Schlitz Rhomboid: Brewery Tour
It’s been a while since we created a post from The Schlitz Rhomboid. The Rhomboid was a regular publication produced by Schlitz for the benefit of their employees and stakeholders. It turns out that today, February 24, is World Bartender Day a perfect day to highlight a brewery tour.
This feature from the Summer 1953 edition follows “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” on a tour of the Schlitz Brewery complex. You join them as they sign the “mammoth-sized” guest book and are led through the tour by a uniformed guide. They get to see the gleaming brew kettles, the bottling operations, and finally the famous Brown Bottle where they sit and enjoy a refreshing glass of Schlitz beer.
The Brown Bottle Pub outlasted the Schlitz brand and continued to serve food and refreshments off and on unitl early 2019 when it closed permanently.
We hope you enjoyed the tour. There are plenty of breweries in and around Milwaukee that give regular tours we hope you’ll come and visit soon. Don’t forget to stop by the UW-Milwaukee Archives to learn more about Milwaukee’s brewing history.
