CCSI Cork Crowncap Database - Brewer/Bottler
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 Brewer/bottler #2585 | | | Name | Wm J. Lemp Brewing Co. |
| | | | | | | | | Extra info | Johann Adam Lemp was born in 1798 in Eschwege, Germany, and two years after his arrival in the United States in 1836, he moved to St. Louis. He sought to make his fortune by becoming a grocer; however he abandoned this dream when he realized his grocery store was more popular for its lager beer than for its groceries. In 1840, Adam Lemp closed his grocery and opened a brewery and saloon, then known as the Western Brewery. During the 1840s, Lemp moved the brewery to a larger complex in south St. Louis and began training his son, William J. Lemp, to take over the operations. The elder Lemp died in 1862, with his estate being valued at $20,000.
William J. Lemp then took over the brewery and purchased the property that would become the Lemp Brewery complex in 1864. This property at 3500 Lemp Avenue, still stands in St. Louis today.
After the implementation of Prohibition in the United States in 1919, the Lemp Brewery was unable to continue its beer brewing operations, and its near beer product (known as Cerva) was not profitable. In 1920, the Lemp Brewery's factory complex and brands were sold to other beer brewing companies
In 1939 the struggling Central Brewing Company of East St. Louis Illinois renamed itself as the Wm. J. Lemp Brewing Company. For 6 years they existed as the Lemp Brewery before changing their name again, to the EMS Brewing Co., in 1945. The brewery would soon close as a branch of Falstaff in 1949. In 1987 St. Louis beer historian Steven J. DeBellis put Lemp beer back on the market as an American adjunct lager. The Lemp Brewing Co. currently contract brews Lemp beer through the Stevens Point Brewery in Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Excerpt from Tavern Trove:
1840 - 1850 (Johann Adam) Lemp & Co., Western Brewery 32 South 2nd Street between Walnut & Elm
1850 - 1851 Lemp & Kaschell, Western Brewery 32 South 2nd Street between Walnut & Elm
1851 - 1862 Adam Lemp, Western Brewery 32/37 South 2nd
1862 - 1864 W. (William) J. Lemp & Co., Western Brew... 32/37 South 2nd
1864 - 1887 Wm. J. Lemp's Western Brewery (1864-1887... Cherokee Street & 2nd Carondelet Avenue.
1887 - 1892 Wm. J. Lemp's Western Brewery (1887-1892... 2nd, Carondelet Avenue & Cherokee Street
1892 - 1911 Wm. J. Lemp Brewing Co. (1892-1911) 13th & Cherokee Streets
1911 - 1919 Wm. J. Lemp Brewing Co. (1911-1919) 3322 13th & Cherokee Streets
Closed in 1919. |
| | | | | | | Other names used for this Brewer/bottler | | Name 1 | Lemp Manufacturers |
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