Jason Gray’s photographs that he took for my series of articles about the Lemp Brewery for St. Louis Magazine are of such higher quality than mine that it almost seems pointless for me to take any more pictures of the massive complex. But I was in the neighborhood recently near sunset, and the temptation was…
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Beverley Allen Grave
For all my readers who are fans of Lemp history, I made an interesting discovery in my research of the founder of the dynasty, Adam Lemp. When he purchased the property for the brewery on the Levee in 1844, the seller of the property, James Clemens (yes, that James Clemens), also financed Adam’s loan of…
Louis Bach Grave, Bellefontaine Cemetery
North of his old friend and business partner, Adam Lemp’s grave, there is the family plot of Louis Bach, who also was active in politics and city government in pre-Civil War St. Louis. As my new research will show next summer, Louis Bach and John Kaeckell were active partners with Adam Lemp in the famous…
Western Cable Railroad Right-of-Way
Update: See where the railroad terminated by the ice houses at the Iron Mountain Railroad along the South Riverfront. See more of the ice plant in this post from October of 2021. Coming through the ice house on the Lemp Brewery’s property, a rail line came down Potomac, and curved northward to hook up to…
Lemp Brewery, Early April 2017
Portions of the Lemp Brewery date back to the Civil War, when William J. Lemp Sr. began to build his new brewery right in the shadow of a fort that guarded the city, just to the west. The malt kiln’s first three floors, seen above and below, date back to that time. The malt house,…
Lemp Lagering Cellar and Lines
This postcard must date from the early Twentieth Century because of the Art Nouveau borders on the pictures. But they are stunning, showing the tunnels that allowed beer to move between buildings, a later addition to the brewery. Likewise, the lagering kegs on the right are larger than I thought, and they stand on end,…
Lemp History
Update: The link is now broken. Listen to the podcast where Martin Casas, director of the Saint Louis Swap Meet, interviews me about the history of the Lemp Brewery.
Lemp Impostor Exposed
I wanted to warn my readers that there is a man that had been going around claiming to be a member of the Lemp family, and was even making some modest money off of his reputed identity. Myself and many other professional historians in St. Louis had known for several years of his fraud, but…
Vivid Lemp Brewery
I messed up the settings on my camera, and got this vivid, very blue view of the Lemp Brewery. Never boring to look at it.