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Milbank Brothers
| Name | Milbank Brothers |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Madison Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Brauerei |
| Anmerkungen | Lage: Ecke Madison und Oliver streets |
| Quellenangaben | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 158] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1812 |
Samuel Milbank, ein Brauer aus Philadelphia, kommt vor dem Krieg von 1812 nach New York. |
| 1834 |
Nachdem John Murray, Jr., ausschied, führte Samuel Milbank, Sr., das Unternehmen bis 1834, als sein Sohn Samuel die Nachfolge antritt. |
| 1862 |
Bau eines fünfgeschossigen Gebäudes an der Madison Street |
| 1865 |
Tod von Samuel Murray. Seine Söhne Charles E., Samuel W. und Albert J. Milbank werden seine Nachfolger. |
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Kommentar |
| Bier |
1868 |
[Bishop: Hist. of Amer. manuf. I (1868)] |
1868 |
[Bishop: Hist. of Amer. manuf. I (1868)] |
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| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | At the corner of Madison and Oliver streets, is one of the time-honored institutions of the city, forming a link connecting the metropolis of today with the New York of the past. A portion of the site on which it stands was occupied as a brewery before the Revolutionary War, and one of its early proprietors was John Murray, Jr., a Quaker and a philanthropist, the brother of Lindley Murray, whose educational works were at one time the text books in all schools. John Murray, Jr., was the Treasurer of what was probably the first society organized for the abolition of slavery, called "The Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting such of them as have beea or may be Liberated", of which John Jay was President. General Washington, when he resided in New York, obtained ale at this Brewery, and John Hancock was one of its patrons. The firm at the commencement of the present century was Murray & Cunningham, which was shortly afterward changed to Murray & Milbank, the partner being Samuel Milbank, a brewer of Philadelphia, who came to New York before the war of 1812. After John Murray, Jr., retired from its management, Samuel Milbank, Sr., conducted the business until 1834, when he was succeeded by his son Samuel, who prosecuted it until his decease in 1865, when it passed into the hands of his three sons, the present proprietors, Charles E., Samuel W., and Albert J. Milbank. The present building is new, having been erected in 1862, is five stories in height, and has a front on Madison street of forty-three feet, and a depth of one hundred and twenty-five feet. The boiling coppers are of metal, with a capacity of one hundred and one hundred and twenty barrels respectively, and, what is unusual in similar establishments, are located on th-e top floor. All the boiling and heating are performed by steam. The hop back is of iron, with a false bottom of galvanized iron, and the mash tuns are square, a form that, it is believed, is peculiar to this establishment. All the important vessels are constructed of metal, which has a tendency to prevent sourness in the Ale, and at the same time facilitates cleanliness. The only cooler used is Baude-lot's Patent Refrigerator, of which the principle was originated, and the process adopted by Samuel Milbank fifteen years before it was patented. The original refrigerator of this description is still preserved in the establishment. When the worts have been cooled to the proper temperature, they are discharged into the fermenting tuns, and after the active fermentation is over, they are racked off into puncheons of large capacity, where it is cleansed of the yeast, and refined. In the cellar there are twenty-pine storage vats, capable of holding from one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty barrels each. Attached to the Brewery is a malthouse, with facilities for malting fifty thousand bushels of grain. The Brewery has a capacity for producing about forty-thousand barrels of Ale and Porter per annum. This establishment, though not so large as some others, is believed to be a model in the completeness of its arrangements, and Milbank's Ale has a reputation unsurpassed by any. The author of the Old Merchants of New York can scarcely repress his enthusiasm in speaking of this Ale. He says : "The Ale from that time-stained Brewery is Ale. One pewter mug full of that is more precious than a big Missouri river of Lager. I am bursting with patriotism as I close this chapter, and am determined never to touch or taste a glass of porter or ale unless the patriotic vender of it can exhibit a certificate that it comes from John Murray's old Brewery, up at 70 Madison or 48 Oliver street." |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 158] |
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