Frederick Miller
Frederick Miller (born November 24, 1824 in Riedlingen , Württemberg as Friedrich Eduard Johannes Müller ; † May 11, 1888 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA ) was the founder of the American Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee.
Frederick Miller was born in Riedlingen and began working as a master brewer in neighboring Sigmaringen at a young age . In 1849, Karl Anton Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , the last ruler of the Hohenzollern ancestral land before it was incorporated into Prussia, appointed him to the Hohenzollern court brewery in Sigmaringen.
Frederick Miller married his wife Josephine in Friedrichshafen on June 7, 1853 and emigrated to the United States a year later.
In 1855 he brewed his first beer in the "Old Watertown Plank Road Brewery" according to a German recipe in the USA and founded the Miller Brewery there in the same year.
In 1888 Frederick Miller died of cancer in Milwaukee.
The yeast strain of all Miller beers is still today the yeast strain of the Hohenzollern court brewery in Sigmaringen .
Today the brewery is no longer in family ownership. The company, which had long been run by the tobacco company Philip Morris , was taken over by the South African Breweries in 2002.
Since 2008 you can get the original Miller Genuine Draft in Germany, which is produced with the cold-filtered process.
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| SURNAME | Miller, Frederick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Founder of the US Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riedlingen , Baden-Wuerttemberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1888 |
| Place of death | Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA |