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- Address:
- 701 West Glendale Avenue
Glendale, WI 53209
- Phone:
- 414-964-7837
- Website:
- http://www.sprecherbrewery.com
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- Company Information:
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Sprecher Brewing Company, established 1985 in Milwaukee-Wisconsin, produces over eleven fine European styles of beer and seven different gourmet styles of soda.
Sprecher Brewing Co. was founded in 1985 by RANDAL SPRECHER, formerly a brewing supervisor at Pabst Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From 1985 to 1994, the brewery was located at 730 W. Oregon Street in Milwaukee's Walker's Point area. Through the first ten years the company grew steadily as more and more people found out about Sprecher's high quality beers and sodas. Finally, the company had outgrown its original facility and began looking for a new location to continue its growth.
In 1994, Sprecher purchased its current building, located at 701 W. Glendale Ave., a former elevator car factory. The new, larger brewery will allow the company to continue growing, and allow more people to enjoy all of Sprecher's fine products.
The history of brewing in Wisconsin began thirteen years before it became a state and a year before it even became a territory. by the late 1890's nearly every community in Wisconsin had at least one operating brewery.
In the 1880's Milwaukee was the home of more than 80 breweries. 100 years later, the number of operating breweries in the area can today be counted on one hand, and only one can still be considered a giant.
In 1919 the passage of Prohibition virtually sounded the death toll for all but the most diverse breweries. A few struggled through by producing near beer (.05 a
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