Lemp Bottles

Through the years, the Lemp Brewery used a variety of bottles for their beer. Most bottles were non-brand specific with the exception of Falstaff, their flagship brand. Falstaff Beer was marketed in its own type of bottle, distinguishing it from its competitors and even other Lemp brands.

Below are examples of various bottles used by the Lemp Brewery and their distributors through the years.

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Blob Top Bottles

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Lemp blob-top bottle with Lemp / St. Louis shield; examples range from 9-1/2" to 9-3/4" tall; circa 1895.

Lemp blob-top bottle with Lemp / St. Louis shield; examples range from 11-1/2" to 11-3/4" tall; circa 1895.

William J. Lemp's "Bottle Beer" blob-top bottle from the Omaha Nebraska branch; 11-1/2" tall; circa 1890.

Lemp blob-top bottle with Lemp / St. Louis shield on front and "J. FRYER / FALL RIVER MASS / REGISTERED" on the reverse; 9-3/4" tall; circa 1895.

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Blob-top bottle with "Lemps St. Louis Lager Beer" on the front and "THIS BOTTLE BELONGS TO A. FRIEDMAN & CO. DENVER, COLORADO AND MUST BE RETURNED" on the reverse; 9-7/8" tall; circa 1885.

Hutch style blob top bottle with "Lemp's Extra Pale St. Louis Beer"; 8-1/8" tall; circa 1890.

Extremely rare blob-top bottle with "Lemp's St. Louis Beer A. A. Grome, Agt. Pueblo, Colo." on the front and "THIS BOTTLE NOT TO BE SOLD" on the reverse; 9-1/2" tall; circa 1885.

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Lemp blob-top bottle with Lemp / St. Louis shield and with 'sloped shoulders'; 11-1/2" tall; circa 1895.

Two rare Lemp blob-top bottles from the Lemp Bottling Works in San Francisco, California; 11-1/2" and 9-1/2" tall; circa 1880.

William J. Lemp Brewing Co. "Special St. Louis Lager Beer" blob-top bottle; 11-1/2" tall; circa 1890.

Blob-top bottle from Lemp distributor with porcelain LEMP stopper embossed with "W. F. DeFriest & Co. Boston, Mass Registered"; 9-1/2" tall; circa 1885.

Hutch-style blob-top bottle with "Lemps St. Louis Lager Beer" on the front and "THIS BOTTLE BELONGS TO A. FRIEDMAN & CO. DENVER, COLORADO AND MUST BE RETURNED" on the reverse; 9-3/4" tall; circa 1885.

Blob-top bottle with "W. J. LEMP W & E" (I believe W & E is probably a distributor) on the front and "THIS BOTTLE NOT TO BE SOLD" on the reverse; 9-1/2" tall; circa 1890.

Extremely rare blob-top bottle with "T. W. Wright & Co. Pueblo Agents for Lemp's St. Louis Beer"; 9-1/2" tall; circa 1885.

Crown Bottles

The following are all bottles that used a crown, or bottle cap, to enclose the contents of the bottle.

Crown style bottle with Lemp / St. Louis shield; examples range from 9-1/4" to 9-1/2"; circa 1900. This is a 'transition' bottle that was re-tooled to remove the original blob-top and fitted with a crown top..

Crown style bottle embossed with "REGISTERED LEMPS ST. LOUIS BEER S. L. MUEHLHAUSEN C.C. DIST" (Cripple Creek District); 8-1/8" tall; circa 1900.

Crown style bottle with Lemp / St. Louis shield; 9-1/2" tall; circa 1910. This bottle was used for non-Falstaff brands of beer with the label affixed to the smooth reverse side.

Cerva Soft Drink crown style bottle; 9" tall; circa 1917.

Crown top bottles embossed with the Lemp / St. louis shield specifically for Falstaff Beer; 12" and 9-1/2" tall; circa 1904.

Crown style bottle embossed with "LEMPS ST. LOUIS BEER S.L. MUEHLHAUSEN C.C. DIST. (Cripple Creek District); 9-1/2" tall; circa 1905.

Crown style bottle embossed with "LEMP'S ST. LOUIS LAGER BEER" on the front and "THIS BOTTLE BELONGS TO THE LOUIS M. WEINER WINE CO. DENVER, COLO. AND MUST BE RETURNED"; 8-1/4" tall; circa 1905.

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