Tuesday, July 14, 2020

100% Pure

Lee Beverage of Wisconsin is one of the largest beer distributors in the state, but the company got its start in the beer business by selling malt extract to homebrewers in Oshkosh. Here's an ad from the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern of July 9, 1926, when Harry Lee and William Precour were owners of the company. They had launched their business in 1925 selling coffee they roasted.


More on the early years of what became Lee Beverage can be found here.

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