Griesedieck Brothers

The Griesedieck name has seen quite a lot of action throughout brewing history. Family’s legacy started in 1711 with Johann Heinrich Griesedieck in Oelde-Stromberg, Westphalia. Just over one hundred years later, in 1870, his great-grandsons Anton, Franz, and Heinrich traveled to St. Louis in pursuit of the American Dream. Anton and Heinrich used their brewery knowledge to open a malt house in south St. Louis City for eight years. They eventually operated multiple breweries, including the A. Griesedieck & Co. Brewery, the Phoenix Brewery, and the National Brewery. Franz’s son, Henry L., eventually opened the Griesedieck Western Brewery in Belleville. One of Anton’s sons, Joseph, was in the first graduating class at the U.S. Brewing Academy in New York in 1870. He, and his brother, Henry, involved themselves in the tradition of their forefathers, and besides working at their father’s brewery, came to manage the Independent Breweries Company in 1906.