Edward Drewry
This file appears in: A Toast to the Old North Star Brewery
One of the earliest breweries in Saint Paul, the North Star Brewery opened in 1855 by Edward Drewry and George Scotten who were Scottish and English immigrants. Unlike the Germans, Drewry and Scotten favored the production of ales.
Date: Approximately 1902
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
This file appears in: A Toast to the Old North Star Brewery
A Toast to the Old North Star Brewery
German immigrants were one of the first large groups of immigrants who flooded into Saint Paul when Minnesota became a Territory in 1849. And, as it turned out, they knew a great deal of the “inns”…