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Historic Beer Birthday: Caspar Eulberg

April 6, 2022 By Jay Brooks

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Today is the birthday of Caspar Eulberg (April 6, 1826-May 19, 1902). There’s very little information I could find about him. He was born in Kreis Westerburg, Hessen-Nassau, which was then Prussia. He married Franciska Rost, also from Prussia, and together they had ten children, six of whom were boys. At least some of them must have worked at his brewery in Galena, Illinois, because for most of its life it was called Casper Eulberg & Sons Brewery. Originally called Math. Meller Brewery when in opened in 1874, it appears Eulberg acquired it in 1885, changing the name to his own, at least until closed by prohibition in 1920. It tried to open after repeal, under the name Galena Brewing Co., but closed for good in 1936.

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Here’s an obituary of Eulbert from the American Brewers’ Review:

Caspar Eulberg & Sons Brewing around 1900.

This short history is from Northern Public Radio’s “This Week in Illinois History.“

On October 11, 1886, the Galena Daily Gazette reported that Casper Eulberg and his two sons had launched the Galena Brewery. Eulberg had purchased the long-operating brewery a year earlier, running it as C. Eulberg & Sons, but after only six months the entire operation burned to the ground. Eulberg rebuilt bigger and better, with modern machinery and a larger capacity. He changed the name to Galena Brewery. Within a few years, his flagship beer, Red Stripe, became one of the most popular beers in northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin and Iowa.

Red Stripe’s reign continued until Prohibition shut down the brewery in 1920. When Prohibition ended in 1933, the Galena Brewery reopened under new ownership and relaunched Red Stripe, based on the Eulberg family’s formula. In 1935, it trademarked the Red Stripe label but went out of business one year later.

Filed Under: Birthdays, Breweries, Just For Fun Tagged With: History, Illinois



Comments

  1. Matt Eulberg says

    May 29, 2017 at 4:53 am

    It’s Memorial Day and I was wondering where Casper was barried

    • Jay Brooks says

      May 29, 2017 at 10:36 am

      Sorry, Matt. I have no idea. He’s not listed on Find-a-Grave, which is a pretty good resource for such information, and Ancestry.com only has a census listing from 1900, when he was still alive. I’d check local historical societies or similar resources in and around Galena, Illinois.

  2. Neil Spurr says

    June 29, 2018 at 6:22 am

    I am a decendent … And I also live in Galena

    Casper is buried in the St Mary Cemetery – Galena in one of the Eulberg sections… His tombstone is marked: Casper, Apr 6, 1825-May 19, 1902, Co F 49th Wis Vol Inf, Civil War

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