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[ABOVE] Illustration of a modern coolship, from the American Brewer magazine.
[BELOW] Two images of the cooling tanks in Geo. Ehret's NYC Hell's Gate brewery, from his 1892 book, Twenty-Five Years of Brewing.
[ABOVE] Illustration from a 1907 ad for Oneida Ale and [BELOW] unnamed pre-Pro NYC brewery from a specialty paint company's brochure.
[BELOW] P. Ballantine & Sons, 1930s
[ABOVE RIGHT] In the mid-1960s, a Lone Star employee monitors the wort in their coolship in a rare picture from below. The coolship seen prominentally in the center in a 1970s brewery flow chart.
Often said to be the last large modern brewery in the US not built by a national brewing company, the mid-1970s F. & M. Schaefer brewery outside of Allentown, PA., was designed using a coolship. Later operated by Stroh, Pabst, Diageo and, today, it is the largest brewery owned by the Boston Beer Co. Said BBC executive, David Grinnell, of the facility:
"(Schaefer) made it something of a vanity project. They put a lot of money into the masonry, and a lot of little details. You can tell the brewery was designed by thoughtful lager brewers to make high-quality, consistent beers."
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