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Breweries of Wisconsin
By Jerry Apps

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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
Soft Cover, 252 pages, 7 x 10.
Item #1112

This is the cornerstone work on brewing in Wisconsin. A superbly-executed book on the state's rich brewery history with special emphasis on the Milwaukee giants. Includes complete histories of Pabst, Miller, Schlitz, Blatz, Heileman, and others. But also provides good detail on many of the smaller Wisconsin breweries, defunct and otherwise. Great photos throughout, and a multi-page color section.

From the dust jacket:

Wisconsin license plates hail the state as "America's Dairyland." It would be equally appropriate if the plates read "America's Beer Garden," because Wisconsin and beer-brewing are virtually synonymous. The state has given this country more of its most prominent national brands - Miller, Blatz, Schlitz, and Pabst, to name but a few - than any other region. But within Wisconsin, beer-making has been a thriving industry as well, from cottage size to colossus, and it would be a brave person who would start a tavern argument in favor of, say, Garten Brau, knowing that loyal defenders of Point or Huber, Leinenkugel's or Chippewa Pride, Rhinelander or Miller, were all around. Indeed, there have probably been more beers born in Wisconsin than whiskies in Scotland. This book is their story.

It is the story first of the European immigrants who brought master brewing skills to the frontier in the early nineteenth century and of the origin and growth of the modern industrial giants. Between 1840 and 1960 Wisconsin saw a rich history of growth (and decline), of technological innovation, of the emergence of parallel industries from agriculture to advertising, of movements such as Prohibition and the Anti-Saloon League, of the struggle between the independents and the conglomerates, and of colorful personalities in Wisconsin's history who enlivened the scene: Joseph Huber, Valentine Blatz, the Miller and Pabst families, and all the others. All are brought vividly to life in these pages.

Foremost, however, this is a Wisconsin story: tiny rural communities that became brewing metropolises, pioneers who built fortunes and traditions that are part of Wisconsin culture to this day, the evolution of the taverns, the growing appreciation of the brewery buildings themselves as period artifact and art form, and the consumers whose thirst for beer made the whole story possible.

Beautifully illustrated throughout, with a sixteen-page full-color portfolio of the wonderful promotional art unique to beer, Breweries of Wisconsin also includes a list of nearly every brewery and beer in the state's history and quiz items to heighten your enjoyment (or start good-natured arguments!). If you're from Wisconsin (or not), if you're a connoisseur or a collector of beer memorabilia, or if you just want to know the real story behind that mug in your hand, this book's for you!

INDEX

A
Abstinence • "Accelerated batch fermentation" • Eugene Achatz • Samuel Adams • Advertising • Ahnapee Brewery • Alcohol • Alcoholic content • John Alden • Ale • Algoma, brewery in • Aluminum • American Brewing Company • American Can Company • American Temperance Society • Anheuser-Busch • Antigo Brewing Company • The Anti-Prohibition Manual • Anti-Saloon League • Appleton, brewery in • Appleton Brewing Company • Appleton Brewing and Malting Company • Herman Apps • John Arnold • Associated Brewing Company • Augsburger beer

