"The first brewery, it is said by early residents, was located and operated on the north side of the town of Bowling Green, on the site on which was afterward erected the first steam flouring-mill. At a later day, the Stucki brewery was established on the river bank, on the west side, just below the bridge, which was in operation during the Civil war and for a period of many years thereafter. At some time in the sixties, Joe Lenhart bought the tract of land on Birch creek on which the Gibbons mill had been located and operated at a much earlier day, and started a brewery on the same ground, which he continued to run for several years after the war. This rural plant afforded the farmers of the Birch creek agricultural community and its borders the opportunity to lay in a supply of lubricant for energizing the operations of the harvest field, of which some of them, at least, took advantage. There was also a brewery on the National road, west of Williamstown, operated by John Bauer, who moved it to Harmony, about the year 1870, where it was planted and operated for several years on the south side of the town." - History of Clay County

"The Brazil (Ind.) Brewing, Ice & Power Co.. it is reported, intends to greatly enlarge its ice making facilities before another season and talks of putting in an 80-ton Machine." - Ice and Refrigeration Illustrated, July-Dec 1903

"Thomas Jones of Indianapolis and Thomas Biggs and W.H. Johnson of Terre Haute, have purchased the plant of the Brazil Brewing Ice and Power Company." - Cold Storage and Ice Trade Journal, Jan-June 1908

"At Seeleyville, a mining town eight miles away in Vigo County, there are nineteen saloons, much of whose trade comes from the people of Clay County. The residents of this county also go to Terre Haute, and many are taken off the trolley cars in a state of intoxication. It is doubtless for the reason that saloons are within such a short distance from Brazil that "blind tigers" and "boot-legging" do not exist to any extent in Brazil." The Yearbook of the United States Brewers' Association, 1910

"The Lorenz Brewery was one of the first and largest industries of Crawfordsville. It is said that the beer cellar dug in 1864 still extends back under Market Street today. . . Henry Lorenz was born on June 9, 1827 in Germany. . . In 1853, Lorenz purchased an old brewery located on the triangular-shaped property encased by Lafayette Avenue at Market Street and Grant Avenue (northeast corner), which was a the time the western boundary of the town. . .

"The brewery's beer was brewed for 24 hours, then run into the huge hogsheads that were stored in the cellar under Market Street. From the hogsheads, the beer was drawn into 40 and 80-gallon kegs, then delivered to their retailers." - Crawfordsville, Athens of Indiana, 2003

"Joseph Miller, brewer, Covington, one of the self-made and enterprising business men of Covington, is a native of Wurtemburg, Germany. In 1854, when twenty-one years of age, he emigrated to the United States. He spent a short time in Connecticut, and then came west, and stopped in Montezuma, Parke county, Indiana, for about six months. In 1855 he came to Covington, where he has since lived. He began in Covington by working in a hotel for about four years. He then returned to Germany, and brought his father and mother to this country,— some of his brothers and sisters coming also,— so that there were six of them in all. He came direct to Covington, and for the next four years he was engaged in the cooper's trade; then in the saloon business for about two years; then, in 1865, in the manufacture of beer. He had, however, spent but two years in the latter when his brewery burned, he losing everything, and being left with an unpaid debt of $3,000. Still determined to succeed, he began again in a small way, and by economy and careful management he gradually recovered, paid off the debt, and is now running an establishment with a capacity of 20,000 barrels of beer per annum. In addition to building up the brewing establishment, he has, in company with his brother, erected a fine business block, and the present year (1880) will have completed one of the finest residence buildings in the city." - History of Fountain County