Interesting brewery pictures on MSN https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddr...dd9cc9283b149858a4b0b6c5da9b0c0&ei=78#image=2
The historic Grain Belt Brewery in NE Minneapolis. Grain Belt is now owned & brewed by August Schell Brewing in New Ulm, MN. Another fantastic brewer.
The police busting the illegal one is great, some cool pictures in there. That is a beautiful building and beautiful blue sky, I would love to go there one day if the stars ever align for us to end up in MN.
Judge Roy Bean's eccentric saloon in Langtry, on the Texas/Mexico border, late 19th century. I presume that “Ice Beer” means ice cold beer. Cheers!
That sure looks like the sign in the back says Blatz Brg Co.,(Milwaukee) - one of their brands being "Old Heidelberg". There's no record of a Chicago brewery by that name - it could be a Blatz tavern in that city, I suppose. And "Brew" suggests it could have been a Prohibition near beer. Hundreds of US breweries continued to operate during Prohibition (fewer every year, though) brewing beer, de-alcoholizing it and selling legal "near beer" (0.5% or less). Those breweries would not have dismantled their brewing equipment, of course. In addition, there were also Could be, but also looks like the classic way to pitch casks, similar to this pic at Plzeňský Prazdroj for Pilsner Urquell casks.
Philadelphia Brewing in the Kensington area of Philly, is in the building that was originally Weisbrod & Hess Oriental Brewing Company, built in in 1885 https://philadelphiabrewing.com/about-us/
Also - what? (Looks like my copy/paste didn't take - my mouse is screwing up lately). Well... A Congressional report, after interviewing Prohibition Commissioner Haynes, in 1925, as reported by the Hearst wire service I.N.S.: There are now 991 brewery sites, 401 operating with permit and 581 breweries suspected of making a cereal beverage or beer without any permit from the government "in fact running as outlaws". A long list of breweries operating under permits have been found guilty of violating the law and their permits have been taken away...They then barricade their breweries, claim they are making a cereal beverage under one-half of 1 per cent; that it never increases beyond that point, that they are not required to have a permit and refuse the government inspectors the right to inspect the premises. From these plants high-powered beer comes more freely than from the other.
Schoenhofen brewery Chicago photos: http://forgottenchicago.com/articles/schoenhofen-brewery/ see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoenhofen_Brewing_Company/ The Schoenhofen Edelweiss label survived into the late 70s as the Pickett (Dubuque Star) brewery's low price brand (maybe $3.50 a returnable case in '76). Owner Joseph Pickett had previously been the Chicago brewmaster of Edelweiss (but probably after the Schoenhofen plant had closed). The Wikipedia article tells us that Green River (soda pop) was a Schoenhofen product. I have a memory of a container of Green River concentrate at the drug store counter that my mother took me to when I was 5 or 6. I would have root beer floats or choc. malted shakes (no Green River for me).
Your post (and the lousy weather) inspired me to put together all my Pickett info and create a chronology of the masterbrewer and some of his brands. So, looks like he joined Schoenhofen Edelweiss in the early 40's, stayed with the company and at the Chicago brewery though the owner of Drewrys and then Associated, left when they closed the Chicago brewery a few years before selling most of their brands to Heileman. He bought the Iowa brewery and a few year later the Edelweiss (and Champagne Velvet) brand from Heileman. Trivia note - Joe Pickett played professional football for the Pittsburgh Pirates while attending college at Duquesne Univ. in the early '30s.
Found a few pictures from the early 1970s, so depending on one's definition of old not very old perhaps. But I thought they were interesting in showing a small Swedish brewery at the time (Östra Bryggeriet, in Halmstad, since bought and closed down), and also since they don't look like promotional shots, but instead seem to show the day to day operations. Since I can't post more than two pictures in one post I'll post a link to the imgur page instead. Most aspects of the operation would seem familiar to a small or medium sized German or Czech brewer at the time I imagine, even today, while a few things would seem different, or perhaps strange (the use of "risgrits", rice grits, from a "CORN PRODUCTS CO.", and "råsocker", raw sugar, seen placed next to the hop kettle which was likely also used to boil the rice grits and sugar). I note that the bale of hops to the right in the first picture shown has a stamp on it where I can make out Ceskoslov and Rep, and 1972, so Czech hops from the 1972 harvest, which helps date the pictures.
The American Brewery in Baltimore (can't remember the name of the previous occupant). Worked there one summer when in college. Fell into a sad state of disrepair after it closed. Was recently renovated and being used by a non-profit nowadays.
This rang a bell and I recall doing some research on this brewery for a friend from Baltimore. Pre-Pro, that was the Wiessner Brewing Co., but the interesting thing about it was the Wiessner brand was reborn in 1950, after the former assistant brewmaster (son of the brewmaster), was hired by the new owner of the Free State Brewery. Only lasted about 2 years. As noted, in between those two firms, the brewmaster Frederick "Freddy" Neumeister also ran and brewed at another famous Baltimore brewing company, Bismarck.
