THE VALLEY OF HEART's DELIGHT
FREDERICKSBURG BREWERY
Established 1869
San Jose Township


SURNAMES;  KRAHENBERG, SCHNABEL, RECARD, SCHRAMM, DENICKE,

This, the most extensive and complete brewery in the county, if not in the State, was first established in the year 1869, by Fred, Krahenberg, in a shanty, on the corner of Cinnabar street and the Alameda, where now stand the splendid fabric of Schnabel & Denicke.  In 1870, Mr. Krahenberg admitted Alfred Recard into partnership, continuing the business in the  original building.  Mr. Recard sold out his share to Schramm & Schnabel, in 1872, and the style of the firm became Krahenberg & Co.  In this year, a new brew and malt house, as well as other buildings were erected of brick, the dimensions of these being; malt house, one hundred by fifty feet; brew house and cellars one hundred and sixty by forty feet; and fermenting house supplied with all the latest improvements, eighty by forty feet; while the trade had increased to between four and five thousand barrels per year.  In 1876, Mr. Kranhenberg disposed of his stock in the concern to Schramm & schnabel, who gave their name ot the firm, which it maintained until the month of APril, 1880, when E. A. Denicke buying out Mr. Schramm, the designation of the copartnership became Schnabel & Denicke, that which it now bears.  The ground on which the Fredricksburg brewery is located has two artesian wells, of five hundred and twenty-one, and one hundred and seventy-five feet in-depth, the property occupying an area of two acres.  Besides being supplied with a  refrigerator, whereby ice may be manufactured, and water cooled to the necessary standard, it possesses a department for pitching kegs, under the Anhauser patent, as well as a thirty-five horse-power engine to drive the machinery.  The barley used is entire the product of the Santa Clara valley, while the malt is wholly made on the premises. Last year, the fiscal year to May 1, 1880, the amount of beer sold was ten thousand, two hundred and one barrels, which found a ready market all over the Pacific coast, the Territories, and even in Mexico, and the expectation is that the year 1880-81 will see a production of fully twelve thousand barrels.  It is pleasant to record that the proprietors leave no stone unturned so that a pleasant and healthful beverage maybe produced; improvements are constantly being made so that the standard of the beer may be bettered, and the proof that it is so rectified is to be found in the annual increase in the manufacture, sale and consumption of Fredricksburg beer.

Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1888. p. 524

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