Anheuser-Busch


Company Names, addresses, dates1:
  Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, 1st and Va Ave SW (1888-1905)
  Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, Va Ave c E street SW (1906-1910)
  Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, Del Ave & E street SW (1911-1917)
  Anheuser-Busch Inc, 58 E SW (1923-1936)

Notes:
Anheuser Busch was based in St Louis Missouri, but they had a branch in Washington DC. A 1910 Washington Star newspaper ad listed their Faust beer for 10 cents a bottle, phone 3250, August Brill Mgr. Another of their ads lists Budweiser beer.


Bottles:

anbusch_01 (enlarge) This is a 9" aqua blob top bottle embossed:
front: TRADE MARK / (eagle inside letter 'A') / ANHEUSER BUSCH BREW ASN / ST. LOUIS, MO. / WASHINGTON, D.C.
back: JOHNS BROS F W VA
I painted some of the embossing with washable water colors just to make it stand out.
anbusch_06 (enlarge) This is similar to the bottle above, but the embossing is slightly different. It has an extra ribbon at the bottom that says "ST LOUIS MO" and the eagle is looking to the side instead of up. It's a 9" aqua blob embossed:
front: TRADE MARK / (eagle inside letter 'A') / ANHEUSER BUSCH BREW ASN / ST LOUIS MO. / WASHINGTON, D.C.
back: E H E CO
anbusch_02 (enlarge) These 3 bottles are BIM crown top bottles. The left is 9.25" SCA, the center is 9" clear, and the right is 9.25" aqua. They are embossed:
front: TRADE MARK / (eagle inside letter 'A') / ANHEUSER BUSCH BREWING ASN / WASHINGTON, D.C.
back: REGISTERED
The left has a "3" on the bottom, the center has "SB&G Co" on the bottom, and the right has nothing on the bottom.
anbusch_03 (enlarge) These are BIM crown top bottles. The left is 9.25" aqua and the right is 9.5" amber. They are both embossed:
front: TRADE MARK / (eagle inside letter 'A') / ANHEUSER BUSCH BREWING ASN / WASHINGTON, D.C.
back: REGISTERED
bottom: SB&G Co
These differ from the bottles above in that their logo is higher on the shoulder.
anbusch_04 (enlarge) These are 9.75" BIM crown top bottles. The left amber and the right is aqua. They are both embossed:
front: TRADE MARK / (eagle inside letter 'A') / ANHEUSER BUSCH BREWING ASN / WASHINGTON, D.C.
back: REGISTERED
bottom: OB CO / 1088 / 2
These differ from the bottles above in that their logo is larger and much lower.
anbusch_05 (enlarge) This is a 9.1" aqua BIM crown top embossed:
front: TRADE MARK / (eagle inside letter 'A') / ANHEUSER BUSCH BREWING ASN / ST LOUIS MO. / WASHINGTON, D.C.
It differs from the bottles above in that the logo is larger and it has the extra ribbon on the bottom that says "ST LOUIS MO".
anbusch_07 (enlarge) This is a 9.5" amber machine-made crown top with a label. It's marked:
embossing: ANHEUSER BUSCH (eagle inside letter 'A')
label left:(picture of swordsman in red suit with cape)
label right:(picture of eagle inside letter A)
label center:FAUST BEER / Anheuser Busch, St. Louis / BOTTLED FOR LOCAL TRADE BY / ANHEUSER BUSCH BRANCH, WASHINGTON, D.C / GUARANTEED BY ANHEUSER BUSCH UNDER THE PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT, JUNE 30th 1906, SERIAL NO ??89

Other Items:
an_busch_1887 (enlarge) This is an advertisement from the 1887 book "Washington Hisorical sketches of the Capital City of our Country", by John P. Coffin. The book says Anheuser-Busch of St Louis was the largest brewery in the world and employed more than 1200 hands. It goes on to say that the ofice & depot in DC was under the management of Mr. Frank Schwarz, and stocked "Pale Lager", "Faust Beer", "Original Budweiser", "Erlanger" and "Standard".2


1 Boyd's Directory for the District of Columbia (various years)
2 Washington Historical sketches of the City of our Country by John P. Coffin




Back to my bottle home page.


This page last updated on December 23, 2011.