"The Huntingburg Brewing Company, Huntingburg, c. 1895. The brewing company first opened in 1894 at First and Main Streets under the ownership of Andreas and Henry Fritch and Charles and Henry Moenkhaus. Two year laser, Charles Moenkhaus, who also owned the St. George Hotel, was the sole owner. The brewery's specialty was common or cream beer, which was two percent alcohol. Though the brewery hit hard times during Prohibition, according to Christine Prior, executive director of the Huntingburg Chamber of Commerce, moonshiners flourished, producing 'Dubois Dew' " - Jasper and Huntingburg by Ron Flick and Jane Ammeson, 2005

"During prohibition we made thousands of barrel shaped beer steins for Blatz and Sterling for promoting the sale of their malt extract which was used in the making of "home brew". They gave a mug with each purchase. This business of course ended with prohibiition, as did our 1 gal. jug business with the local bootleggers who would come to our plant and haul them away by the truck load and carload. We never asked any questions, just took their money." The History of the UHL Pottery Company,  O.I. Lett, Huntingburgh.

"Habig Brewery, Jasper, c. 1905. Edward A Hochgesang, the local brick manufacturer and masonry contractor, purchased an existing brewery soon after the end of the Civil War. From October of 1860 to November of the following year, Hochgesang built a new brick brewery building on the lot bounded by Eleventh and Twelfth Streets and Main and Jackson Streets. In 1884, after Mr. Hochgesang's death, his widow, the former Cecilia Habig, sold the business to her brother, Anton Habig, and his brother-in-law and partner, Martin Eckstein. The brewery was known as the Excelsior Brewery during this time period, and the fine-quality beer it produced was labeled 'Jasper Common Draft Beer." In the decades that followed, the business was passed down to Anton's son, Frank. Later, the Jasper Public Library was constructed on the site (Photograph courtesy of the Habig family" - Jasper and Huntingburg by Ron Flick and Jane Ammeson, 2005

"In their numerous industries, the ingenious Harmonists availed themselves of various sources of power. Most singular and spectacular - indeed, almost unique in that region in their day - were the steam engine that operated their cotton mill and, later, their threshing machine. . . From our modern point of view, more unusual than either of these sources of power was a large dog that walked a treadwheel on a platform twelve feet above the floor of the brewery, pumping water for the brew. Big as this dog was, he must have been spelled by another like him from time to time, for the Harmonist brewery produced five hundred gallons a day.- "The Angel and the Serpent" by William E. Wilson by IU Press, 1984.

"F. Rapp will always have on hand and for sale the first quality of STRONG BEER by the barrel, at Harmonie, Indiana. Western Sun -Vincennes, April 30, 1819.

"The pioneer breweries early opened by Reis and Endebruck and by Peter Schreck were not long in existence, but the business established in 1858 by Charles Becker and Alois Beuter has gone on as the Tell City Brewery up to the present Beuter withdrawing after one year's partnership.

Common beer was brewed at first, but since the erection, in 1870, of a three-story brick building at a cost of $3,000, the product has been lager beer of a quality not inferior to the Milwaukee or St. Louis article, whose widespread sale has done its part in adding to the fame of Tell City." - Perry County by Tomas James De la Hunt, 1916

"Frederick Voelke, proprietor of Tell City Brewery, is a native of Cassel, Prussia (now Germany), born August 30, 1832. He is the eldest child in a family of three daughters and two sons born to Frederick and Christine (Gebhardt) Voelke. The father, who was a brewer, followed the business in his native country until 1848, when he came to the United States, and worked in the glass works at Pittsburgh two years. In 1850 he came to Troy, Ind., and engaged in the brewery business, which he followed until his retirement in 1856. In that year (Frederick Jr.) took charge of this father's brewery at Troy, and in 1861 built the establishment which he has since conducted at Tell City." - History of Warrick, Spencer and Perry Counties, Indiana - Troy Township & Tell City" by Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885

"A Richmond correspondent of the News discovered that the honor of the "first" brewery in the State belonged to Richmond, having been established there in 1827. Mrs. Nora C. Fretagest, librarian of New Harmony raises an objection to this claim in behalf of New Harmony. She is right. Among my notes from the Western Sun I find an advertisement as follows:

F. Rapp will always have on hand and for sale the first quality of STRONG
BEER by the barrel, at Harmonie, Indiana. April 30, 1819.

