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Classic Montana Beer Art
Many classic Montana beer brands have come and gone over the 125 years plus of beer making in this great state….and here’s a way to reconnect and enjoy those classics through classic beer art reproductions for your home or office.
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We make these to look like smaller versions of bottle caps with vintage and new Montana beer brand art. These are 8 inch rounds with a distinctive bottle cap pattern cut out. We make these to look like smaller versions of bottle caps with vintage and new Montana beer brand art. These are 8 inch rounds with a distinctive bottle cap pattern cut out. This Billings Brewing Co. piece features a pretty woman smiling into her Old Fashioned Beer.
About Billings Brewing Co (Billings, Montana; 1899-1952): The Billings Brewing Co., created in February of 1900, was the brainchild of three men from Butte. All three were involved in Butte’s Centennial Brewing Co. Henry Mueller, a Prussian, used cash from successful mining claims to buy the Centennial Brewery. Louis Best, from Milwaukee, worked in the malt liquor business and was related to the founders of Pabst Brewing. Phil Grein, a German, spent 17 years working for the Anaconda Brewing Co. before taking charge of the Billings Brewery operation. The plant sat across from the Depot at 2319 Montana Ave., about where Venture Theater is today.
In mid-April of 1900, more than 3,000 people showed up to taste the plant’s first beer and tour the plant, which had a dozen brewing vats on the first floor and was capable of producing 20,000 barrels of beer a year. The flagship brand, “Old Fashion,” had a red label. But near the end, as the plant deteriorated and the beer’s reputation nose-dived, the label’s color changed to a green. Customers sarcastically branded it the “Green Death.” The plant was demolished in 1959, but collectors have kept alive memories of Billings’ first microbrewery.
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We make these to look like smaller versions of bottle caps with vintage and new Montana beer brand art. These are 8 inch rounds with a distinctive bottle cap pattern cut out. Butte Brewing seemed to lean towards great outdoor art as part of their marketing – and this beauty is a prime example.
About Butte Brewing Company (Butte, Montana; 1885-1963): The Butte Brewery was established by Henry Muntzer in 1885, nine years after Butte’s first brewery, the Centennial. Beginning in the late 1890s, managers expanded production and built or re-built many of the brewery’s buildings on North Wyoming between Granite and Copper Streets. Capacity was expected to grow to 125 barrels per day in 1901, and the new malthouse was to handle 10,000 pounds per day. In 1917, with statewide Prohibition coming in 1919, the brewery promoted its Eureka Beer as “Liquid food for temperate people.” The Butte Brewery was the only one in Butte that survived Prohibition, by producing malted soft drinks and other beverages (using the Checo brand), but it did not survive the economic downturn that affected Butte in the 1960s and 1970s. They were out of business about 1963 and the brewery buildings were demolished soon after.
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We make these to look like smaller versions of bottle caps with vintage and new Montana beer brand art. These are 8 inch rounds with a distinctive bottle cap pattern cut out. This piece features the Butte Brewing Trademark and deep colors.
About Butte Brewing Company (Butte, Montana; 1885-1963): The Butte Brewery was established by Henry Muntzer in 1885, nine years after Butte’s first brewery, the Centennial. Beginning in the late 1890s, managers expanded production and built or re-built many of the brewery’s buildings on North Wyoming between Granite and Copper Streets. Capacity was expected to grow to 125 barrels per day in 1901, and the new malthouse was to handle 10,000 pounds per day. In 1917, with statewide Prohibition coming in 1919, the brewery promoted its Eureka Beer as “Liquid food for temperate people.” The Butte Brewery was the only one in Butte that survived Prohibition, by producing malted soft drinks and other beverages (using the Checo brand), but it did not survive the economic downturn that affected Butte in the 1960s and 1970s. They were out of business about 1963 and the brewery buildings were demolished soon after.
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We make these to look like smaller versions of bottle caps with vintage and new Montana beer brand art. These are 8 inch rounds with a distinctive bottle cap pattern cut out. This Capital City Brewing Company art features the turn of the century version of pinups – the odd national tendency to show women drinking their beer on brewania.
About Capital City Brewing Company (Helena Montana 1908-1911): Capital City Brewing Company seems to have grown out of the Helena Brewery which was founded as early as 1865 (located in the huge 4 story complex once at 477 S Park Avenue in Helena). The company also operated as Capital Brewing and Malting Company from 1902 until 1911. It’s interesting to note that “High Life,” a name that the Miller Brewing Company began using for all it’s pilsners in 1903, was a brand of beer offered by Capital Brewing and malting before that date.
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We make these to look like smaller versions of bottle caps with vintage and new Montana beer brand art. These are 8 inch rounds with a distinctive bottle cap pattern cut out. The Great Falls deep blue “bottle cap” features the “It’s the Flavor” slogan.
About Great Falls Brewing Company: Great Falls Breweries Inc. was founded by Emil Sick in 1933 immediately after the repeal of Prohibition. It was begun with the purchase of the interests of the Montana Brewing Company and the American Brewing Company, two Great Falls firms dating from the 1890s that had been closed by Prohibition. Mr. Sick continued the operation until 1949 when he sold the property to local interests. It was again sold in 1966 to Blitz-Weinhard Company of Portland, Oregon, which continued operations until September, 1968 when severe economic conditions forced the closure of the Great Falls plant. At the time of its closing, the Great Falls operation was the last operating brewery in the four state area of Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, and Wyoming.
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We make these to look like smaller versions of bottle caps with vintage and new Montana beer brand art. These are 8 inch rounds with a distinctive bottle cap pattern cut out. The Great Falls deep blue “bottle cap” features the “Guaranteed Properly Aged” slogan.
About Great Falls Brewing Company: Great Falls Breweries Inc. was founded by Emil Sick in 1933 immediately after the repeal of Prohibition. It was begun with the purchase of the interests of the Montana Brewing Company and the American Brewing Company, two Great Falls firms dating from the 1890s that had been closed by Prohibition. Mr. Sick continued the operation until 1949 when he sold the property to local interests. It was again sold in 1966 to Blitz-Weinhard Company of Portland, Oregon, which continued operations until September, 1968 when severe economic conditions forced the closure of the Great Falls plant. At the time of its closing, the Great Falls operation was the last operating brewery in the four state area of Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, and Wyoming.
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We make these to look like smaller versions of bottle caps with vintage and new Montana beer brand art. These are 8 inch rounds with a distinctive bottle cap pattern cut out. The Great Falls Select Brand is well represented with crisp red and gold colors.
About Great Falls Brewing Company: Great Falls Breweries Inc. was founded by Emil Sick in 1933 immediately after the repeal of Prohibition. It was begun with the purchase of the interests of the Montana Brewing Company and the American Brewing Company, two Great Falls firms dating from the 1890s that had been closed by Prohibition. Mr. Sick continued the operation until 1949 when he sold the property to local interests. It was again sold in 1966 to Blitz-Weinhard Company of Portland, Oregon, which continued operations until September, 1968 when severe economic conditions forced the closure of the Great Falls plant. At the time of its closing, the Great Falls operation was the last operating brewery in the four state area of Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, and Wyoming.
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We make these to look like smaller versions of bottle caps with vintage and new Montana beer brand art. These are 8 inch rounds with a distinctive bottle cap pattern cut out. This Best Beer brand features a mix of an interesting gentleman enjoying his Best Beer with intricate boundary art of hops and barely.
About Kalispell Malting and Brewing (Kalispell, Montana 1894-1918; 1933-1953): Kalispell Malting and Brewing began in 1892 as German immigrant brothers Henry and Charles Lindlahr opened a ‘sample room” on Kalispell’s main street called the Brewery Saloon giving the brothers a retail outlet to test their brewing recipes. Eventually they opened Kalispell Brewing Co. on the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue West and Center Street. The Lindlahrs incorporated Kalispell Malting and Brewing Co. in 1894. The use of locally grown barley was highly promoted. in 1898 the company advertised a $1 million reward to anyone “who can prove that it is better for the people of Flathead Valley to send money for beer to Milwaukee, when a better article is made at home by Flathead County taxpayers from their own barley, fuel, ice and labor.” In 1910 the brewery’s output had grown to 12,000 barrels a day. The tall brewery buildings, including the tower on the malt house, were a landmark in Kalispell, along with the large sign that declared “Best Bottled Beer.”
Col. Jacob Best, a German brewer who founded what would later become Pabst Brewing Co., purchased stock in Kalispell Malting and Brewing Co. for his nephew, Christian Best, who operated the Kalispell brewery until 1913, establishing the popular Best Beer brand. After Prohibition, the Kalispell brewery produced a number of beers, including Glacier Special Beer, Topper Beer, Topper Deluxe and Glacier Bock. It was one of the first northwest brewery to being bottle after the repeal of prohibition. The operation went out of business in 1953
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We make these to look like smaller versions of bottle caps with vintage and new Montana beer brand art. These are 8 inch rounds with a distinctive bottle cap pattern cut out. We love this Glacier Beer art featuring the Drink it and Smile tagline.
About Kalispell Malting and Brewing (Kalispell, Montana 1894-1918; 1933-1953): Kalispell Malting and Brewing began in 1892 as German immigrant brothers Henry and Charles Lindlahr opened a ‘sample room” on Kalispell’s main street called the Brewery Saloon giving the brothers a retail outlet to test their brewing recipes. Eventually they opened Kalispell Brewing Co. on the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue West and Center Street. The Lindlahrs incorporated Kalispell Malting and Brewing Co. in 1894. The use of locally grown barley was highly promoted. in 1898 the company advertised a $1 million reward to anyone “who can prove that it is better for the people of Flathead Valley to send money for beer to Milwaukee, when a better article is made at home by Flathead County taxpayers from their own barley, fuel, ice and labor.” In 1910 the brewery’s output had grown to 12,000 barrels a day. The tall brewery buildings, including the tower on the malt house, were a landmark in Kalispell, along with the large sign that declared “Best Bottled Beer.”
