Jacob Schmidt Adolph Bremer City Club Beer The Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company is a former brewing company that was located at 882 W. Seventh Street in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Stahlmann succumbed to tuberculosis on December 2, 1883, leaving the company to his three sons, all of whom also died within the next decade: Henry Conrad Gottlieb, the eldest (d. May 2, 1887); Bernhard, the middle (d. July 3, 1887); and Christopher Adam John, the youngest (d. December 27, 1893).

At the time of Christopher Stahlmann' and his three sons' deaths, the grandchildren were all too young to operate the brewery.

By 1898, the job had fallen on Frank Nocolin, the second husband of Henry Stahlmann's widow, Anna.

After the death of his first wife, he met the widow Anna Mitsch Stahlmann, and they married shortly after.

Upon Schmidt's death in 1911, the Bremers took full control of the company and continued to see success and growth.

Thanks to a long-standing friendship between the Bremers and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Schmidt's was granted a contract from the government to supply beer to the troops.

This tactic, along with the need to update the multitudes of smaller breweries the company had purchased, many of which had been poorly maintained, struggled with inefficiency problems and slumping sales since Prohibition, led the company to bankruptcy and dissolution in 1972.

At this time, the company and all of its assets were sold to G. Heileman of La Crosse, Wisconsin.

In 1991, a group of local investors reopened the brewery under the name of the Minnesota Brewing Company.

The two names with the most votes were Landmark in first and Pig's Eye in second; the former was a nod to the brewery's iconic status in the West End St. Paul neighborhood, and the latter referred to the man credited with founding St. Paul, Pierre Parrant.

Landmark beer was met with little success and in 1992 the brewery released Pig's Eye Pilsner to much affair.

[clarification needed] The company started to revitalize the Grain Belt brand and began contract brewing for many small independent companies, including Pete's Wicked Ale, one of the first craft brewers in Minnesota.

While renovation on the main brewery building is yet to be completed, Dominium has removed the Landmark sign and has stated it plans to replace the old flashing Schmidt's sign that once lit the west St. Paul night sky.