Chicago Breweries

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PRE-FIRE BREWERIES 1847-1871
Gottfried Brewing Company
Lill & Diversy’s Chicago Brewery
John A. Huck’s Brewery
Peter Schoenhofen Brewing Co.
Chicago Ale & Malt Co.
Downer & Bemis Brewing Co., McAvoy Brewing Co.
J. J. Sands’ Brewery
Busch & Brand’s Brewery Co.

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POST-FIRE BREWERIES 1872-1879
Conrad Seipp Brewing Co.

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GOLDEN AGE BREWERIES 1880-1899
F. J. Dewe’s Brewery Co.
Wacker & Birk Brewing and Malting Co.
United States Brewing Company
Bohemian (Atlas) Brewing Company
Independent Brewing Association

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PROHIBITION ERA 1920-1933
Prohibition Beer
End of Prohibition

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PRE-FIRE BREWERIES INDUSTRY REPORT

Chicago Evening Post, May 25, 1867

The list of the returns made to the Assessor of Internal Revenue of Chicago by the brewers of ale, beer, porter, etc., of this city and vicinity, from the 1st of May, 1866, to the 1st of May, 1867, shows that malt liquors to the amount of $217,016 barrels have been brewed during the year, on which a tax of a dollar per barrel has been paid. Of this amount one half was manufactured by five firms; viz: Lill’s Brewing Company, Seipp & Lehman, J. A.
Huck, Sands’ Ale Manufacturing Company, and H. B. Miller & Son.

The following is a list of brewers manufacturing more than 2,000 barrels each:
Brewers, Barrels
Binz & Laparle, 5,334
Bemis, Wicker & Co., 5,817
Baierle, A., 2,410
Busch & Brand, Chicago, 12,922
Busch & Brand, Calumet, 5,733
Chicago Ale and Malt Company, 6,838
Doyle & Bro., 6,094
Downer & Bewis, 6,557
Downer & Bemis Brewing Company, 5,175
Fortune, P., , & Bro.,3,202
Fleming & Dobson., 3,230
Gottfried & Schoenhofen, 5,663
Hassold & Zorn, 2,120
Hass & Powell, 4,512
Huck, J. A., 24,257
Lills’ Brewing Company, 36,746
Miller, H. B., & Son, 16,092
Mueller & Bro., 4,383
Metz, Geo., 3,480
Rehm & Bartholomae, 3,095
Seipp & Lehman, 26,057
Saladin, Wm., 5,303
Sands’ Ale Manufacturing Company, 20,881
Schmidt, K. G., 4,101
Schmidt, Katz & Leverenz, 3,995
Woelffer, Charles, 4,243
Wacker, Charles, 2.385

The smallest amount reported is by Vedell & Co., who manufactured twenty-six barrels-just three gallons a day. Lills’s company, on the other hand, reports a brewage of more than one hundred barrels for every one of the 365 days.

The whole amount is equivalent to about nine millions of gallons. This gives a barrel of malt liquor to every man, woman, child and baby in the city, -about three-quarters of a pint, or a big drink, each day. As the women and children drink very littie, and as there are some men who do not touch malt liquors, probably this ocean of sack is imbibed by not more than sixty thousand citizens.

This would give them nearly half a gallon apiece every day, which, certainly, ought to satisfy them. Of course, no such amount is consumed here. Thousands of barrels are exported monthly, and Chicago ale and beer may be fouad not only in the interior of this and the adjoining States, but all along the Missouri and Mississippi, from Omaha and St. Paul to the Gulf of Mexico. The value of this manufacture must be about $1,500,000.

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