B
Babylon, beer in • August E. Backus • Bad beer • Badger Prohibitionist • Steven Baier • Bangor, brewery in • Baraboo, brewery in • Barley • Barrels • Bavarian Beer Purity Law of 1561 • William E Baxter • Beaumont Hops House • Beaver Dam Brewery • Paul Bechtner • Edward Becker • Beer garden • Bellevue Brewery • Anthony Benezet • Berghoff-Huber Brewing Company • Jacob von Bergzabern • Berlin Brewing Company • Berliner beer • Berlin Weiss Brewing Company • Charles Best • Jacob Best • Jacob Best Jr. • Jacob Best Sr. • Lorenz Best • Maria Best • Phillip Best • Best and Company Brewery • Best Brewery • Philip Best Brewing Company • Bethesda Brewery • Bever • Anton Beyer • Bier • Henry Bierbauer • Black and Tan • Black River Falls Brewery • Henry W. Blair • Valentine Blatz • Blatz Brewing Company (Val Blatz Brewery) • Bleser Brewing Company • Blitz-Weinhard Brewery • Adrian Block • Jack Blocker • Harold Bloomquist • George L. Blum • Blumer Brewing Company • Bock beer • George "Tuff" Boeder • Belle Cushman Bohn • Bond Corporation of Australia • Boscobel Brewing Company • Bottles, bottling • Fred Brand • John Braun • Thomas Bray • Mathais Breckheimer • Breckheimer Brewery • Jacob Breunig • John Breunig • Breunig Brewery • Brewery tours • Brewing process • Brewmaster • Brewmaster's Pub, Restaurant and Brewery • British Hollow, brewery in • J.C. Brodesser • Brooklyn Brewery • Paul B. Brown • Peter Bub Brewery • James Buck • Budweiser beer • August Buehler • John Buhrow • J. Harold Bumby • Burlington Brewing Company • August A. Busch III • Consul Willshire Butterfield

C
J.R. Caldwell • Campale Brands • Cans, beer in • Capital Brewery • Carbon dioxide • Carling Brewing Company • Carling National Brewers • Dan Carlsson • Glenna Carter • Casks • Caves, beer stored in • Cecil Brewery • Cedarburg, brewery in • Cedarburg Brewing Company • Centennial Exposition (1876) • Charitable/community contributions • Cherryland Brewery Pub • Chicago • Chicago Tribune • Chief Oshkosh beer • China, beer in • Chippewa Falls, brewery in • Toby Christensen • Hans Christiansen • Citizens Brewing Company • City Brewery (of La Crosse) • City Brewery (of Milwaukee) • Russell Cleary • Closings, of breweries • Thomas Cochran • Cold filtration system • James D. Colledge • Columbian Exposition (1893) • Columbus, brewery in • Consumers Digest.Consumer Reports • Cooker mash • Coopers • Coors • Corn, as ingredient in beer • Jesse Cottingham • Cullen-Harrison Bill

D
Dakota beer • Henry Danner • John Davis • Dells Brewery • Denmark Brewing Company • Alan Dikty • Dodgeville, brewery in • Dortmund beer • Henry Downer • Draft beer • Dry beer • Dry towns • Henry J. Duhler • Duluth Brewing and Malting Company • Henry Dunster

E
Eagle Brewery • Eagle Premium Pilsner • Nathaniel Eaton • Eau Claire, brewery in • Carl Ebner • Ebner Brewing Company • Christopher Eckstein • Ferdinand Effinger • Effinger Brewery • Egypt, brewing in • Estelle Ehlert • George Ehret • Eighteenth Amendment • Einbeck beer • Electric City Brewing Company • Elk Grove, brewery in • Ellsworth Brewing Company • Emmer • Empire Brewery • Larry Engelmann • England (brewing in, hops grown in) • Henry Epstein Sr. • Epstein Brothers Brewery • Timothy Ericson • Adam Eulberg • Louis Eulberg • Peter Eulberg • Eulberg Brewing Company

F
Falls City Brewing Company • Farmers Brewing Company • Farmington Brewery • Franklin B. Farvour • Henry Fauerbach • Karl F. Fauerbach • Louis Fauerbach • Peter Fauerbach • Fauerbach Brewing Company • Nic Feldhausen • Fermentation • John H. Figi Jr. • Figi Brewing Company • Diane Filipowicz • Fillmore, brewery in • G. Fine • Fort Atkinson, brewery in • Fort Winnebago Brewery • Fountain City Brewing Company (Fountain Brewery) • Peter Fox Brewing Company • Fox Head Brewery • Fox Lake Brewery • Benjamin Franklin • William Franzen's Northern Glass Company • Rasmus Fredrickson • August Fuermann