Another advertisement from the Western Sun, March 21, 1818, reads as follows:

J. and W. L. Coleman announce that they have erected a large brewery and are in the market for 2,000 bushels of barley and wheat, fifty cents per pound will be paid for hops. Draft, Porter, and strong beer furnished by the barrel or half barrel for home use, or in large quantities for export.

The Colemans lived at Vincennes. As a matter of fact inhabitants of Vincennes were not only making but consuming quantities, of beer before the settlers of either Richmond or New Harmonie were born." - Indiana Magazine of History - March, 1914

"The Eagle Brewery was built about 1860, by John Ebner. It had a capacity of 4,000 barrels per annum, but has since been increased to 18,000. The product of this brewery is shipped over a circuit of 100 miles around Vincennes."

"JOHN EBNER was born in (Alsace, France), June 8, 1817. He was reared in his native land and secured a common German and French education. ... In 1846 he came to the United States and worked at the baker's trade in New Orleans three months, then in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he soon engaged in steamboating on the Ohio River two years. In the spring of 1849 he came to Vincennes, and after laboring long enough to acquire some means he started a bakery and family grocery store, continuing four years with good success. He then continued two years longer in groceries alone, and on a large scale, but was burned out and broken up in 1855. He soon accumulated enough means to build a brewery one-half mile east of the city, and also began retailing liquors. In 1859-60 he built and started the present Eagle Brewery of the city, and continued in the active management of the same until 1878. He also engaged in the ice business in 1860, and now owns four large ice houses, near the river, with a capacity of 13,000 tons of ice. He has probably contributed as much toward the growth and prosperity of Vincennes as any other citizen of Vincennes." - History of Knox and Daviess Counties, 1886

"The Eagle Brewing Company, of which these gentlemen are proprietors, was established in 1859, by John Ebner, Sr., who conducted it alone until 1870, when he leased the building to various parties who proved unsuccessful in its management, and accordingly, in 1874:, he, in company with Eugene Hack and Austin Simon, refitted and remodeled the old building, until it now ranks among the first in the State. The building is a large, three-story brick, and is supplied throughout with all modern appliances and conveniences. They have completed a new double cellar, which is used for storing hogshead beer and fermenting, and in addition they have a fine brick office, of Gothic architecture, on the first floor, which is handsomely fitted up. They manufacture about 18,000 barrels of beer per year, and employ about five wagons and twelve head of horses for the home trade. The beer is of such high quality that it has not only kept away all foreign competition in southwestern Indiana, but has compelled the proprietors to establish refrigerator depots in Washington, Ind., Carmi and Olney, Ill., and Jasper and Princeton, Ind., besides supplying southern Illinois and Indiana within a radius of seventy-five miles." - History of Knox and Daviess Counties, 1886

"The first general brewery in Vincennes was erected by the late John Ebner in the early fifties, and a portion of the building still forms a small part of the immense brewing establishment of Hack & Simon—Eagle Brewery. Today the plant covers two city blocks and represents an investment of more than $300,000, gives employment to nearly a hundred men whose wages aggregate about $75,000. The present output of the brewery is in excess of 25,000 barrels, in the production of which more than 30,000 bushels of barley and 15,000 pounds of hops are used. It is said that the revenue brought to the city from outside sources by the firm exceeds $200,000 annually." - History of Old Vincennes and Knox County, Indiana, 1911

"ANTON SIMON, of the Eagle Brewing Company of Vincennes, was born in Alsace, France (now Germany), November 2, 1848. Anton was reared with his parents in his native country, and secured a good ordinary German and French education. At the age of thirteen he left home and came to the United States, locating almost immediately in Vincennes, where he engaged as clerk in the dry goods business for a short period, and then worked for some time in Jacob Kautz's brewery. Later he clerked in a confectionery store about five years. He then worked for about two years at the bookbinders' trade, and in 1809 entered the employ of John Ebner, Sr., in the brewery business, and has continued in the establishment ever since, taking a partnership in 1874." - History of Knox and Daviess Counties, 1886