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EMILIE LINDEMANN
FOXHEAD BREWING CO., WAUKESHA, WI
Emilie Lindemann during Prohibition took control of what was then called the Foxhead - Waukesha Corporation upon her father, Charles Manegrove, Jr's death in 1928 .
During the final years before Repeal her brewery's barrelage of near beer was 60% of that of it's pre-Prohibition total of real beer - a remarkably high percentage for most of the near beer brewers still in business.
"Lindemann long ago acquired a technical knowledge of brewing. She is consulted regularly on technical processes and on her semi-weekly visits into the plant in Waukesha hold conferences with the brewmaster, plant superintendent and department heads."
--- THE AMERICAN BREWER
October, 1933
She left the management of the brewery during WWII, after re-marrying and moving to Milwaukee.
At the time Foxhead was among the largest brewers in Wisconsin outside of the large national firms in Milwaukee (Schltz, Pabst, Blatz and Miller), with an annual barrelage of between 150-200,000 bbl.
Elizabeth Hornung took over her husband's JACOB HORNUNG BREWING CO., during Prohibition, after his 1925 death.
She ran the brewery until her own death in 1940 at the age of 88.
Elizabeth and her husband arrived in America in 1880, both coming from families of brewers in Stuttgart Germany. They opened a small saloon and began brewing beer, on the same Philadelphia site of the modern Hornung brewery.
In 1941, Hornung was the 7th largest brewery in Philadelphia out of the city's total of eleven, with a barrelage of over 62,000 bbl.
Emma Marti became president of the Schell brewery after the death of her husband, George Marti (1856 - 1934), who had been president of the brewing company since 1911. She would serve in that position until her own death in 1940.
Cecelie Spoetzl was the daughter of founder Kosmos Spoetzl of Shiner, Texas' Spoetzl Brewing Co.
Known as "Miss Celie" she continued to operate the small Texas brewery after her father's death in 1950, selling the brewery to a former Lone Star brewmaster, William Bigler, in 1966 when it was clear that neither her brewer, Gus Haslbeck (Kosmos' nephew) nor her daughter were interested in owning the brewery.
Cecelie Spoetzl on the day she sold the brewery to "Bill" Bigler, left.
[RIGHT]"Miss Celie" and her daughter, Rosa Leach with other Spoetzl execs introduce the one-eight barrel (3.875 gallon) Shiner Pony Keg in 1964.
German-born Petra Seidl was a brewer at the Old Munich Brewing Company, Miami, FL., a short-lived (1972 -1974), Swiss/German-owned brewery. It was essentially an "extract brewery" - a concentrated wort was produced in Germany and shipped to the US, where it was mixed with "secret ... specially-treated, carbonated water" and then be "...fermented, aged, bottled in the USA" according to the label of Biber Brau.
In April of 1980, Schlitz's promotion of Marge Wyszynski to the position of Assistant Master Brewer at its Los Angeles brewery would make the national wire service UPI, the story reprinted in numerous newspapers, with a typical headlines including:
"LADY BREWMASTER KEEPS BEER BUBBLING"
Wyszynski had a masters degree in Chemistry from Marquette University and was working at a local Milwaukee hospital as a research chemist when hired by Schlitz. She then took an intensive 3 month course at Chicago's Siebel Institute of Technology brewing school, where her class was reportedly the first to include women.
"A REAL HEAD ON HER SHOULDERS"
Stern at New Albion's grain bin.
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