Lemp Brewery In St. Louis: Makers Of Falstaff Beer

 

Lemp Brewery in St. Louis, Missouri
(color drawing after a photo in the St. Louis Star & Times. March 14, 1914)

The Lemps knew how to get their name in front of people. They put it on bottles, advertisements, and the side of a smokestack. By the 1870s, they ran the largest brewery in St. Louis.

 

Before all that, there was a grocery store.

 

Johann Adam Lemp came to St. Louis in 1838. He’d learned to brew in Germany and started making beer while running his store. The lager found customers. Enough of them that groceries stopped being the principal business.

 

The family claimed 1840 as the brewery’s founding year. Historians haven’t quite settled that, but records show brewing operations by 1841. Adam called it the Western Brewery and set up near the riverfront.

 

He had beer to make and a problem to solve.

 

Lager needed to stay cold while it aged. St. Louis got hot, and a brewer couldn’t leave barrels sitting through a Missouri summer and expect everything to turn out fine.

 

Adam used caves.

German-American Brewing Company 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)

The German-American Brewing Company's product has been an important factor in making Buffalo's beer famous. The company was incorporated under the laws of the State of New York in the year 1883 with a capital of $150,000—a sum ample to operate the immense plant and its various branches.

The officers of the company are: C. A. Strangmann, president; George Dittly, vice-president; John F. Nagel, secretary; Carl J. Weideman, treasurer.

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.