Home Brewing Company  

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Approximately 9 1/4" tall - dark Amber - fancy H B CO with wreaths and hand holding fancy beer glass/pictorial torch. By 1880 - 1920. August Hook was one of the organizers of HBC and was the president until his death on Dec 10, 1909


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.

Home Brewing Co. ndianapolis 1891-1920

The Home Brewery was organized with $200,000 capital from ninety local stockholders. August Hook from Viernhelm, Germany was one of these and the vice president and director of operations until dying of pneumonia in 1909 at age sixty. Before coming to Indianapolis he was the brewmaster at the Lackmann Brewery in Cincinnati.

Other officers were William P. Jungclaus, Andrew Hagen, Christian W. Waterman, Rudolph Schaeffer, and Adolph Schmidt.

They tried to stay open during Prohibition making Homo non-alcoholic beer but could not make a profit. The building still stands on the south side of Washington Street at Shelby Street. A carved block reading “Bottling House” can be seen on the north side

owned by: Judith E. Burns