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Lion Brewery – Label Fun Casey & Kelly’s Ale
18 February 2010
I know very little about this label other than it is a pre-prohibition label called Casey & Kelly’s Ale bottled by Anton Frank, Wilkes-Barre, PA. Any info out there?
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Casey & Kelly were a liquor dealer in Scranton before Prohibition, and their well-told story of success, which included a brewery, can be found here: http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/hotel-casey-symbolized-city-s-affluence-culture-1.400770
Thanks Sam...how did I know you'd probably know.
A bit off-topic (still beer tho'!), but the article "sam k" linked to is totally off base re: "Burke's Guinness Stout". E. & J. Burke was an Irish bottling company (Guinness did not bottle) run by relatives of the Guinness family and was given exclusive rights to the US market for their version of bottled Guinness - altho' other bottlers' Guinness would show up here, as well, "Burke's" was in effect the "official" brand.
Burke would actually open a post-Repeal brewery outside NYC, which would later be taken over by Guinness to brew their stout in the US.
http://sites.google.com/site/jesskidden/guinnessinamerica
wow very interesting. I'll check that out.
Yeah Jess, there are other inaccuracies, notably the fact that a lot more breweries were involved in the organization of the Pennsylvania Central Brewing Company than just Casey & Kelly and E. Robinson. It seemed to be a decent overview of the C&K enterprise for all I know, though!
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