LEADING  MANUFACTURERS  AND  MERCHANTS  CITY  OF  BROOKLYN


N. SEITZ'S Son

Brooklyn City Brewery
Nos. 258 to 264 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, E. D.-

The widely known and representative Brooklyn City Brewery, of which Mr. Michael 
Seitz is sole proprietor, was originally established in 1846 in New York city 
by Mr. N. Seitz, who removed it to Brooklyn in 1852. 

In 1871 Mr. Seitz retired, after a successful and honorable career, and was 
succeeded by his son and son-in-law. Eventually in 1873, Mr. Bell, his son-in-law, 
retired, and the business became the property of Messrs. M. and Joseph Seitz 
till 1878, when Mr. M. Seitz became sole proprietor, and has since greatly
extended the trade. 

The brewery is a superior four-story building, 100x100 feet in dimensions, 
fully supplied with all modern apparatus, machinery, and appliances known to 
the trade. The pumps, refrigerators, immense vats, mash tubs, bandelot cooler,
boilers, etc., amid, in fact, all the interior equipments are greatly admired 
by experts, and by those who knew anything about brewing. 

From forty to fifty experienced workmen are employed, and the machinery is 
driven by a fifty-horse power steam engine. The capacity of the brewery is 
eighty thousand barrels annually, and during the year 1885 between forty and 
fifty thousand barrels were sold to customers, and this year between fifty and 
sixty thousand. The cooling process is done by ammonia machines or ice machines, 
and the total quantity of malt consumed was upward of one hundred thousand bushels. 

The beer brewed here is unrivaled for quality, purity, flavor, and excellence, 
and has no superior in this or any other market. It is preferred by thousands to 
any other lager. The superior quality of the malt and hops used, the perfection 
of the machinery and processes, and the experience of the proprietor, all unite to 
give it a superiority and delicacy of flavor rarely, if ever, found in any other brand. 

Mr. Seitz is an authority with regard to everything appertaining to the brewing 
interests, and is highly regarded in commercial and financial circles for his business 
ability, enterprise, and integrity. The lager beer brewed by this old and responsible 
brewery has ever met with the approbation of time best judges, while physicians recommend 
it as a thoroughly pure and healthy beverage, devoid of adulteration or deleterious 
elements. 



With Special Thanks to: Cathy Harrison Speciale
Transcribed exclusively for the Brooklyn Genealogical Information Pages: Nancy E Lutz

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