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Sold under the name Petritz, the beer was produced in Chicago and bottled in the Rockford buildings. One of his partners, Samuel Hirsch, bought out the other partners in 1937 and changed the name to the Rock River Brewing Company. Producing Coronet Old Vat and Grand Prize beers, the brewery finally came to a closure in 1945.
The Peter Schoenhofen Brewing Company was an American brewery established in 1861 by Peter Schoenhofen and Matheus Gottfried in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The company is notable for producing and selling the popular Edelweiss brand of American beer [2] and the Green River brand soft drink. [3]
The Peter Hand Brewing Company was an American brewery established in 1891 by Prussian immigrant and American Civil War veteran Peter Hand in Chicago, Illinois.The company is notable for popularizing the light beer recipe it would later sell to Miller Brewing, which thereafter rebranded it "Light Beer from Miller", and, ultimately, Miller Lite. [1]
In 2025 they started brewing their own beer at Diversey House in Chicago, along with Steep Ravine Brewing Company. [99] The Red Barn Restaurant and Brewery, Mount Prospect, opened in 2018. [425] The beer is brewed at Wild Onion in Lake Barrington. Saint Errant Brewing was founded in Chicago in 2016. The beer is brewed at Mikerphone in Elk Grove ...
In 2024, a brewpub in Lombard, Illinois offered cicada-infused Malört shots (similar to the proverbial mezcal worm in tequila) with the prominent Chicago area 17-year-periodical insect. [ 25 ] While Malört is sometimes mistaken for the common name of the style of liquor, the word is the trademarked brand name owned by Carl Jeppson Company. [ 26 ]
Goose Island Beer Company is a brewery in Chicago. The oldest currently-operating brewing company in Illinois , it began as a brewpub that opened in 1988 in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, and was named after a nearby island .
At first glance, beer prices in the 1950s look low — especially when measured in 2023 dollars — but after adjusting prices for inflation, a six-pack of beer back then cost almost 50 percent ...
Canfield's 50/50 was a grapefruit- and lime-flavored soft drink [7] [8] [9] In the late 1980s-early 1990s the 50/50 soft drink brand was bottled at Laurel Packaging, Inc. (now Pepsi Bottling Group), Johnstown, PA, and was distributed by the Will G. Keck Corporation (Kecksburg, PA) and also by D & M Management, Inc. (Davidsville, PA), an independent beverage distribution firm, in the West ...