"Ludwig (Louis) Schneider in 1849 established a brewery on the site of his barrel making factory on Augusta between John and Smith Streets, close to the Ohio River. Later, he leased this property to Sandmann and Lackman for their brewery. However, in 1861 Schneider returned with Phillipp Ammann to reopen his brewery business. Then in 1865 he sold the Augusta Street site to the Mitchell and Rammelsberg Furniture Company. Two years earlier the brewery was moved to Freeman  Avenue at Court Street. There it was known as the Louis Schneider Brewing Company, also know as the Queen City Brewery.

When Louis Schneider was forced to retire because of illness, his son, Peter W. Schneider was joined by Henry Foss and John Brenner. The company became Foss, Schneider, and Brenner. In 1877 Henry Foss bought out Brenner's share. Then the company became the Foss-Schneider Brewing Company.

The Freeman Avenue brewery plant was 250 feet square and a very imposing edifice. The facade was pressed brick trimmed with cut stone and terra cotta. Three hundred and fifty barrels per day was the average production. The bottling department was added to the brewery in 1879 and was located on Fillmore Street, just north of the main building. 

In 1863 the output was 5,000 barrels a year. In 1870, 20,000 were produced. Ten years later, the production increased to 40,000 and doubled again in 1890. By that time, John H. Foss, vice-president, and P. W. Schneider, secretary and treasurer. 

The brewery was incorporated in 1884. The same year, the second highest flood in Cincinnati's history reached the brewery. The foundation of the malt house was undermined and it collapsed. Sixty thousand bushels of malt were lost. Nevertheless, work at the brewery continued and more beer was produced that year than in 1883. A new brewery plant was then completed by 1885 and by 1894 the annual output exceeded 80,000 barrels.

By 1819 the company officers were John G. Broxterman, president; Adelaide Foss, vice-president; and Edward A. Foss, secretary and treasurer. They produced 'Nonpareil', 'Export', 'Congress Club' and 'Capital' beers.

Prohibition forced the brewery to close in 1919 but it did reopen under the same management in 1933. Edward A. Foss was president; A. Foss, vice-president; Edward G. Schneider, second vice-president; Edward H. Foss, secretary and treasurer.

The brewery closed in November, 1937 and the buildings were sold in May, 1938. Nothing remains of these structures today." Cincinnati Breweries, Robert J. Wimberg (1997)

"While brewing operations at this large plant on Freeman street, on the city's near west side, began in 1862, the company's origins go back to 1849. Louis Schneider had begun brewing beer in that year at his converted barrel factory on Augusta Street, near the Ohio River. Known as the City Brewery, it was then leased for $50 a month to Herman Lackman and J. H. Sandmann, who operated it from 1855 to 1860 before leaving to build a larger plant on the west side of downtown. Schneider returned to brewing after that, and by 1863 he had outgrown this small original plant and moved to a new location, where he built a completely new, modern plant at 259-267 Freeman Street (after being rebuilt in 1884, the address was 279-297, and this was later renumbered as 943-1005 Freeman). This new plant was known as the Queen City Brewery, and Schneider operated with his son Peter until 1867, when he retired due to ill health."  Brewing Beer in the Queen City, Vol. V, Robert A. Musson, M.D. (2014)

"Louis Ullman and Edgar Mack Sr., partners since 1904, operated the Red Top Malting Company during Prohibition. In 1933 still at the old Hauck Brewery on Central Avenue, they began to brew Red Top Beer which became quite popular locally. In the beginning, they sold about 50,000 barrels of beer a year, but by 1939 they sold 259,000 annually.

In 1946 Ullman and Mack bought the old Clyffside Brewery on McMicken Avenue and Stonewall Street for over $1,000,000. In the following year production was increased to 650,000 barrels of beer annually. Howard Ullman was made president in 1951 and he pushed the company to become one of the largest breweries in Ohio. The beer was sold in twenty states. 

However, profits started to decline as the fifties progressed. In 1954, in hopes of boosting falling sales figures, the company hired Tommy Heinrich, a former baseball star, as president. Then Wunderbrau Beer, 'Das Trocknen Lager' was introduced. An expensive television helped increase sales of the new beer, but only temporarily. Frank Scoby of Better Brands, Inc., which distributed Miller Beer out of Chicago, gained control of the Red Top Brewery. Tommy Heinrich resigned. He had lost $1,000,000 in three years through his management. The brewery closed in 1957.

