Thank you for visiting my site. This site's main purpose is to provide an online database of Falstaff Breweriana. There are now over 1000 images available with about a thousand more to add. Most items pictured are in my collection, though I have had generous contributions from other collectors and former employees. Most notably from Henry Enos, who has an extensive high grade collection. I have added credit captions to items provided from other collectors. If you would like to contribute photos or information of items in your collection it would be highly appreciated.
There are several other excellent sites that feature the history of Falstaff, most notably John Smallshaw's site at www.falstaffbrewing.com/. I plan to provide links to the various sites when it seems appropriate. Hopefully this site will add some small bit to the information provided by the other sites.
For collectors of Falstaff breweriana, there are three distinct periods.
1. Falstaff as a brand of Lemp Brewing of St. Louis, Missouri. Approximately 1903 to 1917.
2. Falstaff Brewing Corp. 1917-1975
3. Falstaff as a brand/subsidiary of General Brewing of Mill Valley, CA 1975-2005. General has and does brew under it's own name and any number of others. At present it uses the Pabst brand as it's primary brewing name. The company is owned by the Kalmanovitz Charitable Trust.
The Lemp and Falstaff years provided an almost endless stream of breweriana. Advertising, promotion and packaging items were creative, highly varied and for the most part abundant. There is also a large body of business and manufacturing items available. The General Brewing years have not been so generous to the collector. There were some early promotions but as time went on almost all promotion was eliminated until not only promotion but the brand itself was terminated. My guess is that there may be some connection between the lack of promotion and death of the brand. Most breweriana from this era is related to packaging; cans, labels, crowns and such.
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