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Valentin Blatz Brewing Company - Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

ClosedOwnership unknownMicrobrewery

Founded: Not recorded
Closed: Year unknown
Archive ID: TB-ZN9KJ3JJ
Last checked: 2026-09-09

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Summary

Type: Historical production brewery. Ownership as recorded: HISTORICAL. National/State Register confirms historic brewery complex and industrial use. Ownership chronology remains open. [Wisconsin Pass 12]

A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.

Ownership & corporate history

Acquired by Pabst Brewing CompanyJuly 1958
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Court later found the acquisition violated Section 7 of the Clayton Act; this was not a clean permanent succession.

Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.

Where it brewed

1101-1147 N Broadway
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
HISTORICAL_PRODUCTION
Operated by Valentin Blatz Brewing Company - Milwaukee
Site detail
Blatz production ceased after the Pabst acquisition period; major historic brewery buildings survive and are listed in the Wisconsin/National Register context. Brand ownership followed a separate path.
260 E Highland Ave
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
HISTORICAL_BREWHOUSE
Operated by Valentin Blatz Brewing Company - Milwaukee
Site detail
Extant Blatz brewhouse; German Renaissance Revival; Louis Lehle associated architect.
c. 310 E Highland Ave
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
HISTORICAL_MILL_HOUSE
Operated by Valentin Blatz Brewing Company - Milwaukee
Site detail
Extant historic mill-house component of Blatz brewery complex.
1501 N Doctor Martin Luther King Jr Dr (historic N 3rd St)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
HISTORICAL_TIED_HOUSE_SALOON
Operated by Valentin Blatz Brewing Company - Milwaukee
Site detail
WHS identifies an early cream-brick brewery-owned Blatz bar, built 1895 and extant; modern facade alterations noted.
1026 S Park St
Madison, Wisconsin
HISTORICAL_DISTRIBUTION_PLANT
Operated by Valentin Blatz Brewing Company - Milwaukee
Site detail
WHS identifies a 1937 Blatz Brewing Company distributing plant designed by Robert Messmer and Bros.; survey marked not demolished in 1983. Current survival of the 1937 fabric has not been separately verified, so no current-visitability claim is made.

These are different physical places. A brewery moving premises is not the same brewery continuing, and the archive keeps them apart.

The People

Behind the beer

Valentin Blatz

Key person

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