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TITUS SCHMIDT AND COMPANY
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TITUS SCHMIDT AND COMPANY. Titus SCHMID, B. Scheer and F. Beck founded the company in 1855. With a capacity of 7,000 barrels of beer annually, the plant had an appraised vale of $10,000 in 1857. The brewery, the first to locally bottle beer, was later called the IOWA BREWERY.
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Source:
Reber, Craig, "City Brews Up Rich History of Microbrewing," Telegraph Herald, September 15, 2008, p. 27
See: BREWERIES