Today is the birthday of Frederick “Fritz” Brekle [sometimes spelled “Breckle”] (March 5, 1849-July 30, 1897). I can find almost nothing about Brekle, apart from he was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, and he opened the Frederick Brekle Brewery in 1896, but it closed shortly thereafter, when he became ill, and he died the next year, in 1897. It was located at Point Lobos Road and Boice (or Boyce) Street.

After his father Carl Gottlieb “George” died in 1888 he took over operations of his Golden City Brewery in San Francisco. He ran that brewery for only about nine years, at which point he he died in 1897 at age 49 years. The brewery then became know as the Anchor Brewing Co. starting in 1896.

Dave Burkhart, in his book, “The Anchor Story,” has some more information on Fritz: