Mishicot Brewing Company Newspaper Clipping

A context-free photocopy of a newspaper clipping with a description of the Mishicot Brewing Company of Mishicot, Wisconsin:

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Last week Wednesday, happening to be in the lively village of Mishicott with a friend, I had occasion to visit the extensive brewery of Julius Linstedt. Everybody knows Jule, and knows that he is one of the most jolly and accomodating fellows in the county.

Upon our request to show us the establishment, he thought it necessary to partake of some “fresh tapped” before going through the building, and partake we did of a glass of the best beer we have had for some time. Jule then procured a couple of torches and we proceeded to the cellar, which is one of the largest and best built stone cellars in the county. It is 48 feet deep, 18 feet wide, and 12 feet high, with double doors and stone walls, and is considered air and water tight.

Above the cellar is the well-filled ice house, which is connected with the cellar by five ventilators, through which the cold air passes when opened in warm weather, in order to keep the four to five hundred barrels of beer, stored below, cool. We were then shown a force pump with pipes, which is used to throw the beer from the front cellar into the hogs-heads in the back cellar, to be stored there until the time for shipping. Passing through the front cellar, we arrive in the malt cellar, which is 64 feet deep and 16 feet wide, with brick floor and stone walls. There you will always find 100 bushels of malt of the floor ready to work up. Up a flight of stairs and we see a double heating kiln for heating the malt. It is so constructed—one malt bed being above the other—that the same fire will heat both kilns. Then we were shown the large stock of barely on hand, and were told there was enough there to make 500 more barrels of beer. Mr. Linstedt sells most of his beer in Kewaunee and the northwestern part of this county, and that it is good beer, the constant demand for it will prove.

After partaking of another “smile” and shaking hands, we left, promising to call again whenever we visit Mishicott.