G
General Beer • General Brewing Corporation • Germans (as beer makers, Prohibition linked to sentiment against) • Germantown, brewery in • Adam Gettelman • Frederick W. Gettelman • Thomas Gettelman • Gettelman Brewing Company • Geyser Peak Winery • David Gipfel • Gipfel Union Brewery • Girl in the Moon • John Glatz and Son Brewery • Gluek Brewing Company • Phillip Goerres Cooperage Company • Balthasar Goetter • W.R. Grace Company • Grain Belt Breweries • Grains, in brewing • Grand Rapids Brewing Company • Great American Beer Festival (1985) • Green Bay, brewery in • Green beer • Gruit beer • John Gund • John Gund Brewing Company • Gutsch Brewing Company

H
Haas Brewing Company • Carl Haertel • Haertel Brewery • Francis Henry Hagemeister • Hagemeister Brewing Company • Gabriel Hail • Gabriel Hail Brewery • Hamms • Louis Hartl • Harvard College, brewery of • Joseph Hausmann • Hausmann Brewing Company • Hazy beer • Michael J. Healy • Frederick Heck • John Heff • Rudolph Heger • Heger Malting and Brewing Company • Gottlieb Heileman • G. Heileman Brewing Company • Heineken lager • L.A. Henning • Henry III • Ed Hess • Frank J. Hess • Frank J. Hess and Sons Cooperage • Hibernia Brewing, Ltd. • Otto A. Hilgermann • Hillsboro Brewing Company • August Hochgreve • Chris Hochgreve • Hochgreve Brewing Company • Home-brewing • Hop beer • Hop cones • Hop houses • Hopped ale • Hops • August Horn • Horn and Schwalm Brewery • Charles Hottelmann • Fred Huber • Joseph Huber • Joseph Huber Brewing Company • Hudepohl Brewing Company • Joseph Hussa • Joseph Hussa Brewing Company • George Hutter • Hutter Brewing Company • Hydrometer

I
IBT • Ice, need for • Independent Milwaukee Brewery • Independent Order of Good Templars • India, beer in • Scott Ingwell • Internal Revenue Service • International Stock Exposition (1904)

J
Irwin Jacobs • Ed Janus • Jefferson, brewery in • Thomas Jefferson • Jefferson Brewing and Malting Company • Sam Jensen • Jerusalem artichoke, beer from • Phillip Jung • William G. Jung Brewing Company • Justice Department, on brewery buy-outs

K
Paul Kalmanovitz • Kaukauna, brewery in • Kegs, beer sold in • Kenosha, brewery in • Kenosha Brewing Company • Kewaunee, brewery in • Kingsbury Breweries Company • Albert Kirchner • James Kirchner • Albert Kirchstein • Kitzinger Cooperage Company • Charles Klein • Ernst C. Klinkert Brewery • Henry Knapstein • Mathias Knapstein • Theodore Knapstein • William H. Knapstein • William M. Knapstein • Knapstein Brewing Company • John Knipschilt • G.H. Koenig • Calvin Korfmann • Ludwig Korfmann • Stephen J. Korris • Kraeusening • Margaret Krohn • August Krug • Gustav Kuenzel • Lorenz Kuenzel • Kuenzel Brewery • Charles Kulnick • Roy E. Kumm • George Kunz Company • Kunz and Bleser Brewing Company • John Kurth and Company

L
Robert Laatsch • Labels, as art • La Crosse, brewery in • La Crosse Breweries • La Crosse Refining Company • Lager • Lake Brewery • Lakeside Brewery • Lamira, brewery in • Joseph Langer • Joseph Lechner • Henry Leinenkugel • J. William Leinenkugel • Jacob Leinenkugel • Joseph Leinenkugel • Matthias Leinenkugel • Thomas Leinenkugel • Jacob Leinenkugel Brewery • Gottlieb Leuenberger and Company • Light beer • "Lightning Stopper" • Anton Link • Liquor • Lithium salts • Alfred P. Loether • Lone Star Brewing Company • Low-calorie beer • Lowenbrau • Loyalty, to brands/breweries • Lupulin • Andrew Lutz • Jacob Lutz

