The morning call., 1890-09-21
BUFFALO BREWERY.
Pacific Coast MaIt-House That Com
prres With the Best.

Pacific Coast MaIt-House That Com
p1res With the Best.
The Buffalo Brewery is the property of the
Buffalo Brewing Company, which was incor-
porated two years ago with capital of
$500, 900. Since then the value Of the plant
has increased until it is now valued at
$500, coo, and by the time all of its arrange
meuts are competed this value will have
been still further enhanced until it will be
worth 100000.
It's officers are: A. Hebron, President;
W. E. Gerber, Secretary; Herman H. Grau,
Manager, who, together with Newton Booth,
Frederick Cox, Louis NichOlaus and Frank
Ruhstaller, constitute the Board of Direc-
tors. Other prominent citizens of the State
are large shareholders.
1t is enc Of the larg st b.eweres of the
State. having a capacity of 10000 barrels
per annum, and differs in many respects
from anything of 4 similar kind here, com
pairing favOrably with some Of the recently
improved breweTieS in the East, and throw
ing in the shade any brewery establishment
on this Coast. 1t is the fist Pacific Coast
brewery to ignore the manufacture of steam
beer; all of its output consists of lager.
Operations were commenced III February
last, and on the 18th day OF May, three and
a half months later, when the first keg was
tapped, the success was assured.
The leading idea in tile erection of the
Buffalo Brewery was to appropriate all Of
the latest inventions ard Improvements of
any practical value in its equipment, and
number of only theoretically known features
demon lrate now to the aStunlShed visitor to
this mt del brewery, be he layman or
brewer, the enormous advantage over the
first primitive system OF the hrst klnGly
mixer oil hops and malt. But the brewing
art of to-day makes every brewer his own
..H,1N
we find the most important and interesting
novelties. There is a pneumatic apparatus
which extracts every particle of foul air
from and forces fresh, pure air into the
asphHlted basement where the barley COM
mences to thrive. The grain is made wet by
another ingenious invention, which throws
in SPRAYS Of water, the injections being
made with the regularity of the movement
of 4 chronometer. thereby creating that con-
dition of moist atmosphere known as a fog,
so essential to growth.
Another triumph over manual labor IS the
machinery which does away with the shovel
and spade for turning the malt. A system
Of screws and auxiliary implements do this
work automatically In such a perfect man
nPr That one grain is taken up and turned
with mathematical accuracy, just as often
and just as high over both its axes as the
other, thereby securing uniformity of
growth and development that no one even
dreamed of year or so ago.
To witness the actions of these wonderful
pieces of machinery, which will be found
to be In accordance with the grand style
of all of the arrangements in every detail,
means to become fayorably predisposed re-
garding the amher-colored fluid turned out,
and the best proof. the drinking, always sus-
tains the fir,t impression. Quite number of
first class resorts are already captured by the
superiority of its taste and appearance and
by the absence of any evil effects, even after
copous libations Mr.. A. II. Lochbaum, Il
Pioneer, who is also well known to younger
Californans, acts as general agent for the
company. TIE depot for keg beer and the bot
Ting establishment, with the ice-hpusPs cold
storage rooms, stables, etc, are all at 521 and
523 Fifteenth street between Guerrero and
Dolores. The superiority OF its plants and the
financial capacity of its rith stockholders
stamp the Buffao Brewing Company as the
most formidable OPT onent Of the Brewers
Syndicate. Skirmishes between them, no.
ticeablc to the naked eye. already promise to
lead TO better contested engagements in the
near future. in which the devices of anti-mo-
nopoly on the one hand and conso! idation on
the other may be brought into contest.