Col. Jacob Best, a German brewer who founded what would later become Pabst Brewing Co., purchased stock in Kalispell Malting and Brewing Co. for his nephew, Christian Best, who operated the Kalispell brewery until 1913, establishing the popular Best Beer brand. After Prohibition, the Kalispell brewery produced a number of beers, including Glacier Special Beer, Topper Beer, Topper Deluxe and Glacier Bock. It was one of the first northwest brewery to being bottle after the repeal of prohibition. The operation went out of business in 1953
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We make these to look like smaller versions of bottle caps with vintage and new Montana beer brand art. These are 8 inch rounds with a distinctive bottle cap pattern cut out.
About Kessler Brewing Company: Kessler Brewing Company was originally founded by Charles Breeher as the Ten Mile Brewery in 1865 until bought out by Nick Kessler, a Luxembourg-born entrepreneur who’d turned from gold prospecting to other interests. At it’s height, the brewery brewed over 200 barrels of BEER A DAY and more than 24,000 bottles. The plant operated during various economic conditions, depressions and even the 1935 earthquake (and aftershock) which heavily damaged the building and collapsed it’s stack killing two workers. For a time a Northern Pacific Locomotive was used to power the brewery.
In 1886 Nickolas Kessler directed the construction of an entirely new plant at the brewery, furnished with the first refrigeration machine in Montana and the first carbonic acid gas machine to be used in an American brewery. Kessler installed the first glass-lined storage tanks in the state in 1903, and in 1907 he installed the first bottling pipe line in the Rocky Mountain area. He also established a small brickyard at the brewery in the late 1860s or early 1870s. The company operated from 1865 until 1957 when Frederick, the last Kessler son, died. (more history and pictures here www.helenahistory.org/kessler_brewing_compnay.htm)
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We make these to look like smaller versions of bottle caps with vintage and new Montana beer brand art. These are 8 inch rounds with a distinctive bottle cap pattern cut out. This piece features gorgeous combination of art and color for the signature Lorelei Beer Brand.
About Kessler Brewing Company: Kessler Brewing Company was originally founded by Charles Breeher as the Ten Mile Brewery in 1865 until bought out by Nick Kessler, a Luxembourg-born entrepreneur who’d turned from gold prospecting to other interests. At it’s height, the brewery brewed over 200 barrels of BEER A DAY and more than 24,000 bottles. The plant operated during various economic conditions, depressions and even the 1935 earthquake (and aftershock) which heavily damaged the building and collapsed it’s stack killing two workers. For a time a Northern Pacific Locomotive was used to power the brewery.
In 1886 Nickolas Kessler directed the construction of an entirely new plant at the brewery, furnished with the first refrigeration machine in Montana and the first carbonic acid gas machine to be used in an American brewery. Kessler installed the first glass-lined storage tanks in the state in 1903, and in 1907 he installed the first bottling pipe line in the Rocky Mountain area. He also established a small brickyard at the brewery in the late 1860s or early 1870s. The company operated from 1865 until 1957 when Frederick, the last Kessler son, died. (more history and pictures here www.helenahistory.org/kessler_brewing_compnay.htm)
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We make these to look like smaller versions of bottle caps with vintage and new Montana beer brand art. These are 8 inch rounds with a distinctive bottle cap pattern cut out. This piece features a woodgrain background signature Lorelei Beer Brand.
About Kessler Brewing Company: Kessler Brewing Company was originally founded by Charles Breeher as the Ten Mile Brewery in 1865 until bought out by Nick Kessler, a Luxembourg-born entrepreneur who’d turned from gold prospecting to other interests. At it’s height, the brewery brewed over 200 barrels of BEER A DAY and more than 24,000 bottles. The plant operated during various economic conditions, depressions and even the 1935 earthquake (and aftershock) which heavily damaged the building and collapsed it’s stack killing two workers. For a time a Northern Pacific Locomotive was used to power the brewery.
In 1886 Nickolas Kessler directed the construction of an entirely new plant at the brewery, furnished with the first refrigeration machine in Montana and the first carbonic acid gas machine to be used in an American brewery. Kessler installed the first glass-lined storage tanks in the state in 1903, and in 1907 he installed the first bottling pipe line in the Rocky Mountain area. He also established a small brickyard at the brewery in the late 1860s or early 1870s. The company operated from 1865 until 1957 when Frederick, the last Kessler son, died. (more history and pictures here www.helenahistory.org/kessler_brewing_compnay.htm)
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