Lebanon Valley Brewing Company

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The Lebanon Valley Brewing Company was an American brewery in Lebanon , the 1856 founded and in 1959 was closed.

history

Establishment to company registration

The history of the Lebanon Valley Brewing Company begins with the founding of the Hartman Brewery on North 7th Street in Lebanon in 1852. The founder was the German emigrant Henry Hartman. Until it was officially registered as a Lebanon Brewing Company, the brewery was run by various entrepreneurs:

  • 1856 - 1871: Founding of the brewery and management by Henry Hartman.
  • 1871 - April 1, 1878: The brewery is bought and managed by John Yost Jr.
  • April 1, 1878 - October 23, 1878: The brewery is bought and managed by Christopher Ganster, renamed Lebanon Brewery .
  • October 23, 1878 - 1879: The brewery is rented and managed by Franz Anthony Seubert.
  • 1879 - February 11, 1881: Christopher Ganster takes over the management of the brewery.
  • February 11, 1881 - December 1, 1883: Purchase of the brewery and management by Moses R. Graeff and Sally Ann Graeff.
  • From December 1, 1883: purchase of the brewery and management by George C. Ehrhorn and Siegried Siebert.

In 1884 Siebert headed the brewery as president, George Ehrhorn took the position of manager. Three years later, the company was officially registered as the Lebanon Brewing Company .

Turn of the century to Prohibition

1893 marked another change of ownership and personnel for the company. Ehrhorn left the company to set up a brewery in York . H. Joseph Walters took over Ehrhorn's position as manager. The brewery's annual output at that time was around 7,000 barrels . In the same year, businessmen John W. Hartman and Henry L. Arnold took over the brewery and renamed it New Lebanon Brewing Company . Among them, the annual output was soon doubled.

Until the prohibition laws were passed in 1920, the New Lebanon Brewing Company produced export beer , cream ale and porter . Alcohol-reduced light beer ("near beer") was still produced until 1924, but brewing operations were then completely discontinued.

Reopening and decline

From July 1933, production was resumed under the new company name Lebanon Valley Brewing Company . Jacob Kozloff became the new president. Under him, the Lebanon Valley Brewing Company's highest annual output, 45,000 barrels, was achieved.

Under pressure from the American Federation of Labor to raise brewery workers' wages and the associated threat of labor strike, the Lebanon Valley Brewing Company was forced to close on March 15, 1959. All trademarks and rights of the brewery were bought by the Eagle Brewing Company , the equipment was sold elsewhere.

The brewery buildings were not demolished and can still be seen today.

literature

  • David G. Moyer (2009), American Breweries of the Past , Bloomington (Indiana): AuthorHouse, pp. 56–57 (English)

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