Earle Johnson, beer pioneer and welcoming owner of Quenchers tavern, dies at 83

As the owner of Quenchers, one of the city's first destination beer bars, Earle Johnson tapped into the power of nostalgia to draw customers. Mr. Johnson stocked beer from nearly every country imaginable; when people returned from vacation — say in Argentina — and wanted to tap into the memory of drinking a beer on the beach, they could head to Quenchers in Logan Square and find that particular brew. "I don't know how he did it. It was a lot of work carrying a beer that one person in 10,000 was…