The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 17, 1906, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 19u. 3 == This huge building, 347 feet long, 98 feet wide and 7 stories high, contains: 200 mammoth Glass Enameled Steel Tanks used solely for the lagering (ageing) of Budweiser. Each Glass Tank weighs 16 Tons, is 70 feet long, g feet in diameter, and holds 1,000 barrels of beer. The combined capacity of the 200 tanks 200,000 Barrels, or 62,000,000 Bottles of Budweiser. These Glass Enameled Steel Tanks were manufac- tured and installed by The Pfaudler Co. Rochester N. Y. at a cost of over half a million dollars. ° It required eight months’ time to manufacture them, and over five miles of freight cars to deliver them to the Brewery. This however is only the first installment. The proved superiority of glass over wood for the lagering and storing of Beer has decided the Anheu- ser-Busch Brewing Ass’n to equip the entire brewery with these Glass Enam- - P I erires, s Budweiser as it leaves the brew kettles is conveyed into Glass-Enameled fermenting vats. After fermentation it is lagered (aged) from four to five months in Glass-Lined Steel Tanks before it is bottled. 200 mammoth Glass Tanks in this building (Stock House No. 10) are required for this purpose. The capacity of these tanks is 200,000 barrels or 62,000,000 bottles of Budweiser. x Budweiser is, therefore, in Glass from the time it is [ brewed until it is consumed. Budweiser 7% T AN - The King of Bottled Beers in 1905 scored a sale of 137,722,150 Bottles \ W\ \\ LIRS AP ) \ Cleanliness, unceasing Care, Knowledge and Skill have resulted - in a Beer so GOOD, and of such UNVARYING QUALITY, that it has made possible the building and maintenance of The Largest Brewery in the World Covers 128 Acres—mors than 70 City Blocks Total Storing Capacity — 600,000 Barrels Gives employment to mnre than 6,000 people . Sales for 1905—1,403,788 Barrels of Beer Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass’n = St. Louis, U.S.A. Ll 0 = e oazas e, "" 77 %27, < 27 7 2L St 5 v, A ol o ltfonfemplofogloercy oy W P VLY vy \ \ -~ ?I % 2, o2 o /2 S EARR) % ([ ’i‘// (L 2 LA e, % -y % P, 27 T 7, %7 L/ ot Ve \ 4 VU v =z Vi T Vo ST L 7 S/~ A Yy ", . 27 Z. ..- 0K 7, s o/ A 7 FIL7 LTS SIS ALY, 'i L% o, Ve, £L7 oL/ A o, vy, vy E/7 -, LK Sy oA, o 9207 /DA 2 LA g, ,4’ ', (17 L/ o5 7, S L/ L/} "y L/ 1/ reaes Z 2 7 .,, [/ "ll' L/ ‘_l . W 2 o (] IABIU T LGS », ~7 'y, l'l""'fi' { H A7 (A L i 7 L/ /24 'i' A s, /- WW2” g