Lake View Brewery Buffalo New York Founded By Alois Schaefer

Lake View Brewery in Buffalo New York
(Buffalo Illustrated Times. February 28, 1904)

(This article is from excerpted from a section on local breweries published in the Buffalo Illustrated Times. February 28, 1904)

A little over 40 years ago, Alois Schaefer established the Lake View Brewing Company. It was, of course a comparatively small concern at its inception. But then Buffalo was but a little city. The growth of Buffalo during the forty years covered by the history of the Lake View Brewing Company has been little short of marvelous. It may in very truth be said that the eyes of the business and industrial world of America have been upon the Queen City of the Lakes, and the nation in general has been astonished at its tremendous growth. Greater as has been the growth of Buffalo, still greater has been the expansion of the Lake View Brewing Company. It now occupies a place pre-eminent among the breweries of the electric city.

Mr. Alois Schaefer, the founder of the brewery, conducted it with gratifying success for many years or until 1885 when the active management was taken over by his son, Philip C. Schaefer, who two years later succeeded entirely to the business and has since conducted it in a way to do credit both to the original founder and to the great and growing city of which the concern is so mean a part.

The annual output of the brewery, from a comparatively small figure, has been increased until there are 80,000 barrels of the pure, fine beer put upon the market every year.

The plant of the Lake View Brewing Company is one that not only presents a pleasing view from the exterior, but one that is also equipped with all the latest and most patented machinery for the manufacture of a pure beer, which is not only pleasant to the taste, but agreeable to the stomach as well, and conducive to good health on the part of the drinker.

The big plant is located in the corner of Lake View and Porter Avenues. This company's ales and porter are so popular that though the trade is almost a purely local one, nine wagons are constantly employed carrying the delicious beverages from the plant to the homes and saloons of the company's customers and consumers. All branches of the trade come under—home, saloon, hotel trade, are very large and so carefully is the business of the big establishment conducted that the concern enjoys a most enjoyable reputation among the banking institutions of Buffalo, for its solidity and financial trustworthiness.

Buffalo is said to be a cold city and personal popularity is said to be hard to attain. This may be so, but the best refutation that Mr. Schaefer has broken through the crust of Buffalo's chilliness, and enjoys to a marked degree the esteem, the good will, and the extreme popularity of his fellowmen. He is one man in a thousand; a good businessman, a pleasing companion and a most successful, enterprising business manager of a great business. He deserves, to the full, the great measure of success that has been his.