Industrial history of Milwaukee, the commercial, manufacturing and railway metropolis of the North-west : its great natural resources and advantageous location as a shipping point, with a review of its general business interests, including history of Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, statistical and descriptive, to which is added a series of sketches of the prominent places and people of the Cream City, the rise and progress of firms, institutions, and corporations . wer and Malster. THE drink known as Lager Beer wasprobably known in some form as farback as the time of the Egyptians, andTacitus s
Industrial history of Milwaukee, the commercial, manufacturing and railway metropolis of the North-west : its great natural resources and advantageous location as a shipping point, with a review of its general business interests, including history of Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, statistical and descriptive, to which is added a series of sketches of the prominent places and people of the Cream City, the rise and progress of firms, institutions, and corporations . wer and Malster. THE drink known as Lager Beer wasprobably known in some form as farback as the time of the Egyptians, andTacitus speaks of it as being in common passed by any other firm of the kindin the city. His brewery is in thetown of Wauwatosa, just west of thecity limits, and has been known since1878 as the Menomonee Valley Brew-ery. It was originally founded by and others, in 1848, and called the Plank Road Brewery, but after a fewyears the business failed and the prop-erty lay idle for over a year, when, in 1855,it was sold to Mr. Miller for $8, brewery then only had a capacity of1,200 barrels per annum. The plant oc-cupied by the numerous buildings nowconsists of eleven acres. The breweryhas one of the best locations of any inthe country for cellars, which are madein the large bluff, at the side of which thebrewery is located. They have a storagecapacity for over 15,000 barrels. Thelarge brewery now standing was built byMr. Miller in 1870. He has a large ice. MEMOMONEZ VALLEY BREV/ERY. use among the Germans of his time. Miller, the subject of this sketch,has been in the brewing and malting busi-ness for over thirty years, being classedamong the oldest representatives of thisindustry in the city, and by his experienceand liberal business policy has built up alarge and profitable trade. The bottledbeer of this brewery has a wide notoriety,as Mr. Miller never botdes any beer thatis not sufficiently old to give it the besttaste and flavor. It must be well fer-mented, and as
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