The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-07-13

A GREAT, BIG, PROGRESSIVE IN
DUSTRH, are the words best applied to
the Salt Lake City Brewing Company.
Salt Lake is proud of this institution. II
has been power in promoting the de-
velopment of the city and state. In ev-
cry hamlet and city in Utah its output
is known and recognized as the acme Of
purity and perfection of the brewers art
Every plan devised or advanced in the
interests of the community has received
its liberal support and encouragement.
This great home industry was establish
ed by Jacob Moritz. its president vice
president and general manager. as far
back as ISL. making its the pioneer brew
cry of Utah. During the thiTty-SiX years
! since its inception the policy of the man
! agement has been progression No eX-
pense or labor has been spared to improve
| the plant and its equipment and the small.
| unmOdern structure of 1871 has given way
! to one of the largest. best equipped brew
! cries west of the Mississippi river. Still
! the company continues to improve the
property. They have completed plans for
! a new brew house, which will be in oper-
! alton this fall. A new ice plant is being
| installed. which will have q capacity of
ten tons, and in addition to this the
company has now in operation a cotton
refrigerator plant used for the purpose of
cooling the cellars. Their new stock house
recently erected. stands $50 feet high and
is modern in every detail EXcavating is
now being done for an addition to the
stock house, which, when completed. VIII
cover ground 100X14O feet. With these
improvements made, will building cease?
Hardly. The purity and magnificent fla
vor of their lager beer and the great
popular flavor of their American Beauty
Beer has resulted in such a demand for
their product that it is necessary to work
three shifts of eight hours each to ko.H
up with the orders, and it is only plausible
to reason that the company will continue !
to add to its plant and equipment as the
increase of business requires
The capacity of the Salt Lake City |
Brewing Company's plant is $50 barrels of |
beer per day. Only the best Utah barley |
and imported hops are used, and every !
precaution is taken TO insure perfect SAM |
tation. Those in charge in the various I
departments are men who have thor
OUCH knowledge of the brewers art Mr.. |
Lehman; the Superintendent, is gradu-
ate of the Brewers Academy of Munich,
Bavaria. Electricity is generated in the /
brewery proper and is used largely to
operate the plant. In the stock house
top of the building, where it may get
the fresh air required by all first class
beer and be free from possible Infection
from the dust and dirt of the street be-
low. From here the beer is sent by grav-
ity through a cooler into the fermenting
cellar. To further avoid impurities fill
tered air only comes in contact with the
beer while it remains in this cellar. In
glass-lined steel tanks. the only ones west
of Chicago until recently similar ones
We're installed in one of the bTeweries in
St Louis. the beer remains for four
months, the time required to age it prop
erly
Leaving the tanks the beer passes
through two filters Zone is used by most
breweries) and counter filters, the latter
preserving the carbonic acid gas which
gives that sparkling effect for which
American Beauty beer is famous.
The brewery has installed a govern
nent pipe line, the first one west of the
Missouri river which runs from the tanks
IF the stock house. through a tunnel I'M I
Ter the street, containing specially con- {
'tructed cellar. containing more glass |
incd tanks. These tanks are inspected /
lnder the direct supervision Of govern {
nent officials This cellar is as perfect =
n its arrangements as any cellar in the {
world. S
In the bottling house the appointments
ire, as elsewhere, the best and latest I
,rOcurable Empty bottles returned to .
he brewery are steriIized thoroughly be f