PINE MEER FOUNDATION
BAVARIAN BREWERY EXHIBITS
& THE RIEDLIN - SCHOTT COMMUNITY ROOM
In Conjunction with the Behringer Crawford Museum, Located at the:
KENTON COUNTY (KY) GOVERNMENT CENTER
Lobby and 2nd Floor of the South Wing - in the former Bavarian Brewery Brew/Mill House
1840 Kenton Simon Way, Covington, KY 41011
The Story of the Brewery (1866 - 1966)
Told In A Replica of Its Main Buildings
The main Bavarian Brewery display is a 30-foot by 10 foot structure that resembles the mirror image of the former brewery and is a large story board that tells its history. The windows contain photos, images and text that explain the history of the brewery from 1866 up to its present use as part of the Kenton County Government Center in 2019. For a period from 1995 to 2006 the former brewery was used as Brew Works and Jillian's. Next to the main display is a wall with acrylics of brewery items and a barrel display that shows various bottles, cans, labels, mugs and other brewery artifacts. There are also two display cases upstairs above these first floor displays with additional exhibits in a hallway leading to the Rieldin - Schott Room. The room contains original neon signs, exhibits, fermentation doors and barrel lids that tell the brewery's ownership over a century - particularly before1882. This room also has a display case with Pre-Prohibition items, e.g. a rare Bavarian Vitrolite sign, barrel lid, tray, steins from the Bavarian Tap Room and pictures of the founder, Wm. Riedlin.
Above are photos of the Bavarian Brewery display, exhibits and the Riedlin-Schott Room.
The Schott family of Pine Meer were owners and operators of the Bavarian Brewing Co., which operated the Bavarian Brewery in Covington, KY. They also acquired the former Heidelberg Brewery in Covington in 1949 and a former Bruckmann Brewing facility in Cincinnati a year later. William C. Schott, his brothers and his sons, operated the Bavarian Brewing Company for nearly 30-years, beginning in 1938. The family of his wife, the Riedlin family, previously operated the brewery for over 50-years, beginning in 1882. Some artifacts and Breweriana items the Schott family donated and loaned to the Behringer Crawford museum are shown in the barrel display above. Additional artifacts have been placed display cases on the first and second floors. A web site descibing the brewery's history and artifacts is at www.bavarianbrewery.org.
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The background image is a Pine Meer photograph of the Formal Garden taken in 1929.
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