August Uihlein
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Georg Karl August Uihlein was a German-American brewer, business executive, and horse breeder.
August Uihlein
Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company was an American brewing company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded in 1849, it was once the largest producer of beer in the United States. Its namesake beer, Schlitz
August Uihlein
…from 1855 to 1857. Uihlein worked in the Uhrig Brewery in St. Louis from 1857 to 1867. Returning to Milwaukee in 1867, he joined what was then the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, formerly the Krug Brewery founded by his uncle August Krug in the 1840s. On the death of Schlitz in 1875, control of the firm passed into the hands…
Advertising on the Chicago River grain elevators
Former Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company brewery in Milwaukee in 2025
A Schlitz Sunshine Vitamin D Beer can, circa 1936, in the Wisconsin Historical Museum