Reedsburg Brewery

Reedsburg Brewery is located at 401 North Walnut Street in Reedsburg, Wisconsin.^[3] The property is 300 by 60 feet (91 by 18 m) and originally contained four buildings–a brewery, office, bottling works, and a house. The house no longer exists and the office and bottling works have been connected.^[4] The complex is built out of brick in a "simplified" Romanesque style according to the National Register of Historic Places.^[2] The Wisconsin State Register calls it an astylistic utilitarian building.^[3]

The hop boom of the 1860s brought the first Reedsburg Brewery to town. Frank and Florin Meckler built a brewery on North Walnut Street. The business would burn down several times and be sold to several owners. In 1880 the business was sold yet again and become the Reedsburg Brewing Company.^[5] The brewery was only producing 350 barrels of beer per year as compared to the 1,000 barrels in previous years. A large fire burned down this building in 1904.^[6]

On the same site in 1904, the new Reedsburg Brewery building was built, out of brick. This new building was able to produce 5,000 barrels of beer every year.^[6] The business closed in 1950, after sales declined heavily. For the next 30 years, the building was left unused. In 1984, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and was remodeled into apartments in 1987.^[7]

• Stager, Claudette (1983). Reedsburg Intensive Survey (Report). UW Extension. OCLC 13518987.
• Schuette, William; Sesquicentennial History Committee (1997). Reedsburg Remembers 150 Years: A History of Reedsburg, Wisconsin 1848–1998. Chelsea, MI: BookCrafters. p. 141. OCLC 39675566.
• Butterfield, C. W. (1880). The History of Sauk County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical Company. LCCN 04023266.
• Kroll, Wayne L. (1976). Badger Breweries; Past and Present. LCCN 76362763.

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