Peoples brewing - Terre Haute  

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bold letters in circle slug plate...Hand blown...applied Tooled Crown top...Aqua Blue Quart Private Mold ... with pictorial eagle shield monogram logo 11 3/8" Tall Green. Existed from 1905 till 1920. Principles in the company included Ralph Charles, N. Murphy, and John F. Hutchison. First brew was on May 18, 1905.


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EST: 1905
YEAR CLOSED: 1918
LOCATION: Terre Haute, IN (1st & Wilson Streets)
TRADE NAMES: Peoples Brewing Co. 1905-1918
Closed by State Prohibition in 1918

Made Spalter andBest beers beginning in 1906.

Frantz Brognlez superintendent brewmaster and a director of the People's Brewing Company of Terre Haute . Mr Brogniez in the following December (1904) to Terre Haute to take charge of the of the People's Brewing Company's plant which was completed under supervision and along his ideas The first brew was made on the of May 1905 and the first beer delivered to customers on the 31st July following The capacity of the plant at first was twenty five thousand barrels annually but it was not long before the company began increase the capacity and it now has an output of thirty six thousand barrels annually It is one of the largest plants of its kind in this part of the state

Henry C. Steeg,former mayor, president of the People's Brewing Company. He was also one of the organizers of the People's Brewing Company in1904 and in 1906 was made President.

People's Brewing Co. Terre Haute 1905-1920

This company came about by a large stock sale that raised $200,000. Frantz Brogniez from Belgium was the brewmaster, superintendent, the designer and supervised the construction of the brewery. He had previously built breweries in Lichterville, Belgium and Detroit's Tivoli Brewing in 1897.

People's employed 50 men. Henry C. Steeg, the former mayor of Terre Haute was the president. They made Celtic, Spalter, Bock and Special Brew beers until Prohibition when they tried to make a cereal beverage, Celto, that was not well received.

Brogniez went on to Houston's Magnolia Brewery and co-founded the Houston Symphony.

This company was organized in 1905 from the Terre Haute Distillery & Cattle Feeding Co.. which became the Wabash Distillery. a subsidiary of the American Spirits Manufacturing Company. Officers of the Peoples Brewing Co DOROTHY J. CLARK before it was closed by Prohibition were: Chas. Murphy, president; Geo. Terhorst, vice president; Alva Mooter, secretary; Mort Hidden, treasurer, and Albert Kampe, superintendent.

owned by: Judith E. Burns