St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-18
THE SPRING BREWERY.
The Most Complete Establishment
In Northern Wisconsin.

In Northern Wisconsin.
No stranger visiting Chippewa Falls
ought to depart before inspecting the
Spring brewery, owned by Jacob Lein-
enkugel. In size, capacity, completeness
of detail, quality of goods, and the gen
eral picturesqueness of the surround
ingS, it's equal will be difficult to find in
the Northwest. The brewery buildings,
ice houses and adjuncts are Of stone,
and occupy ground space OF 60x30O
feet, all of which was formerly bold
bluff. The buildings consist Of malt
house, 80x130 feet, three stories high: a
cooling room and wash house, 40x60
feet; All engine room, 30X50; and two
large ice houses and storing cellars, one
of which is 35X65 feet, A feet high, of
stone, with an ice capacity of 1000 tons,
and storing capacity of 5000 barrels OF
beer; another one is 44xS0 feet,
two stories high. capable of containing
1900 tons of ice and a storing capacity
of 5000 barrels of beer. The engine
house has fifty=h0rse power engine
and 150-hOrSe power boiler, Knowles
boiler pump, large stand pump for
water. with a capacity of throwing 100
gallons per minute, and an air pump for
forcing the beer from the large watts in
the cellars to the filling room. The
brewing room is 22X22 and contains a
mash tub holding Seventy-fiye barrels
and Blake beer pump. The malt Gel
lars are two in number, with an aggre-
gate floor space of 5000 square feet,
with cement bottoms, and contain four
large boiler iron soaking tanks for soak
ing the barley, with capacity OF l60
bushels each, Or $40 bushels in all. The
second floor contains two huge boiler
iron tanks capable of holding 150 barrels
each, one for hot and the other for cold
water, which is distributed throughout
the building wherever needed. Adjoin-
ing the tanks are two large barley store
rooms 1OOx40 feet, with a storing capac-
ity of 10000 bushels. The third floor.
10OxT5 feet, contains the malt mill for
grinding the malt, with a capacity of
consuming IT'S bushels per hour, with
dry room adjoining of perforated iron
floor cap bic of drying 100 bushels per
day. The cellars are two in number,
with solid stone walls and ceiling, one
Of which contains thirty-two large watts
that hold 175 barrels each, while the
other contains twenty-five huge hogs
heads, each one holding sixty barrels.
Besides the cellars there are two caves
UuS Oub Vi UlC oOil0 LOCh LII ~ 81
but unused at present. The daily capac-
ity of the works is seventy-fiye barrels,
equivalent to 2,400 gallons. 1t requires
$4,000 bushels of barley. $4,000 pounds
of hops annually to run the works. The
hops used are Oregon and imported in
the proportion of two to one, while the
addition of the foreign article is to in
crease the flavor. The number of men
employed is eighteen, and teams a.,
while the beer is sold in all parts of the
state and as far east as Detroit, Mich.
Mr.. Leinenkugel dates his residence in
the Chippewa valley back to 1866, and
through habits of thrift and economy
has acquired competence worthy of
record. The water used throughout
the works comes from large spring in
the bluff and is the purest water known.
The cut OF his brewery gives but a faint
idea of what it really is, while none of
the picturesqueness of the surrounding
scenery is shown.