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FormatJournal Article
Title, AnalyticSlinger Beer Toasted before Village Renamed
Journal TitlePerspektiven
Date of PublicationSummer 2003
Volume ID2
Issue ID3
Location in Work6-7, ill.
Language or Document TypeEnglish
AbstractLehman Rosenheimer came to the village of Schleisingerville, Wisconsin, in 1856. He bought a brewery in 1870, which was bought by H. Charles Storck and William Hartig in 1877. "By 1895, Storck's beer became so popular, he sent it as far as Stevens Point, Wisconsin, by rail.... The Storcks fought off competition by introducing Slinger Beer, the name the village would change its name to in 1921." During Prohibition the Storck brewery publicly shifted to producing ice cream, although beer was still secretly manufactured. "The brewery was forced into involuntary receivership during September 1958."
NotesGoethe House of Wisconsin; adapted from an article by Otto Tiegs which appeared in the American Breweriana Journal, July-August 1995.
Call NumberMKI Periodicals
MKI TermsWisconsin -- Washington County/ German Americans -- Wisconsin/ Rosenheimer, Lehman/ Breweries/ Business & Industry