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Wineries & Distilleries
The leg's honest shape on this ground is a set of tested negatives: no brewer, brewery, distillery, winery, vineyard, brewpub or meadery has ever been found seated in the town of Osceola or Penn Township, and each negative below shows its search. The county's real brewing record — Muessel and Drewry's in South Bend, Kamm & Schellinger in Mishawaka — is imported at boundary size and labelled wherever it appears, with Osceola's share (custom, never a seat) stated in each article. Conflicts print whole: founding years that differ by source stand side by side, unmerged.
The first brewer as a question, tested on this ground
1850s · OSCEOLA TESTED; THE COUNTY'S FIRSTS AT BOUNDARY SIZE
The question is tested first where the row puts it — on this ground. Searched for this ground specifically: the county histories (Chapman 1880; Howard 1907) and their business and township chapters; the state-gazetteer business…
The flagship family brewery — none on this ground; the county's flagship
1852–1936 · SOUTH BEND (BOUNDARY)
No flagship family brewery — no sons in succession, no brands, no ground given a city — ever stood in Osceola or Penn Township; the test of art-58-1 covers this section's ground and returns nothing. The county's flagship is dug…
The brewery as a company: incorporation, the dated brewhouse, and the dry close
1893–1920s · SOUTH BEND (BOUNDARY); OSCEOLA HAS NO BREWHOUSE TO CLOSE
For Osceola the row closes as a tested negative in one line: no brewery company was ever incorporated on this ground, no brewhouse was ever built or dated here, and so no Osceola plant has a dry close to print — Prohibition…
The longest-lived local house, with its full run
1852–1972 · SOUTH BEND (BOUNDARY); NO ASSOCIATION HOUSE ON THIS GROUND
No brewers' association brewery and no keepers' brewery ever stood on Osceola ground — the art-58-1 test covers it. The longest-lived house in the county record, which is the row's substance, is the Muessel ground itself, and its…
The boundary brewery: Kamm & Schellinger of Mishawaka
1850/1853–1951 · MISHAWAKA (POINTER — CROSS-REFERENCE, NEVER RETOLD)
Pointer only, as the row directs. Kamm & Schellinger Brewing Company, Mishawaka: established by John Wagner on West 2nd Street — 1850 in the company's historical sketch, 1853 in the Tavern Trove chronology, both printed…
Temperance as an actor — on plants that were not here, and on the town that was
To 1933 · OSCEOLA AND THE COUNTY
Temperance can only act on a plant where a plant stands, and on this ground none stood: no Osceola works was picketed, bought out, converted or closed by any temperance crusade in any record reached — the temperance-society and…
The successor on the same ground: Drewry's, 1936–1972, and the brand that would not come home
1 October 1936 – November 1972 · SOUTH BEND (BOUNDARY)
The successor tenure is dated at both ends, as the row requires. Drewry's Limited of Winnipeg — Canada's brewing company founded by E. L. Drewry in 1877 — entering the United States after repeal, purchased the Muessel Brewing…
The ground after brewing: registers, reuses and demolitions
1972–present · SOUTH BEND AND MISHAWAKA (BOUNDARY); OSCEOLA HAS NO BREWERY GROUND
Osceola has no brewery site, so it has no brewery afterlife; this article is the county grounds', at boundary size, to the present. The Muessel-Drewry's ground, 1408 Elwood Ave., South Bend: brewing ended November 1972; the…
The distillers as a searched negative, with its date span printed
1852–2011 · OSCEOLA AND PENN TOWNSHIP — SEARCHED NEGATIVE
Date span searched: 1852–2011 — from the county's first brewery year to the modern era's first-documented distillery year in the floor pattern — printed on the negative, as the row requires; a negative without its span fails the…
The craft era — none on this ground; the county's rooms named
2013/2014–2026 · OSCEOLA TESTED NEGATIVE; SOUTH BEND AT BOUNDARY SIZE
On Osceola ground the craft era has not happened: no brewpub, brewery taproom or craft room seated in the town or Penn Township appears in current directories, the Indiana Brewers Guild / state agritourism listings reached, or…
The first documented distillery of the modern era — and the county's first documented vines
2011 and after · SOUTH BEND (BOUNDARY); “FIRST” CARRIES “DOCUMENTED” THROUGHOUT
“First” in this article always carries “documented,” as the row requires. The first documented modern distillery in the county record reached is the Indiana Whiskey Company, 1115 W. Sample St., South Bend — the St. Joseph County…
The smallest form at true size: the meadery-winery test
Tested November 2026 · OSCEOLA AND THE COUNTY
Printed small because its record is small, as the row directs. Searched for a meadery, a meadery-winery, or any honey-wine maker seated in Osceola, in Penn Township, and — for the boundary — in St. Joseph County: the ISDA…