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Marathon / Food & Cooking / Related Stories / Marathon County / Manufacturing & Trade / 1880-1900 / Region 2 - North East / Marathon Brewing Company "Superfine" Beer Bottle

The Marathon Brewery’s Chain of Calamities

In the early 1880s, Franz Sindermann, who was trained as a brewer in Germany, formed a brewery in Marathon, Wisconsin with his brother, August, along with a third partner, Charles Klein. The brewery got off to a good start, producing 300 barrels…

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September 14, 2021
Read more about the article OBJECT HISTORY: Marathon Brewing Company “Superfine” Beer bottle
Object Histories / Food & Cooking / Marathon / Marathon County / Manufacturing & Trade / Region 2 - North East / 1940-1960 / Marathon Brewing Company "Superfine" Beer Bottle

OBJECT HISTORY: Marathon Brewing Company “Superfine” Beer bottle

The "Superfine" beer bottle is from the 1940/1950s from the Marathon City Brewing Company. Superfine was one of the many labels produced by Marathon City Brewery over eight decades from 1881 to 1966, featuring names such as Tannenbaum, Marathon Holiday, Marathon Bock,…

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August 31, 2021
Read more about the article OBJECT HISTORY: World’s Largest Six-Pack
Photo depicting original Old Style behind updated LaCrosse Brewing label, August 7, 2021, Courtesy of Cortney Anderson Kramer.
La Crosse / Object Histories / Food & Cooking / Manufacturing & Trade / La Crosse County / Region 3 - Center West / 1960-1980 / King Gambrinus Statues of LaCrosse

OBJECT HISTORY: World’s Largest Six-Pack

Located in La Crosse, Wisconsin, the “World’s Largest Six-Pack” is a popular tourist attraction and landmark structure representative of the city’s renowned brewing history. At 54 feet tall, the six steel storage tanks, shaped and arranged to resemble a six-pack of beer,…

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August 17, 2021

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