Columbia Brewing Company - Logansport  

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dark Amber; Pint 9 1/4" Tall; Baltimore Loop Plate Mold; "7 - S" on back at heel; "A B Co" on base (American Bottle Co. Operated from 1894 - near prohibition. The blob top bottles as this was called was manufactured from 1880 till 1900; and may of been in use some time after this.


the bottle pictures is the original color as taken. For logo I have altered the gamma colors to try and bring out the logo to make it more visible and readable.

Columbia Brewing Co. Logansport 1866-1951

This brewery had gone through many hands before it became the Columbia Brewing Co. Owners had included August Frost, Jacob Huebner, John Mutscheler, Eugene Prager and Ferdinand Krebs. In 1894 it was bought by George Schmidt, and three brothers – Frank, August and William Binz who renamed it the Columbia Brewing Co. and brought in John N.C. Woefel from Rahau, Germany who was working at the Schoenhoffer brewery in Chicago to be the brewer. Woefel moved on to the Indiana Brewing Association of Marion in 1897.

After Prohibition the K.G. Schmidt Brewing Co. of Chicago bought the business and ran it until 1951.

owned by: Judith E. Burns