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1918–1933 · KAMM & SCHELLINGER'S DRY YEARS
The survival: Indiana went dry in 1918, ahead of the nation, and Mishawaka's brewery simply changed what came out of the kettles. The beer brands run to 1918 in the brewery-trade record; from 1918 to 1933 the house at West 2nd Street — by then the largest industrial survivor of the founding generation, incorporated in 1883 as Kamm & Schellinger with, the period account notes, the president's daughter Laura Kamm as its secretary — made no beer at all. Instead it sold cereal beverages (Arrow, K&S Special, a K&S Bock Brew), root beer and root-beer syrup, K&S Grape, and a line of soft drinks and syrups whose brand names survive in the trade record like a soda fountain's menu: Emral Julepy mint drink, Emral Mint Syrup, Julade orange drink and Julade Syrup. That is the documented Prohibition course at Mishawaka: where a brewery without a soft-drink line simply died, this one spent fifteen dry years as a soda works and brewed again at repeal, in 1933, under its own name. The end of the course is carried two ways and printed whole in the Businesses section: the state marker, the National Register line and the trade timeline close the brewery in 1951; the Tribune's 1993 retrospective gives 1952.
Sources: the Businesses section of this history — the Tavern Trove brewery record for Kamm & Schellinger: beer brands to 1918; the Prohibition products of 1918–1933 (Arrow and K&S cereal beverages, root beer, K&S Grape, the Emral and Julade lines); brewing resumed 1933; the 1951/1952 closing conflict printed whole; Indiana Historical Bureau marker 71.1995.1 and the National Register listing (ref. 79000042) for the plant and the 1883 incorporation, the period company account for Laura Kamm's secretaryship.