Brown Fehr's Beer Bottle with Embossed Label.

FEHR'S Beer Bottle.

I've not found much information on this Fehr's beer bottle yet, but I did find the pair of Fehr's bottles sold on eBay (shown below).

Vintage Fehr's beer bottles.

The green bottle on the left seems to have the same label as the brown one at the top of the post

Generally, before the 1930's beer came in green bottles, but after the Prohibition they were bottled in brown glass to better preserve freshness by filtering out the sunlight. So, it seems that the brown bottle is later. And it looks like it.

I've found very little information on the Fehr's beer company.  I assume, though, that it is the same as the Frank Fehr Brewing Company of Louisville, KY.


In 1872, Frank Fehr moved to Louisville, Kentucky and started brewing. He developed the recipe for Fehr’s XL (Extra Lager) and won Louisville’s Southern Exposition, every year from 1883 to 1887.

Fehr’s XL was the most widely consumed beer in Louisville when prohibition started in 1920.

Fehr’s Brewing sales peaked in 1949 as the brewery began wrestling with competition from large, national breweries. After putting up a good fight for 15 years, Fehr’s last pour was in 1964. 

Source: fehrsbrewing.com | It' Always Fehr Weather

I did a post on an older bottle from the Frank Fehr Brewing Company (shown below).