Bohemian Dorf Pint Glass, Great Lakes Brewing, Schoenhofen-Edelweiss Co, Chicago IL

Bohemian Dorf Pint Glass, Great Lakes Brewing, Schoenhofen-Edelweiss Co, Chicago ILPeter Schoenhofen, a Prussian immigrant, was in Chicago working in the brewing trade by the 1850s. In 1861, he started a partnership with Matheus Gottfried; they were soon operating a brewery at Canalport Avenue and 18th Street where, during the early 1860s, they made about 600 barrels of lager beer a year. In 1867, Schoenhofen bought out his partner, and the company became the Peter Schoenhofen Brewing Co. By 1868, annual output had increased to

State Fair Premium was brewed around the year 1962

but we had them

Further additions during the next decade attested to the growing popularity of his lager

The brand was relatively short lived as the brewery closed permanently in 1890

Regal Select beer was produced from 1961 through 1971 and its image is reproduced on this clear pint glass with a digitally restored label from my personal collection

Enjoy your favorite beverage in this clear pint glass with a digitally restored Newman's label from my personal collection

Enjoy your favorite beverage in this clear pint glass printed with a vintage Chicago 49er beer label reproduced from my personal collection

000 barrels per year

During the 1890s

Brewing Co label from my personal collection

Six years later

Dickey headed to Kansas and settled first in Wichita where he worked as an “assistant postmaster