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Hussa Brewery
Joseph Hussa
The Hussa
Brewery was operated in Watertown by Joseph Hussa
from 1851 to 1854; he then sold the business and moved to Bangor, near La
Crosse, to open the Joseph Hussa Brewing Company.
Hussa sold the business to a Frederick
Raasch who continued to operate it until 1866. From
there it passed through several different owners, finally ending up in the
hands of John and Ullrich Habhegger.
The brewing business ended when the building burned to the ground in 1871.
Apps, Jerold
W, Breweries of Wisconsin, Univ of Wisconsin Pr (November, 1992)
“The Hussa
brewery (Joseph Hussa Brewing Company, Bangor, La Crosse County) opened in 1858 and closed with
Prohibition. A 1901 newspaper clipping reported:
Born in Prague, Austria-Hungary
on March 17, 1823, Joseph Hussa landed in America at
the age of 27 years. He spent the first years at Fox Lake and Watertown,
Wisconsin where he was a foreman of a brewery. He was a brewer of the good old
school, brewing his beer in the old, approved style, and gained for it a
reputation for superiority. Their Paragon Table Beer, introduced about one year
ago (1900), made of imported rice, Bohemian hops and choice malt, can be
recommended highly for family use, and it can be truthfully said of all the
other products of the brewery that they excel in purity and general
excellence.'
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1: Watertown
Daily Times article
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2: Watertown
Daily Times article
