John F. Oertel Butchertown Brewery
Louisville, USA
From the record
What we have established
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]
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 held by University of Louisville Photographic Archives. 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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