Ohio Rob
Well-Known Member
RE: When The Bottles Were Young
Surfaceone - I'll try to answer the last questions first. The script bottle is a Schusters Brewing Co. Massillon, O. The Schuster Co has a long history, but they merged for a while with groups from 4 cities forming the Stark-Tuscarawrus Brewing Company (S. T. B. Co) - the name being formed from the two counties the cities were in. The Schuster Branch was the local Massillon Brewery. The script bottle is after they dropped from the merger. Here is a website of the entire history. http://www.beerhistory.com/library/holdings/BBITBS_schuster.shtml
If you read the history, my oldest beer is a blob embossed "Anton Kopp Massillon, Ohio" with the MGW mark. There is an Erhard & Schimke bottle that is also marked MGW. This adds to my contention that the Massillon Glass Works (the oldest of the glass factories in Massillon) used the (MGW) mark. I have dug up four MGW marked blob beers - all right here in Massillon, Ohio. (I'll post them soon).
Surfaceone - I'll try to answer the last questions first. The script bottle is a Schusters Brewing Co. Massillon, O. The Schuster Co has a long history, but they merged for a while with groups from 4 cities forming the Stark-Tuscarawrus Brewing Company (S. T. B. Co) - the name being formed from the two counties the cities were in. The Schuster Branch was the local Massillon Brewery. The script bottle is after they dropped from the merger. Here is a website of the entire history. http://www.beerhistory.com/library/holdings/BBITBS_schuster.shtml
If you read the history, my oldest beer is a blob embossed "Anton Kopp Massillon, Ohio" with the MGW mark. There is an Erhard & Schimke bottle that is also marked MGW. This adds to my contention that the Massillon Glass Works (the oldest of the glass factories in Massillon) used the (MGW) mark. I have dug up four MGW marked blob beers - all right here in Massillon, Ohio. (I'll post them soon).