lehighvalleybrewery - jesskidden

Lehigh Valley Brewery

Built by The

F&M Schaefer Brewing Co.

1972-1980

Stroh

1980-1999

Pabst

1999-2001

Diageo

2001-2008

Purchased by

The Boston Beer Company June, 2008, operated as

The Samuel Adams Pennsylvania Brewery

(below) F & M Schaefer tour booklet, circa late 1970's

600,000 sq. ft. (14 acres) on 44 acres of property.

1972 capacity of 1.1 million barrels

Phase II expansion (1974) - 2.5m bbl

Final phase (1975) - 5m bbl

Peak Schaefer production around 3.5m barrels 1978

(Tenth largest US brewing company at the time).

Estimated Schaefer cost (1970's) = $60 million

Diageo price (2001) = $29.8 million

BBC price (2008) = $55 million

(above) Fermenting cellar, late 1970's

(below) brewhouse

as seen via Google Earth

(above) A Schaefer era postcard

(below) an artist's rendering from the Stroh era