Archive record · Brewery
John F. Oertel Butchertown Brewery
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Archive ID
- TB-MY20PAX9
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
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Summary
Type: Historical brewery. Ownership as recorded: John F. Oertel; William Rueff; Louis Bauer — original 1906 stockholders; Brown-Forman purchased brewery in 1961. CORRECTION: replace earlier 1964 closure claim with 1967; preserve 1961 Brown-Forman acquisition as separate event. [Kentucky Pass 13]
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Where it brewed
- 1400-1404 Story AvenueLouisville, Kentucky
Historical brewery site
Operated by John F. Oertel Butchertown Brewery
The Beer Library
Beers
Cream Common Beer
Common beer / historical product
[Kentucky Pass 13]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Surviving objects
2 objects catalogued here so far, held by University of Louisville Photographic Archives. That is what the archive has recorded, not the extent of what the holder keeps — follow each link for the institution's own finding aid or catalogue. The archive links to each record rather than reproducing its photograph; the images belong to the holding institution and are licensed object by object.
- Oertel's '92 packaging machinery1956-07-24
Film negative
- Oertel's delivery trucks1944-10-25
Film negatives
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