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was introduced in 1903 by the William J. Lemp Brewing Co.of St. Louis. Falstaff was a very popular premium beer. When prohibitioncame about Joseph Griesedieck purchased the Falstaff name and logo for $2000. He then reorganized his Forest Park Brewery Co. into the Falstaff Corporation. An intersesting note: Joseph's cous ....

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.... Griesedieck died in 1938 and his son Alvin took over. Things stayed this way until 1948 when Falstaff bought the Coulumbia Brewery Co. in St. Louis and began to make Falstaff there. Falstaff had three plants in St. Louis. In 1952 Falstaff bough another Brewery in San Jose. That same year Falstaff closed the former Otto Stiffel brewery in St. Louis. In 1954 they bought the Bergoff Brewery in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. 1956 brought two more aquisitions a brewery in Galveston and the Mitchell Brewery in El Paso. Th ....