Schmidt's Beer Can Collection | JJ's Auction Service Auction Ends Today

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JJ's Auction Service: Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota



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A different Schmidt's Brewing Company of Philadelphia:

 
William H. Pflaumer was a quintessential Philadelphia character widely known as "Billy" or, more grandly, "Billy the Beer King." The final owner of the brewery that produced Schmidt's - Philadelphia's best-known beer - he was sentenced to federal prison in 1983 for evading more than $125,000 in excise taxes. The Christian Schmidt Brewing Co., between Second and Hancock Streets south of Girard Avenue, was the city's last independent brewery and had been a local institution since 1860.
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