M
Dorothy G. McCarthy • Anton Mach • Theodore Mack • Henry Macke • Henry Macke Brewery • Daniel F. McKeithan Jr. • Madison, brewery in • Gottlieb Maier • Malt • Malt beer • Malt bread • Malting • Malt liquor • Maltose • Malt syrups • Malt tonic • Manitowoc, brewery in • Marathon City Brewery • Marketing • Marshfield Brewing Company • George Martin • Groucho Marx • Mashing • Massachusetts Bay Company • Frank Mathie • Mathie Brewing Company • Mathie-Ruder Brewing Company • Michael Matucheski • Paul Mayer • Mayflower • Mayville Brewing Company • Medicinal powers (of beer, of hops) • Jacob Melchoir • Melchoir Brewery • Melms Brewery • Menasha, brewery in • Menasha Brewing Company • Menomonee Brewery • Menomonee Valley Brewery • Mequon, brewery in • Charles Michel • John Michel • C. & J. Michel Brewery • Micro-breweries • Middleton, brewery in • Frederick Miller • John Miller • Miller Brewing Company • Simeon Mills • Milwaukee • Milwaukee Brewery • Milwaukee Cooperage Company • Milwaukee-Germantown Brewery • Milwaukee Sentinel • Mineral Point, brewery in • Mineral Springs Brewing Company • Peter Minuit • Minuit Brewery • Mishicot Brewing Company • Molasses, beer from • Monarch Brewery of Chicago • Monasteries, brewing in • Monroe, brewery in • Monroe Brewery • Jacob Moritz • Philip Morris Corporation • Inc. MTX • Charles E. Mueller • Edward Frederick Mueller • Edward R. Mueller • Richard Mueller • Mueller Brewing Company • Muench Brewing Company • Conrad Muntzenberger • Murphy Products Company • Jacob Muth

N
National Association of Distiller and Wholesale Dealers • National Prohibition party • Near beer • Robert Nesbit • Netherlands (breweries in, hops in) • Joseph Neugent • New Brewer • Newburg, brewery in • New Glarus Brewing Company • New Lisbon Brewery • New London, brewery in • New York City, brewery in • New York state, hops grown in • New York Times • Nicolai Brewery • Non-alcoholic beer • Northern Brewing Company • North Lake Brewery

O
Jacob Obermann • Jacob Obermann Brewery • Oconto Brewing Company • Ulrich Oderbolz • Oderbolz Brewing Company • Oertel Brewing Company • Olde English 800 Malt Liquor • Old Port Brewing Company • Old Style beer • Old Style lager • Don Oleson • Olympia Brewing Company • One Hundred Years of Brewing • Chief Oshkosh • Oshkosh Brewing Company • Oshkosh Cooperage Company • Richard Owens • Owens' Brewery

P
Captain Frederick Pabst • Fred Pabst Jr. • Gustav Pabst • Pabst Brewing Company • "Pabst Half-Hour" • Pabst Theater • Pabst Wonder Process Cheese • Louis Pahl • Pasteurization • Patent medicines, alcoholic content of • William Pawlett • Frank Penman • William Penn • People's Brewing Company • Emil Perplies • Pheasant Branch Brewery • Philadelphia, as brewing center • John Phillips • Phoenix Brewing Company; • Pilsen Brewing Company • Pilsner • Pittsburgh Brewing Company • Plank Road Brewery • Platteville Brewery • Plymouth Brewing Company • Bob Pohl • Point Special beer • Ponies • Portage, brewery in • Porter • Port Washington, brewery in • Port Washington Brewing Company • Potato beer • Potosi Brewing Company • Premier Malt Products Company • Princeton Brewing Company • Prohibition • Prohibition National Committee • Lewis Protheroe • Pub brewery • Pumpkin beer

