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 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY 379 ery room 24x50. The brewery was supplied with (me of M. W. Altus' coolers, 6x12 feet; an iron mash tub, twenty-seven feet in circumference by four feet six inches in height, and copper beer boilers of thirty-two barrels capacity; also one of Smith's patent malt mills; a cool shop, 20x22 feet, made of sheet iron and brick. The main building was two stories above the basement, and instead of the sample room an office and bottling department was added. In addition there was an ice house built on the refrigera- tor plan, 21x53 feet. The brewery has since been enlarged and completely remodeled at an aggregate expense of $50,000, hav- ing now a capacity of from fifty to sixty thousand barrels annual- ly. It is now a modern, up-to-date plant in every respect. In 1905, Zimmerman & Featherstone became co-partners of the business. July 1, 1909, Mr. Zimmerman bought out Mr. Feather- stone and incorporated under the name of Red Wing Brewing Company. The following are the officers: W. F. Zimmerman, president; Fred G. Haas, vice-president; C. P. Zimmerman, sec- retary and treasurer. L. Hoffmann's Brewery. In 1865, Lorenz Hoffmann bought the Norquist building, corner Bush and Third streets, and started a brewery there. The main structure, or brewery proper, was 23x70 feet; dry kiln, 12x26; ice house, 22x28; engine, 26x32, con- taining one of the Densmore engines ; beer cellar, malt mill, etc., together with all the then modern appliances for making a prime article of beer. John Hartman formerly had a brewery in the southwest part of the city on the Featherstone road. The German business firms and business men of Red Wing in 1909 are: Adler, Schacht & Co., George E. Smith, clothing; Adler & Vihstadt, John Augustine, hardware; B. & F. Koch, A. G. Scherf, jewelers; D. J. Metzler (Nelson & Metzler), plumbing and heating; August Becker, Henry C. Kohn, Henry Maetzold, L. C. Stromberg (Morley & Stromberg), H. W. Santelman, C. H. Tiede- man, grocers; C. E. Friederich (Friederich & Kempe), wholesale grocers ; Charles Steaffens, photographer ; Christ Bender, A. M. Kuhn, druggists; Charles A. Betcher, lumber; George F. Eich- inger, Christ Bombach, George Mueller, cigar manufacturers; Christ Bracher, Hans Holte, D. Wilkens. G. Leutge, meat market; John Reichert, cooper shop; A. & M. C. Remnaler, William F. Zimmerman, brewers; Charles Heidenreich, William Remshardt, blacksmith shops; Scherf Bros., pumps; E. M. Schenach, marble and granite works; G. Trautner, J. Trautner, N. W. Trautner, Red Wing Boat Manufacturing Company; Blumrich Bros., va- riety store; Adolph Gallasch, Red Wing Filter Sand Company: Robert L. C. Geib, undertaker; O. Wernmth, furrier; John A. Ilartnagel, George J. Haustein, Fred Otto, barbers; G. A. Jansen,