1950 Vintage Fehr's Beer Bottle Empty 6 Pack Cardboard Carton Louisville, KY

Description: Rare 1950's era, Fehrs Beer, empty 6 pack Cardboard Carton Very hard to find! "It's Always Fehr Weather" American Coating Mills DivisionRobert Gair Company, IncElkhart, Indiana Originally held 6 Beer Bottles Very colorful red. Good condition, except the carton has been broken down for storage. Some light edge wear and minor soiling. Presents very nicely. Be sure to check all the photos, and ask any questions, about condition. This could be fitted with a block of Styrofoam inside, to be displayed well. In 1872, Frank Fehr moved to Louisville, Kentucky and started brewing. He developed the recipe for Fehr’s XL (Extra Lager) and won Louisville’s Southern Exposition, every year from 1883 to 1887. Fehr’s XL was the most widely consumed beer in Louisville when prohibition started in 1920. Fehr’s Brewing sales peaked in 1949 as the brewery began wrestling with competition from large, national breweries. After putting up a good fight for 15 years, Fehr’s last pour was in 1964. Frank Fehr was one of the first brewers to make the “new,” adjunct style beers that quickly became popular in the U.S. He used barley from the upper midwest and rice for a lager with better flavor than the beer that was being made with local 2-row barley. Lagers made before prohibition had more hops than the lagers we have today. Fehr’s pre-prohibition lager uses, some of the first hops to be commercially grown in the U.S. and it finishes with Hops from the Noble family, a centuries’ old hop that gives Fehr’s XL its fresh, clean taste. A few years ago, entrepreneur Dave Easterling brought back the beloved Falls City Beer brand; on May 10, Apocalypse Brew Works in Clifton unveiled Oertel’s 1912, a dark cream beer based on a recipe from Louisville-based Oertel Brewing Company dating to 1912. Local home brewer Jeff Faith is about to finish off Louisville’s Holy Trinity of brewing by brewing Fehr’s X/L, a pre-Prohibition lager based on recipe elements used by the Frank Fehr Brewing Company sometime after the turn of the 20th Century. Many have forgotten – or never knew to begin with – that Louisville was once a top brewing city, ripe with breweries that competed with regional brewing hubs like St. Louis, Milwaukee and Indianapolis. But just about anyone can name the Big Three – Fehr’s, Falls City and Oertel’s – because their grandparents or parents either drank one of the beers exclusively or actually worked at one of the breweries during the 1940s and ’50s. Possibly even both. Faith said the revival of Falls City is what sparked his interest. Jeff Faith. Photo by Kevin Gibson. Jeff Faith. Photo by Kevin Gibson. “I thought, ‘How do you find out if an old name is available?’” Faith, wearing a Fehr’s Beer T-shirt, says on a recent afternoon. Internet searches landed him at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website, where he discovered a man in Hawaii had the Fehr’s name “tied up.” He also found evidence that two others had tried to trademark the name, one of those being Bluegrass Brewing Company, which actually brewed a beer called Fehr’s Darby Ale more than a decade ago. Faith had also contacted Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing Company, which had brewed Fehr’s X/L for a time after the Fehr’s Louisville brewery closed in 1964. But the current owners had no idea who owned the name. However, last year the name became available, and Faith pounced. But there was just one problem: He made a mistake in his paperwork which the other applicants had also made, dealing with the Fehr surname. Faith quickly corrected the issue, re-submitted his application, and now the brand is his. In fact, he has been busy handing out Fehr’s T-shirts and stickers, as well as making tap handles for when the new Fehr’s X/L (which traditionally stood for “extra lager”) becomes available in bars and restaurants around Louisville. The recipe, which Faith derived from information he found in the 1995 book “Louisville Breweries: A History of the Brewing Industry in Louisville; Kentucky; New Albany and Jeffersonville; Indiana,” by Peter Guetig and Conrad Selle. Faith said a recipe description in the book calls for a pound and a half of hops per barrel. “I feel confident I’ve got a recipe that fits,” Faith says, “and I’m using hops that were available at the time and were prevalent in use.” For those wondering what this classic Louisville beer may have tasted like, Faith is excited to share that it is a very accessible, drinkable beer. And while the Frank Fehr Brewery produced a number of different styles, the Fehr’s X/L was arguably the most popular. “Part of the reason I stuck with the lager is I think it will attract more people,” Faith says. “One friend said it reminds him of Yuengling; it is very light up front, and crisp, but it has a hop finish.” Now it’s a matter of finding the right distributor, Faith says. His margin will be minimal regardless, but he wants to keep the beer’s price point down. If he can reach an agreement soon for local distribution, he feels Fehr’s X/L could conceivably be on tap around town by late summer. BBC is going to brew the lager on contract, at least for starters. Meanwhile, keep your eyes peeled for Fehr’s Beer shirts and stickers making appearances around town; Faith says his shirts garner a lot of attention – people get excited to learn a classic Louisville beer is making its way back. “I think it’s mostly because it’s a big part of the history of Louisville,” Faith says. “Fehr’s was huge. They were the first to install the big ice machines; they were supplying ice [to the city]. In 80-some years being in business, they left a mark.” But when it comes right down to it, it’s really about staying true to a classic Louisville beer. “I just hope it’s a good beer people appreciate, really, and I hope I do the right thing with it,” Faith says. “I don’t know, that’s just important to me.”

Price: 17.98 USD

Location: Boonville, Indiana

End Time: 2024-08-05T20:01:51.000Z

Shipping Cost: 7.75 USD