[1] Valentin Blatz was born in Miltenberg, Kingdom of Bavaria,[2] and worked at his father's brewery in his youth.

It incorporated as the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company in 1889 and by the 1900s was the city's third largest brewer.

Blatz was a freemason and member of Aurora Lodge No.30 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

[3] Blatz died in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 26, 1894, while returning home to Milwaukee from a trip to California.

He is buried in a massive family mausoleum at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee.