| Missouri, U.S.A. |
St. Louis Brauerei:
Opening Day Bevo Mill Restaurant and Beer Garden
| You can not address the Maurer & Schilly, and even the Morgan, family histories without mentioning Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company. My Grandpa John A. Maurer, SR. and Great Uncle Ben Schilly, Great Grandpa Joseph Schilly, SR., and Great Grandpa Johann Franz Maurer all worked for Anheuser-Busch. Grandpa Maurer also worked for Griesedieck Brothers. |
| St. Louis Brewery History: Once one of the largest breweries in St. Louis, Griesedieck Brothers sponsored radio broadcasts of the St. Louis Cardinals and the old St. Louis Browns games in the years before Anheuser-Busch purchased the Cardinals. Harry Caray, host of the sports program, reminded listeners the initials GB meant “good beer.” Johann Henrich Griesedieck opened the family’s first brewery in Westphalia, Germany. Within eight years after descendants Anton and Heinrich immigrated to St. Louis in 1869, they acquired two local breweries and founded the A. Griesedieck Brewery Co. In 1911 Heinrich purchased the Consumers Brewery and named it Griesedieck Brothers for his sons: Anton, Henry, Raymond, Robert and Edward. After Prohibition ended, three branches of the family went head-to-head in the St. Louis beer market. The Griesedieck Brothers ran their brewery; Anton’s son, “Papa” Joe Griesedieck, produced the Falstaff line; and another family member, Henry L. Griesedieck, brewed Stag beer in Belleville. “Griesedieck Brothers was always known as the beer with the funny name.” By 1937, its brewery at Shenandoah and Lemp avenues was known as the most modern brewery in St. Louis, and its product was regarded as one of the hometown’s most popular brews. By 1950 the company sold nearly a million barrels a year. Henry A. Griesedieck, was the final president of the company before it was bought out by Falstaff in 1957. Falstaff closed in St. Louis in 1977. |
| Lemp Saga: The Lemp saga began with the birth of Johann Adam Lemp on 25 May, 1793, in Gruningen, in the German province of Hesse, a part of central Germany. Adam Lemp, as he preferred to be called, had learned the brewer's trade as a youth in Eschwege, and went out to become a master brewer in the cities of Gruningen and Eschwege, both in Hesse. His father, Wilhelm Christoph Lemp, had been a master cooper and church warden. Following many of his countrymen, Adam sailed to America in 1836. After spending time in Cincinnati, Adam moved further west to St. Louis in 1838, where he established a small mercantile, or grocery store at what is now Delmar and 6th Street. In addition to the general merchandise that was sold in mercantile stores of this era, Lemp also sold in small quantities two additional items he manufactured himself: vinegar and beer. Apparently, Adam saw a greater future in manufacturing, because after two years he established a new factory at 112 South Second Street between Walnut and Elm Streets. The new plant was built to produce both beer and vinegar, a common manufacturing practice at the time. For the first few years, Adam Lemp sold his beer in a public house, or to use the more popular term, pub, which was attached to the brewery. Between 1842 and 1845, the growing popularity of Lemp's beer was great enough to allow him to discontinue vinegar production, and concentrate on beer brewing only. While 1840 was the date usually given by the William J. Lemp Brewing Company for the founding of the enterprise, the actual date that Adam Lemp began brewing beer in commercial quantities, and in particular lager beer, is in doubt. One source on the industrial history of the area gives the date as 1838. It is certainly possible that he carried the lager yeast with him, since he arrived in 1836 from Germany last employed in a brewery. This would beat the Philadelphia claim as the site of the first U.S. industrial brewery by two years. |
| Budweiser beer is named after a Czech town In the mid-1800s, Eberhard Anheuser was a successful manufacturer of soap and candles in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. In 1859, he financed a loan to a struggling neighbourhood brewery called The Bavarian Brewery, which was started by George Schneider in 1852. When the brewery faltered again in 1860, Anheuser and a partner, William O'Dench, bought the interests of minority creditors rather than see the brewery go under. They reorganised the company and resumed production under the name E. Anheuser & Company. The partnership In 1857, the 18-year old Adolphus Busch, the second youngest of 22 children, immigrated to the United States from Hesse, Germany to join his 3 brothers in St. Louis. Although his brother had started the John B. Busch Brewing Company in Washington, Missouri, Adolphus opted to enter into a partnership with Ernst Wattenberg to sell brewing supplies. It was through this business that Adolphus met his wife, whose father would be his future partner. Adolphus Busch and Lily Anheuser married in 1861. In 1865, the two beer companies merged, with Adolphus as equal partner with Eberhard Anheuser. Budweiser beer In 1876, Busch and his friend Carl Conrad, a liquor importer, developed a "Bohemian-style" lager, inspired after a trip to the region. Brewers in Bohemia generally named a beer after their town with the suffix "er." Beers produced in the town of Plzen, for example, were called Plzners, or Pilsners. Busch and Conrad had visited another town, only 104 km (65 miles) south of Plzenalso, known for its breweries: Bömische Budweis, which became Ceske Budejovice in 1918. Beer has been brewed in Ceske Budejovice since it was founded as Budiwoyz by king Premys II Otakar in 1245. The German name for the town is Budweis. The name "Budweiser" is a locative, meaning "of Budweis." The beer recipes from Budweis were carried around the world - including by Busch and Conrad - and in the late 1800s there were several breweries producing beers called Budweiser. Miller and Schlitz both produced Budweisers but, as the name became so strongly associated with Anheuser-Busch, they stopped it. In the US the last other Budweiser producer was DuBois Brewing, which stopped making the brand only in the late 1970s. The American Bud Busch and Conrad introduced "Budweiser Lager Beer" in St. Louis, brewed by E. Anheuser Co.'s Brewing Association, and bottled and distributed by Carl Conrad. The Anheuser company was renamed Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association in 1879, and Adolphus became president the following year, a position he was to hold for 33 years. On 24 January 1883, Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association acquired the rights in the U.S. to bottle and sell Budweiser. In 1919, the company was renamed Anheuser-Busch, the name by which it is known today. In 1997, the Anheuser-Busch annual worldwide beer volume exceeded 100 million barrels, confirming its position as the world's largest brewer. The Bud battle In 1895, almost 20 years after Busch's Budweiser was first brewed, a Bohemian company called Budejovicky Pivovar started making a beer known as Budvar, a shortened version of the brewery name. It was exported under the name Budweiser Budvar, being from Budweis. The golden rule in business is that the one with the gold rules. Well, usually. In the battle for the Budweiser brand name there has not been a victor. A legal battle between the Buds has raged for years. According to EU regulations, a locative can be registered as a trademark only by a manufacturer residing at that place. Thus, according to EU regulations, the Czech beer is the legal bearer of the trademark "Budweiser", or "Budejovicky." But that's not the only claim. According to the German "Reinheitsgebot" (Beer Purity Regulations), the Annheuser-Busch Budweiser cannot be considered as beer because rice is used in the production process. According to the Beer Purity Regulations, beer can only be brewed from [barley] malt, hops and beer. (Wheat beers are called "weizens" in German.) Germany forbade the use of word "Bud" as trademark on everyone; the court ruled it was too close to "Bit" which the domestic Bitburger brewery uses as its trademark. The oldest brewery in the town of Ceske Budejovice (Budweis) is Budweiser Burgerbrau, founded in 1795, and by far the most "original" of the claimants over the name Budweiser. The main brand of Budweiser Burgerbrau (Budejovice Burghers' Brewery) is Samson, still brewed as both light and dark lager beer, bearing the labels Budweiser Bier and Budejovicky Pivo. It is said Samson was the model for Augustus Busch for his brew. Budweiser Burgerbrau has claimed they have the right to the trademark "Budweiser" on the basis they were the oldest brewery of the German-speaking burghers of Budweis. They insist that Budejovicky Budvar was the brewery of the Czech-speakers, who thus only have the right to the trademark "Budejovicky". Wasssup! The Budweisers from Budejovice has been called "The Beer of Kings" since the 16th century. Adolphus Busch is said to have turned the slogan around to "The King of the Beers". The Czech Budweiser is imported all around Europe, sold in some countries as "Budejovicky Budvar" but known as Budweiser. In Europe it is still known as the original Budweiser. In the US and elsewhere the Anheuser-Busch Budweiser remains, if not the king of beer tastes, the king of beer sales. http://www.didyouknow.cd/anheuser.htm |
