chapter to Miamisburg for a lar...