A Brief and incomplete History of Brewing in
Terre Haute, IndianaA Brief and incomplete History of Brewing in
Terre Haute, Indiana
Terre Haute Brewing Company (1)
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E. Bleemel Brewery Mathias Mogger Brewery Kaufmann & Mayer Terre Haute Brewing Company
1837 - 1918
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Chauncey Warren and Demas Deming, Sr.
started the Terre Haute Brewing Company in 1837 at 8th and Poplar Street.
Later this site was used by Earnest Bleemel's brewery until Mathias Mogger bought the business in 1848.
A. Kaufmann bought it in 1868 and it became Kaufmann & Mayer later that same year. Anton Mayer bought out Kaufmann in 1869. Renamed Terre Haute Brewing Company in 1889. (THBC existed in other guises from Bleemel's day until this time - see bottom of this web page). By the turn of the century, THBC was the 7th largest brewery in the US. Stables were a block away with 50 Clydesdales and Belgians delivering beer to the immediate area. Closed at the onset of prohibition. New president, Oscar Baur, reorganized THBC in 1934. Baur was a former Terre Hautean who returned to the city in 1933 with his brother, Jacob, specifically to re-start the brewery. He started the motto "The Beer with the Million Dollar Flavor" and for publicity insured the formula's secret for one million dollars. The Atlantic Brewing Company bought the assets in 1958 and operated it for one year. The Champagne Velvet brand name appeared in 1904. Other brands included 76 Ale, 20 Grand, Blackhawk, and Radium, Red Top. The CV trademark ended up with G Heilman (brewed in Evansville's Sterling Brewery), then Stroh, Schlitz, and Pabst. They ceased production of CV in the late 1960s. The name was bought back in 2000 at the new Terre Haute Brewery (below).
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Glick
| Glick
1854 - ???? |
George and Henry Glick built a brewery on the southwest corner of Water and Wabash Streets. It became the site of the Wabash Flour Mill. |
Peoples
| Peoples Brewing Company
1904 - ???? |
 Located on the bluff between
Water and S. First Streets on a site previously occupied by the home of
the Link family. This residence had been changed to a boarding house that
rented rooms to "organ grinders, rag pencil peddlers, itinerant musicians and miscellaneous street
hawkers". |
Terre Haute Brewing Company (2)
| Terre Haute Brewing Company
2000 - Present |
Brewpub. Founded by Mike Rowe
and Gary and Diane Richards in the same building as the old Terre Haute
Brewing Company.
Maintains and extensive museum about the original THBC at the original Bleemel building and have information on their web site.
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Others |
Crawford Fairbanks owned a
brewery in Terre Haute in 1889. He joined Tom Taggert and W.W. McDeal,
president of the Monon Railroad, in the formation of the French Lick
Springs Hotel Company.
The Vigo County Library Timeline of History states "By the time Prohibition became law in 1918, Terre Haute had seen 30 breweries open and close. Terre Haute's first brewery was opened by George Hager in 1835 at Outlet 23, but soon after was destroyed by fire." Imbrey's Brewery and John Bergholz's brewery were on the northwest corner of Seventh and Sycamore streets south of the Wabash & Erie Canal. Max Reesman's brewery was north of the canal and south of the railroad on North Seventh Street. Albert Hertwig's brewery was at the corner of Eighth and Poplar streets before 1860. Terre Haute Brewing Co., owned by Fred Fiyh, Coelstein Kinzle and Theodore Kristers in the 1870s and early 1880s, was at the southwest corner of First and Ohio streets
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Copyright 2004, Bob Ostrander