| St. Louis Brauerei: It has been estimated that at one time during the mid nineteenth century St. Louis had anywhere from 40 to 53 breweries. Possibly the earliest brewed beer in St. Louis was concocted by a John Coons, a few years after 1804, when the territory was purchased by the United States. By 1810 one of St. Louis' original French residents, Jacques St. Vrain, a former officer of the Spanish government, opened the St. Vrain Brewery. But beer production and consumption did not really become popular until waves of German immigrants reached St. Louis. ('brauerei', being German for 'brewery') • American Brewing Co. • Anheuser Busch Brewing Co. • Anthony & Kuhn Brewing Co. • Arsenal Brewing Co. • Bavarian Brewing Co. • Bremen Brewing Co. • Bresser Henry Brewing Co. • Brinckwirth-Nolker Brewing Co. • Cherokee Brewing Co. • Chouteau Ave. Brewing Co. • City Brewery (owned by James and William Finney) • Columbia Brewing Co. • Consumer's Brewing Co. • Empire Brewing Co. • Excelsior Brewing Co. (1876-1889, absorbed into St. Louis Brewing Assoc.) • Falstaff Brewing Co. (arises from the former Griesedieck Beverage Corp.) Logo/Name purchased in 1920 from the Lemp family. • Forest Park Brewing Co. (purchased by Griesedieck Beverage Company) • Fulton Brewing Co. also known as Wainwright Brewing Company (owned by Ellis Wainwright) • Gast Brewing Co. • Green Tree Brewing Co. (absorbed into the St. Louis Brewery Assoc.) • Griesedieck Beverage Co. (reorganized in 1920 as the Falstaff Corporation) • Grone Brewery Co. (absorbed into the St. Louis Brewery Assoc.) • Heim Brewing Co., East St. Louis, Illinois • Home Brewing Co. • Hyde Park Brewing Co. • Klausman Brewing Co. (absorbed into the St. Louis Brewery Assoc..) • Lemp Brewery (William J. Lemp Brewing Co, formerly Western Brewing Co.) Falstaff name and logo purchased in 1920 by reorganized brewery of the former Griesedieck Corp. • Liberty Brewing Co. • National Brewery Co. • Phoenix Brewing Co. • Reliance Brewing Co. • St. Louis Brewing Association (owned by 1st: John Philipson, 2nd: John Mullanphy, 3rd: Isaac McHose and Ezra English) • St. Vrain Brewery • Schnaider Brewery and Beer Gardens • Schorr-Kolkschneider Brewing Co. • Schroeder's Berliner Weiss Bier Co. • Star Brewery Co. • Stumpf Brewery • Chas. G. Stifel Brewing Co. • Union Brewing Co. • Wainwright Brewing Co. (absorbed by St. Louis Brewing Association) • Western Brewing Co. (later renamed, William J. Lemp Brewing Co) • Witteman-Rost Brewing Co. The outlaw of alcoholic beverages, called "Prohibition" in 1919 was disastrous for St. Louis breweries. Hundreds of people were laid off of work and breweries had to try to survive until the prohibition law could be repealed. For example, Falstaff made brewer's yeast and Busch produced non-alcoholic beverages, like "near beer". In the meantime, prohibitionist in the city were happy. One prohibitionist song, "John Barley Corn Good- bye" was published in 1919 by John Stark in St. Louis. But with St. Louis being a beer city, alcohol consumption did not die with prohibition. Instead it went underground with bootleg wine, beer or whiskey. Most it was produced in small quantities in resident's cellars, but larger quantities were peddled by organized crime. This black market ended with the repeal of prohibition on April 7, 1933, a day when St. Louis' taverns were packed to capacity. |
('brauerei', being German for 'brewery')
| Eberhard Anheuser (1805 Bad Kreuznach - May 2, 1880) was a soap and candle maker as well as the father-in-law of Adolphus Busch, the founder of the Anheuser-Busch Company. He and 2 of his brothers moved to America in 1842. He was a major creditor of the Bavarian Brewery Company, a struggling brewery founded in 1853. When the company encountered financial difficulty in 1860 he purchased the minor creditors' interests and took over the company. Eberhard Anheuser became president and CEO and changed the company name to the Eberhard Anheuser and Company. His daughter Lilly married Adolphus Busch, a brewery supply salesman, in a double wedding with Anna Anheuser (Lilly's older sister) and Ulrich Busch (Adolphus' brother) in 1861. The company became Anheuser-Busch in 1879. |
| Colonel Adolphus Busch (July 10, 1839 – October 10, 1913) was the cofounder of Anheuser-Busch with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser. He was born in 1839 in Kastel, Germany (now Mainz-Kastel, Wiesbaden, Germany). He was one of twenty one siblings. The family worked in winery and brewery supplies. He attended the Collegiate Institute of Belgium, and left his home in 1857 with three of his brothers for St. Louis, Missouri. His first job in St. Louis was working as a clerk in the commission house. He married Lilly Eberhard Anheuser on March 7, 1861 in St. Louis. Lilly was the daughter of Eberhard Anheuser (1805-1880). They had the following children: Adolphus Busch II; August Anheuser Busch I; Carl Busch; and five daughters. During the US Civil War he served in the US Army for 14 months. It was at this time that he learned that his father had died and that he had inherited a portion of his father's estate. He used the money to start a wholesale brewer's supply store, and four years later he bought a share in the Bavarian brewery from Eberhard Anheuser, his father-in-law. The company was first called Anheuser and Company, but at the death of Eberhard Anheuser in 1880, it was changed to Anheuser Busch Company. He died in 1913 while on vacation in Langenschwalbach, Germany (now Bad Schwalbach, Germany). |
Heims of East St. Louis
Griesedieck Brewery
Falstaff Brewery
