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F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company was a Manhattan brewing company. ==History== It was founded in 1842 by brothers Frederick Schaefer and Maximilian Karl Emil Schaefer (1819–1904), natives of Wetzlar, Prussia, Germany. They emigrated to the U.S. in 1838. They acquired the Sebastion Somers Brewing Company. How this was managed, and what brewing experience the pair brought from Germany, is unclear.〔 What they did bring was a recipe for lager beer, reputedly brewing the first such light, crisp, cold brewed and cold aged beer in America.〔 In time the operation proved highly successful, rising into the number six slot among American brewers by 1871.〔 Max's son, Rudolph Jay Schaefer, took over as president until his death in 1923. The firm had a large brewery complex on Park Avenue in New York City and caves for lagering its beer along the East River. In the early 20th century it sold the valuable plant real estate and opened a new brewery in Brooklyn.〔 By the 1950s and again in the 1970s Schaefer was the number five beer in America.〔(Shakeout In The Brewing Industry )〕 As it grew it purchased several regional breweries, including in Albany, New York, Cleveland, Ohio, and Baltimore, Maryland. A $106 million public stock offering was held in 1968, with the F.& M. Schaefer Corporation emerging as a holding company for its production subsidiary, the Shaefer Brewing Company. Pursuing greater efficiency, it built a large, high-output plant in Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley, which opened in 1972 and resulted in closure of the company's remaining satellite breweries.〔 In 1974 it was expanded from its original 1,100,000 barrels-per-year capacity to 2,500,000 and then, in 1975, it expanded again to 5,000,000 barrels plus.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=F&M Schaefer Brewing Company )〕 In 1981, Schaefer was acquired by Stroh Brewing Company which, in turn, was acquired by Pabst Brewing Company in 1999.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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