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The Falstaff Brewing Corporation was an American brewery located in St. Louis, Missouri. With roots in the 1838 Lemp Brewery of St. Louis, the company was renamed after the Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff in 1903. Production peaked in 1965 with 7,010,218 barrels brewed and then dropped 70 percent in the next 10 years. [1]
Watercolor painting by Anna Maria von Phul, "A View of a Cave, 2 Miles from St. Louis, Missouri Territory", 1818. The Caves of St. Louis have been important in the economic development of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The city was built upon a complex of natural caves which were once used for the lagering of beer by early German immigrant ...
The Lemp Brewery was a beer brewing company established in 1840 in St. Louis, Missouri that was acquired by the Griesedieck Beverage Company in 1920, which subsequently became the Falstaff Brewing Corporation. [1] [2] The brewery complex property consists of 27 buildings on a 13.7-acre (0.055 km 2) site in the Marine Villa neighborhood. St.
German immigrant Anton Griesedieck brought his family brewing tradition (dating from 1766 in Stromberg, Germany) to St. Louis in about 1866.He owned a series of breweries, employing his four sons, including Henry Jr. and Joseph "Papa Joe", and nephew Henry L. Griesedieck, who would later found Griesedieck Western Brewery Co. [1] The four sons established the National Brewery Co. in 1891, which ...
In 2006, he published A New Religion in Mecca: Memoir of a Renegade Brewery in St. Louis (Virginia Publishing), which recounted the founding of the Saint Louis Brewery. [3] He is also an attorney, working as a partner [4] in the St. Louis office of Thompson Coburn. He is a nephew of St. Louis conservative commentator Phyllis Schlafly. [5]
In a 2013 poll, Ratebeer.com listed Founders as the 3rd best brewery in the world overall; [28] Founders was 2nd place in 2011 and 2012. [29] In April 2010, Founders won four medals at the World Beer Cup in Chicago, Illinois, [30] and the brewery went on to win two more medals at Denver's Great American Beer Festival in September of that year. [31]
Wainwright was born on August 3, 1850, and although the family hailed from Godfrey, Illinois, he grew up in nearby St. Louis, where he also spent much of his adult life. [1] [3] The son of a prominent brewer and building contractor, an English immigrant named Samuel and Catherine Dorothy, Wainwright was an important figure in railway development in the region. [4]
St Louis 2016 Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant: Brewpub: Kansas City: Kansas City Great Escape Beer Works [31] Microbrewery Springfield: Springfield: 2018 Griesedieck Brothers beer: Contract: St. Louis: St. Louis Heavy Riff Brewing [32] Microbrewery St. Louis St. Louis 2013 Hold Fast Brewing [33] Microbrewery Springfield: Springfield: 2019 ...