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Frederick Lauer's Brewery
| Firmenname | Frederick Lauer's Brewery |
| Ortssitz | Reading (Pennsylvania) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Brauerei |
| Anmerkungen | - |
| Quellenangaben | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 81] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1826 |
Gründung durch den Vater von Frederick Lauer, der aus Gleissweiler bei Landau (Pfalz) einwanderte. |
| 1831 |
Die Herstellung von Ale und Porter beginnt. |
| 1835 |
Übernahme der Brauerei durch Frederick Lauer, dem Sohn des Gründers |
| 1862 |
Die Brauer der USA bilden eine Vereinigung zum gegenseitigen Schutz und zur Förderung ihrer Interessen; in der ersen und in den folgenden Zusammenkünften "Brewers' Congress", die sie abhalten, wird Fr. Lauer zum präsidierenden Beamten ernannt. |
| 1864 |
F. Lauer erhält auf der Sitzung des "Brewers' Congress" in Milwaukie, Wisconsin, ein silbernes Teeservice und einen Spazierstock mit Goldkopf im Werte von $1.600. |
| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | The main building is of brick, three stories high, having a front of one hundred feet, and a depth of one hundred and fifty feet, with a garden attached that occupies the entire remaining portion of a block four hundred by two hundred and forty feet. The cellars underneath are arched, and in them are four springs of excellent water, having a remarkable flow, which is forced by means of a steam pump into reservoirs, and used for brewing fine Ales. An engine of thirty horsepower propels the machinery, elevates the barley and malt, and works the apparatus in the mash tuns. The Brewery is provided with all the necessary puncheons, refrigerators, fermenting tuns, etc., usual in such establishments, and has a capacity for producing forty-five thousand barrels of malt liquors annually. The fermenting tuns will hold about thirty thousand gallons. Under the Brewery are vaults capable of storing two thousand barrels; but which are used only for racking and storing the liquor that is intended for immediate consumption. Attached to the Brewery is a malt house, which it is proposed to enlarge at an early day. Besides the garden already mentioned, which contains a fountain and a fish-pond that is supplied with water from springs in the Brewery, Mr. Lauer, adopting the Russian or Berlin system, has a park of six acres of ground with a handsomely fitted up, shaded house, having a veranda its entire length, and an observatory from which a fine view of the city can be had. Here are vaults quarried from solid limestone rock, for storing Stock Ale, Brown Stout, and Lager Beer, and having a capacity for storing seven thousand barrels. Here, also, is an artesian well, which has attained a depth of two thousand feet, and though unfinished, has already cost 22.000. The water obtained from it is said to possess superior medicinal properties; but it is proposed to prosecute operations until a fountain of spouting water is obtained. This Brewery was established in 1826, by the father of the present proprietor, who emigrated to this country in 1823, from Gleissweiler, near the Fortress Landau, in the Palatine. Its entire capacity in the beginning was not more than seven barrels a day, and for several years nothing was brewed here but what is known as the ordinary strong beer. In 1831, the brewing of ale and porter was commenced, and four years subsequently, the business passed into the hands of the son, Frederick Lauer, a man noted for his remarkable industry and untiring energy, who, when the Brewery was in its infancy, rose every morning at two o'clock, and finished the brewing by daybreak, and who even now has not abandoned his habit of early rising. In 1862, the Brewers of the United States formed an association for mutual protection and the advancement of their interests; and in the first and subsequent meetings which they held, designated the "Brewers' Congress", Mr. Lauer was chosen as their presiding officer, and so successfully discharged the duties entrusted to him that, in the session held at Milwaukie, Wisconsin, in 1864, he was presented with a silver tea service and a gold-headed cane, worth 1.600. In 1865, when it was resolved to send a commission to Europe for the purpose of ascertaining what the experience of other countries had demonstrated to be just and equitable in taxing malt liquors without injuring the manufacture or diminishing the consumption, Mr. Lauer was selected as one of three, more especially to report upon the Excise laws of the German States. This Brewery, is now the third in the State of Pennsylvania in the amount of its production, and among the first in the reputation of its products for excellence in quality. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 81] |
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