This is an old Schmidt's beer can I found, tossed aside many years ago. This is Christian Schmidt's of 2nd and Girard Street in Philadelphia. Not to be confused with Jacob Schmidt of St. Paul, Minnesota. There is a difference. Christian Schmidt, fresh to America by way of Germany bought a brewery in Philadelphia in 1860. Passed down through the family for years (eventually sold) it was the number 10 brewer in the US in the seventies and was brewing 3 million barrels by 1986. But a quick demise was to follow and the brewery closed in 1987.
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