Kentucky Common
Usually referred to today as "Kentucky Common", during its pre-Prohibition heyday it would often be called "Louisville Common" in the region.
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(ABOVE) Similar Oertel ads from 1899 and 1917 in which they've dropped the use of the term "Common". As noted in the article (BELOW LEFT) "BREWERY TO BE DISPOSED OF AT AUCTION" about the Prohibition-related auction of Oertel, locally the top-fermented "Common Beer" was also referred to as "Cream Beer" or just "Dark Beer".
Consumer Brewing Co.'s Phoenix brand used both "Komon" and "cream beer" to describe its brew in a 1915 ad. (BOTTOM OF PAGE)
SEE ALSO----> A few examples of post-Repeal "Common Beers" from area brewers.
Above 1917 ads - Both John F. Oertel and Fall City Brewing Co. would survive Prohibition and re-open after Repeal, brewing lager beer.
Diersen's ads 1900s
(ABOVE LEFT) A comparison is made between San Francisco region's "steam beer" and Kentucky common in an 1893 Louisville Courier article on local common and lager beer brewer, M. Christ & Sons.
The brewery of E. Hochgesang makes the best of healthful common malt beer, and the devotees of Gambrinus love to sit by the hour and quaff its products. We are not informed as to the amount of the business, but from the amount of drank and shipped it must be pretty large.
--- The Jasper Weekly Courier, April 13, 1883
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