Q
Charles de Quillfeldt

R
Henry Rablin • Racine, brewery in • Radio, advertising on • David Radzanowski • Edward Ragatz • Henry Rahr • William Rahr • William Rahr and Sons Brewery • Rahr Green Bay Brewing Company • Rainier Brewing Company • Random Lake, brewery in • Ray Rauch • Reedsburg Brewery • Refrigeration • Regenfuss Brewing Company • Herman Reuthlisberger • Revolutionary War, beer rations in • Rhinelander Brewing Company • Rice, as ingredient in beer • Rice Lake Brewing Company • Rice Lake City Brewery • Richland Center, wet/dry issue in • Paul Rimstead • Henry Ring Sr. • Leander Ringle • Ripon Brewery • Ripon City Brewery • River Falls, wet/dry issue in • River Falls Journal • James D. Robertson • Rockdale Brewery • F.D. Roosevelt • Mike Royko • George Ruder • George Ruder Brewing Company • Howard J. Ruff • Benjamin Rush

S
St. Louis, as brewing center • Saloons • S and P Company • Sauk City Brewery • Emil Schandein • Fred Scheer • Emil P. Scheibe • Scheibe and Schneider Brewery • Joseph Schlitz • Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company • C. Schmidt and Sons • Nicholas Schmidt • Steven Schmidt • Albert Schneider • Norman Schneider • Schronbrunn Brewing Company • Adam Schumacher • Schumacher Brewing Company • Louis Schunk • Robert Schwalbach Brewery • Lenhardt Schwalm • Bernard Schwartz • George Schweickhart • Reynold Scot • Seibel Brewing Institute • Frank Sellinger • Shawano, brewery in • Sheboygan, brewery in • Felix "Phil" Shibilski • Kenneth Shibilski • Ship's beer • Shullsburg Brewery • August Sindermann • Franz Sindermann • Slinger, brewery in • Small beer • John B. Smith • William F. Smith • William F. Smith Jr. • Henry Sommermyer • Sons of Temperance • Sparging • Spencer, brewery in • Adam Sprecher • Sprecher Brewing Company • Spring Brewery • Spruce beer • Staats Brewery • Star Brewery • Star Brewing Company • George Stevens • Stevens Point Beverage Company • Stevens Point Journal • Charles Stolper Cooperage Company • Henry Stoltz • Storck Products Company • Stout • Stroh Brewing Company • Strong beer • George Stuhlfauth • Oscar Stuhlfauth • Sturgeon Bay, brewery in • Superior, brewery in

T
Tannenbaum beer • Taste • Taverns • Taxes, on beer • Television, advertising on • Temperance movement • Theresa, brewery in • Tommy Thompson • Three point two beer • Trade secrets • Trempealeau, brewery in • Two Rivers, brewery in • Two Rivers Beverage Company

U
Alfred Uihlein • August Uihlein • Edward C. Uihlein • Henry Uihlein • Robert Uihlein • Uihlein Hall • United States Brewers' Association • University of Wisconsin, beer at • Upward infusion process

V
Van Dyke Brewing Company • Volstead Act • Von Stiehl Winery

W
John Wagner • Frank Wahle • Charles Walter • Christian Walter • Edgar Walter • George M. Walter • Jake Walter • John Walter • Johannes Walter • Martin Walter • Steven Walter • John Walter Brewing Company • War Production Board • George Washington • Washington state, hops grown in • Water, purity of • Water Street Brewery • Watertown, brewery in • Waukesha, brewery in • Waukesha Imperial Spring Brewing Company • Wausau, brewery in • Wautoma, local prohibition in • Stephen F. Weber • G. Weber Brewing Company • Weber Waukesha Brewing Company • Weiss beer • Carl August Weist • R. Craig Werle • West Bend Lithia Brewing Company • White water Brewing Company • Wiedemann Brewing Company • Wild Rose, wet/dry issue in • William and Mary College, brewery of • Wisconsin (Prohibition in, temperance movement in, water in) • "Wisconsin Idea" • Wisconsin Rapids, brewery in • Wittemann carbon dioxide recovery system • John Wittman • Wittman Brewery • Woman's Christian Temperance Union • Woodenware Company • World's Columbian Exposition (1893) • World's Fair (1878, Paris) • World's Fair (1904, St. Louis) • World War II • Wort • Wrigley Field • Wurzberger

Y
Yeast

Z
John Zappa • Louis Ziegler • Louis Ziegler Brewing Company • Franz Zimmerman Brewery

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