Great Shot of the Sebewaing Brewery circa 1979

This photo of the Sebewaing Brewing Company was taken shortly before demolition began. If you look at the window above the word “Sebewaing” the wooden middle pane has fallen to a 30 degree angle. This piece of wood can be seen a different positions throughout the 1970’s. Notice the boarded up window for the Keg and Rack Room along with boarded up doors for the same as well as the Main Office just around the corner from the painted pheasant.

This photo was posted by Janet Feurst Reithel on October 6, 2011 in the Facebook Group “You know you are from Sebewaing, MI when …”. It has the distinction of being the first Sebewaing Brewery related photo to be posted to that group. Here are the brewery related comments from people reminiscing in response:

Scott N Tracy Guillett-Goodale In what year did they tear the brewery down?

Timothy S. Welther 1985, I do believe..

Janet Fuerst Reithel My inefficiency, I did not date the picture. Other pictures taken with the camera (a Kodak instant camera) that I did label with the date were taken from 1979-1981 so the picture was taken during that time frame. Tracy, was your dad Gerry Guillett? If so, he was my cousin. His mother and my dad were brother and sisters.

Scott N Tracy Guillett-Goodale oh wow Janet yes that was my dad!! your Gene’s sister??

Brian K. Schwartz Awesome pic! My Grandfather, Frank Schwartz used to haul beer.

Scott N Tracy Guillett-Goodale Fond memories of the old town…i miss living there at times!

Lori Fisher The brewery seemed so much bigger when I was a kid.

Chuck Kunisch Ok time for another quiz : for you know you are from Sebewaing group. How many types of Sebewaing Beer can you name. And for bonus what type( i.e. Ale, lager) was each beer?

Kyle Dutcher ok, the ones I know of were STOCK ALE, OLD STYLE, SPORT (brown), CLUB (lager), SEBEWAING, GOLDEN PHEASANT, AND SPORT BEER…..Not sure if there were others or not. I still have in my possession a CLUB beer case.

Chuck Kunisch Nicely done there was also POM too “Pride of Michigan”

Brian K. Schwartz If anyone ever gets over to Shaggy J’s in Pigeon, they have a door from one of the beer trucks hanging on the wall.

John Schneider mark…..finally picked up that paper your dad wrote on the brewery from Rod this past sat…..when I’m finished with my project I’ll email picture….better yet I’ll bring it along to the next get together….the final touch was your dad’s signature on it! thanks…meaningful to me

Julie Wenzel Beuschel Bricks from the brewery form a small wall in the village park. My sister, Jan Wenzel, painted a pheasant on it when it was first put up. I’m pretty sure it needed to be repainted over the years, and someone else did that.

Kim Schulz In the Detroit Brewery (somewhere by Comerica park) there is a plaque and a pasteurizer that says it was especially built for the Sebewaing Brewing Co. It’s right when you walk in the door. Very cool… I have a picture of it.

Brent Kundinger That’s Bill Thede’s Travel-all in front of it. I used to ride in that going up to their cabin in Curran for snowmobiling. Scott Thede and I now live in Big Rapids.

Alice Pommerenke For all you ‘young kids’ – in the 30’s we had a sledding hill behind the brewery in the winter time. They would ice the top at night to make it a great start! How do I know? I broke my collar bone slipping on it. Also out front (for a short time) was a cage of lions that would roar when we walked by on our way to town. One year a Christmas tree out there by the sidewalk trimmed w/12 oz Sport bottles, think I still have one.

Scott N Tracy Guillett-Goodale I kinda remember the brewery,gosh that was a longggggggggg time ago!! lol

Robin Gaeth Nice pic… my dad worked there.

Jacklyn Hughes My uncle, Joe Kling, worked there part time when he wasn’t barbering…..he said they could drink all the beer they wanted when they had their breaks! Part of the perks I guess. he’s still alive, by the way….94 years old.