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1852 — 1972
Why they stand here at all: Four miles west, in a separate city with its own build, stand the other two breweries of the Muessel nomination's three-brewery frame, and a reader of this city's making record will meet their names and should be told plainly whose they are. They are carried here the way this city's brewery is carried in South Bend's build — at boundary size, the full record in the home build.
The pointers: The Muessel brewery of South Bend — Christopher Muessel's house of 1852/53, incorporated 1893, the region's first brewery by its nomination's frame — passed in 1936 to Drewry's Limited of Winnipeg as its first United States plant, reached 1.25 million barrels in 1965, and brewed its last cases in November 1972 under Heileman; its ground was listed as a historic district in 2000 and demolished in 2017 and 2023–24, one smokestack left. The South Bend Brewing Association — the saloon keepers' own brewery of 1903 — converted to soda and ice in the dry years and brewed again after Repeal to 1950. South Bend's modern makers stand in its build as well: the Indiana Whiskey Company, its first documented distillery (sales from 2013); Ironhand Vineyard, the county's first documented vines (planted 2008); Perry Vine, its meadery-winery; and its craft rooms from South Bend Brew Werks (2014) forward. One reciprocal note, flagged for that build's next update from this one's evidence: the distillery trading as the South Bend Distillery is seated in Mishawaka, at 55954 Currant Road, and is carried in this section's modern-distillers entry as Mishawaka's by seat; South Bend's build does not yet pointer it.
The settled boundary: South Bend's wineries fragment carries Kamm & Schellinger at boundary size — founded 1850, first structures 1853, the Kamm and Dick purchase of 1870, Schellinger's succession in 1880, incorporation in 1883 at $65,000 capital, output about 30,000 barrels, beer ended 1951, the complex surviving as the 100 Center. This section is the record that entry pointed to, and it settles the entry's open edges in the entries above: the founding sits inside De Kever's earlier dating of Wagner's operation to 1839; the union is carried two ways (1879/1880); the incorporation is carried two ways with the legal record ranked first (1883 / March 1887); the output series runs past the boundary entry's figure to 75,000 barrels by 1918 and a 150,000-barrel rated capacity; and the end is carried two ways (1951 governing, the Tribune's 1952 in print). Nothing in the boundary entry is contradicted; its datings stand as the compressions they were, and the full record now stands where it said it would — in this city's build.
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