314:. Lithia and Old Timer's are currently not in production. Walter's is being produced in Pueblo as a micro-brew. Sometime around 1999 German born West Bend resident Gunter Woog bought the Lithia trademark. In 2011 he attempted to relaunch the brand working with Sprecher Brewing of Glendale, Wisconsin. In 2012 it was being sold in regional clubs and bars, and seemed to have a "following". By 2018 the only listing of availability on the Sprecher Lithia website is a questionable one in Canada.
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was over 32,000 barrels. The future looked bright, the brewery was in the black, and new markets were being opened. At this point, however, a $ 100,000.00 shipment of under-pasteurized beer was released to the new markets of Ohio and
California. The brewmaster John Walter and assistant brewmaster John Walter II were blamed and fired immediately. Insurance covered the recall however the damage done to consumer confidence was believed to be insurmountable.
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Appleton, WI who offered to purchase it after prohibition. Walter's Beer is currently being brewed by Northwoods Brewery and Restaurant as a micro-brew with a variation of the post prohibition Eau Claire Walter's label as well as
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Martin Walter's company began making beer in Pueblo, CO in 1898, and continued until 1975. Martin headed westward with his family earlier due to the
Menasha, WI brewery unable to support the financial needs of an ever growing family from 3 (Martin, Matthaus and Christian) of the 5 Walter Brothers. He
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Ltd. and operated the facility with the introduction of many award-winning craft beers such as Eau Claire All Malt, Oktober Fest, Winter Brau and a
Dunkelweisen, along with Walter's and Walter's Special. When Healy bought the brewery it was producing 12,000 barrels, and within three years production
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Trinidad, CO location, The Walter Brewing Co. in Eau Claire founded in 1889 by Johannes Walter following a catastrophic fire in his first Spencer, WI facility and a move to Eau Claire, Appleton Brewing Company by George Walter, West Bend Lithia by Martin
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Menasha closed in the 1950s. The Eau Claire brewery was sold to Mike Healy, an Irish attorney from Chicago who worked for U.S. Bank Note, in 1985, renamed
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