FALLS CITY BREWING CO. brown embossed bottle.

 

Embossed on shoulder in star: 

FALLS CITY

BREWING CO.

INCORPORATED

LOUISVILLE, KY.

And on the heel:

REGISTERED.

The embossed labeling is small and not easy to read.

The story all began in 1901 when the biggest brewers in Louisville formed one giant company that made ALL the beer and owned almost ALL the tavern real estate in ALL the land. The tavern owners had to rent property and buy their beer from the Central Consuming Company, creating quite the monopoly.  By 1905, the local tavern owners were annoyed and fed up, rightfully so, and decided to come together and start Falls City Brewing Company and the rest is history….or is it?

By 1911, Falls City Beer had an annual production of 75,000 barrels and its first motorized delivery trucks...

Here is the link for the rest of the story. 

The condensed history of Falls City Brewing Company – @fallcitybeer-blog on Tumblr

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).

Embossed Frank Fehr Brewing Company Beer Bottle, Louisville KY.

 

Embossed Frank Fehr Brewing Company Bottle.

Embossed:    FRANK FEHR BREWING CO, LOUISVILLE KY.

Frank Fehr Brewing Co. opened in 1890 and closed in 1901 it was open for 11 years. Items from breweries of this age tend to be more common and less valuable than some breweries. Early items can still be valuable as can rarer types of items. As a Pre-Prohibition Brewery, any advertising items or collectibles are likely to be valuable and desirable to collectors as they tend to be hard to find. Frank Fehr Brewing Co. was in an active brewing city. Louisville, KY was listed as having 37 breweries, which is quite a few. Sometimes a large number of breweries can lead to an active collecting community that will be willing to pay more for breweriana items than other collectors.

Source: Frank Fehr Brewing Co. – KY 36d | Old Breweries Information | Breweriana Values

Below is the embossed bottom of the bottle.

Embossed S B and C (or G) Co.

I am not sure of the glass manufacturer.

If it is SB & G, here is what glassblottlemarks.com says.

• S.B.& G.CO…………………….Streator Bottle & Glass Company, Streator, Illinois (1881-1905).  The Streator plant eventually became part of the American Bottle Company, then later Owens Bottle Company, and finally part of the Owens Illinois Glass Company (Plant #9).  “S.B.& G.CO.” is one of the most commonly seen marks on handblown beer bottles from the late 1800s and early 1900s.  Many, many private brewers and bottlers from the Midwest and eastern United States had bottles specially made for them by Streator.  The mark is also seen on other bottles of the period, including pickle bottles, soda bottles and other containers.

This bottle is broken and badly hazed but still tells a lot.