Schlitz, Brewing Art

Newly updated in 2015, includes 40 extra pages of history! Includes a video walkthrough of the brewhouse and a time lapse of the demolition.  Along with 70 minutes of audio interviews from employees and music.  fully interactive with detailed photographs of the brewery both past and present. All the of the photographs were updated for the production of this book as enhanced photographs. 


Welcome to “Schlitz Brewing Art” – a singular photographic and auditory tour of the long-abandoned laboratories and brew houses which produced “The beer that made Milwaukee famous.” 

  

You are invited in by Peter T. Uihlein’s introduction as he expresses his fond recollections of the Schlitz Brewery’s daily industriousness from decades past. 

  

Listen to stories retold by former Schlitz employees – along with music inspired by the photography – on the enclosed CD. 


Read the statements and reflections of the men who established the Jos. Schlitz Brewery and drove it to the success of its heyday – excerpted from their public speeches as well as their private writings. 


View remembrances etched on the walls or left scattered on the floors of the brewhouses.  


Ponder compelling texts demonstrating the complex situation of brewing within American history, including the intervening period of Prohibition.  


Have fun with Schlitz-related trivia, old advertising posters, slogans – and even a recipe featuring 

Schlitz beer. 


Take in this entire work, composed to sustain the legacy of The Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company.  


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