| Anthony & Kuhn Brewery, St. Louis, Missouri Excelsior Brewery, St. Louis, Missouri Chouteau Ave. Brewery, St. Louis, Missouri Heim Brewing Co., East St. Louis, Illinois Liberty Brewing Co., St. Louis, Missouri |
| The Bevo Mill is located at the main intersection in the neighborhood -- Gravois, Morganford and Delor. The area received its name from this landmark. In 1915 Augusts Busch chose a spot exactly halfway between the brewery and Grant's Farm, his home. Mr. Busch used the beautiful Mill Room as his private dining room for many years, while the remainder of the restaurant was opened to the public in 1917. Bevo Mill is a high class German restaurant that served great food for the whole family and featured a low-alcohol beer by the same name. Bevo is derived from the Bohemian pivo which means beer. |
| Beverage products Anheuser-Busch brews over 40 different beers and malt liquors. • Budweiser Family Budweiser Bud Light Budweiser Select Bud Dry Bud Ice Bud Ice Light • The Michelob Family Michelob Michelob Light Michelob Ultra Michelob Ultra Amber Michelob Honey Lager Michelob AmberBock Michelob Golden Draft Michelob Golden Draft Light • Busch Family Busch Busch Light Busch Ice • The Natural Family Natural Light Natural Natural Ice • Specialty Beers Bud Extra Bare Knuckle Stout Anheuser World Lager ZiegenBock Redbridge (gluten-free) Rolling Rock • Non-alcohol O'Doul's O'Doul's Amber Busch NA • Energy Drinks 180 Blue 180 Sport Drink 180 Energy • Specialty Organic Beers Stone Mill Pale Ale Wild Hop Lager • Specialty Malt Beverages Bacardi Silver PEELS Spykes Tequiza TILT • Malt Liquors Hurricane Malt Liquor Hurricane Ice King Cobra In addition to brewing beer, Anheuser-Busch also is responsible for the import into the United States of: • Grolsch • Harbin Lager • Tiger Beer • Kirin Now Anheuser-Busch produce as many products as there were once brewed by the Brauerei in St. Louis. |
| International breweries Overseas, Anheuser-Busch operates 15 breweries - 14 in China and one in the United Kingdom; In China, A-B operates Budweiser Wuhan International Brewing Company, Ltd. and Harbin Brewery Group Ltd which A-B fully acquired in 2004. Chinese production of AB products in China started, in Wuhan, after their purchase of a local brewery in 1997. In the United Kingdom, the Budweiser Stag Brewing Company Ltd. produces and packages Budweiser. Budweiser is also locally brewed in eight countries outside the Unites States. They are: Argentina, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Korea and Spain. Anheuser-Busch strategic equity investments include: • 49% of Grupo Modelo in Mexico • 27% of Tsingtao Brewery Company Ltd. in China • 30% of craft beer Redhook Ale Brewery • An equity stake in Widmer Brothers Brewery As of 2006, almost 1/3 of the Anheuser-Busch workforce can fluently speak Mandarin and English, to streamline production. |
| Anheuser-Busch and the St. Louis Cardinals The St. Louis Cardinals baseball team was owned by Anheuser-Busch from the mid 1950s until it was sold to a group of private investors in March 1996. Busch Memorial Stadium, paid for and built by the brewery in the early 1960s, was recently demolished and replaced by a new ballpark. Anheuser-Busch signed an agreement for the new ballpark to retain the "Busch Stadium" name on the new building through 2025. |
| Michael Warren Maurer, John A. Maurer IV, and John A. Maurer III visiting Anheuser-Busch in December 2006 (back to the roots, I mean taps) |
| LIMBURGER CHEESE AND ONION SANDWICH (with optional variations using liverwurst, or sardines) Limburger originated in Belgium but is usually associated with the Germans and Swiss, who layer the aged, surface-ripened cheese with dark bread, onions, and horseradish or mustard in a hearty sandwich. A Swiss immigrant named Rudolph Benkert cured the first Green County Limburger in his home cellar in 1867. The following year Nicholas Gerber, another Swiss immigrant, established the first Limburger factory in the area. Taverns all over the county were soon serving the potent cheese with locally-brewed beer, a combination patrons relished so much that when saloons closed during Prohibition, Limburger sales went into decline. San Francisco sheet music publisher Louis von der Mehden was also a composer. In "Mine Leedle Yawcob Straus" (1878), he has fun with the German immigrant father of little Jacob. Five verses of dialect end with "I somedimes dink I go vild mit sooch a grazy poy." Other verses mention beer, kraut, and Limburger cheese. Chalet Cheese Co-op in Monroe, Wisconsin is the only cheese factory in the United States that still makes the notoriously odd-smelling limburger variety of cheese. |
| My dad ate it out of jars that had a picture of a Moose Head on the label...His nickname from his grade school friends was Moose as a result of his eating habits. |
| A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon. |
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Limburger cheese is the only known weakness of Mighty Mouse.
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