Henry Englehardt


Company Names, addresses, dates1:
  Shuters (or Shooters) Hill Brewery, West end of Duke St., Alexandria VA (1858-1872)
  Henry Englehardt / West End Brewery, West end of Duke St., Alexandria VA (1872-1892)

Notes:
Shuters Hill Brewery, sometimes referred to as "Shooters Hill Brewery", was started in 1858 by Alexander Strausz and John Klein. Shuters Hill is the name of the hill where the George Washington Masonic National Memorial is. The brewery was located near that hill on Duke Street, opposite Diagonal Road. In the 1860s it was confiscated by the Government when Virginia succeeded from the union. From 1865-1872 it was leased out, but it was owned by Frank Denmead1.
Denmead also owned the Arlington Brewery.
Shuters Hill Brewery was the first to produce Lager beer in Alexandria.2.

Henry Englehardt (c.1837-1898)3 was hired by Denmead as the brewmaster2. This may have happened on or before 1866.4 Englehardt purchased the brewery from Denmead in 1872, and may have been leasing it before that.1,2
Advertisements in the 1877/1878 Alexandria Gazette for his brewery refer to it as "Henry Englehardt / West End Brewery", so I assume the brewery was sometimes referred to as the West End Brewery.
Englehardt was born in Bavaria, and came to the USA at age 7. He originally lived in Baltimore, but moved to Alexandria in 1852. Initially he worked as a manufacturer of mineral water, but switched to brewing. Sometime after he got out of the brewery busines, he ran a Saloon at the same location that the brewery was at.3
There is a photo of the brewery at this online article in the Alexandria Times from January 12, 2012 titled Stale Beer: Alexandria's sudsy past.


Bottles:

englehardt_01 book # 230
This is a 9.5" aqua blob top bottle embossed:
round slugplate: H. ENGLEHARDT / ALEXANDRIA / VA
rear: THIS / BOTTLE / NOT TO BE / SOLD


1 American Breweries III Mid-Atlantic Edition by Dale Van Wieren
2 Capital Beer / A Heady History of Brewing in Washington DC by Garrett Peck, page 52
3 Washington Times newspaper, 1898-Aug-24 page 3 (obituary for Henry Englehardt)
4 U.S. IRS Tax Assessment from May-Dec 1866, listing H.Englehardt as a brewer @ West End Fairfax County


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This page last updated on November 11, 2020.