In 1955 Red Top Produced Red Top, Barbarossa, Twenty Grand Ale, Red Top Ale, and Wunderbrau." Cincinnati Breweries, Robert J. Wimberg (1997)

"When [John Ulrich] Windisch died in 1879, [John] Hauck bought his share for $550,000 and organized a new corporation. One thousand shares of stock were issued and sold for $1000 a share. John Hauck held 940 shares; P.W.J. Hauck, 10 shares; F. Werner, 25; George Engel, 3; Andrew Dieterle, 10; Albert Carry, 10; Wilhelm Klump, 1; and Jacob Fresch Sr., 1. On September 16, 1882 the John Hauck Brewing Company was officially incorporated. John Hauck was president; P.W.J. Hauck, vice-president; F.J. Werner, secretary and treasurer; Dieterle and Carry were directors.

Also in 1882 the John Hauck Beer Bottling Company was established with capital of $15,000. It was operated by the brewery board. This move was interesting given the fact that John Hauck originally had opposed the bottling of beer. He believed that the flavor and texture of the beer would change in the bottle. However, to do business with more distant markets, he had to agree to the logic of bottling his precious brew.

The directors of the corporation agreed to expand the brewery in 1884. They set aside $52,000 for this purpose. The brewery complex covered the block bounded by Central, Dayton, York Streets and Kewitt Alley. (The old German Protestant Cemetery in this area had to be moved.) The Hauck Brewery's tall chimney was a local landmark at the time. By 1888 the brewery had three ice machines with a capacity of eighty tons. The malt house had three malt kilns and the brewery used 30 delivery wagons. Over 100 men worked to produce Hauck's beers. They included: 'John Hauck Golden Eagle Lager', 'Export Lager', 'SuperFine', and Pilsner. Also 'Invalid Beer' was brewed. Hauck claimed that it would improve the health of the weak and the dyspeptic. 

The John Hauck Brewing Company owned several local saloons which sold the various Hauck beers. Other local breweries also did this to be sure that they could sell their beer. Because there were over two thousand saloons in Cincinnati in the 1880's competition was stiff. Most of them began to offer free lunches with the purchase of beer. Few could resist this temptation. Even John Hauck himself at lunch at the saloon across the street from the brewery for free.

If Hauck was careful about the way he spent his money, he was even more cautious about how his beer was handled. He instructed his drivers to carry the barrels into the saloon. They were not permitted to roll them off the wagon onto the ground and into the cellar. Hauck believed that the beer would be too foamy to use for three days.

John Hauck's son Louis, after studying brewing in Munich, joined the brewery in 1885. In 1890 he was elected to the board of directors. In 1892, P.W.J. Hauck resigned as vice-president and Louis Hauck took his place. When John Hauck resigned in 1893, Louis Hauck became president of the brewery. Then P.W.J. Hauck became vice-president; Werner, secretary-treasurer; and the directors were George WWeimar and Emily Hauck Heine, Louis' sister. John Hauck died in 1896. His stocks were divided between his widow, Catherine, his son, Louis and his daughter, Emily.

Louis Hauck reduced the kinds of beers produced to 'Imperial','Golden Eagle lager', and 'Special Dark.' He also hired J.M. Dial as sales agent for Kentucky in 1898. By this time over 300,000 barrels of beer were brewed.

When Fredrick Werner died in 1912, Edward Schulz took his place as secretary-treasurer. In 1923 Jacob Hoffman replaced him.

Louis Hauck insisted on almost perfect cleanliness in the brewery and the surrounding sidewalks. He even went to the extent of conducting surprise white glove inspections of the machinery, boilers, vats, generators, and bottling devices included.

When Prohibition became law in 1919 the Hauck Brewing Company shifted to the production of near-beer and soda pop and making and selling ice. The change proved unsatisfactory to the directors of the brewery. As time went on, more and more of the plant was leased to Red Top Brewing Company which wanted to operate on such conditions. On March 12, 1927, 46,500 gallons of near-beer was pumped into the sewer in the street. The Internal Revenue officer did not consider that beer would foam under such circumstances. Soon about 250 feet away beer foam forced open a manhole cover and beer flowed over the street.

After Prohibition, Red Top Brewing Company maintained the lease of the brewery plant and the John Hauck Brewing Company never returned to the beer business. Louis Hauck died in 1942." Cincinnati Breweries, Robert J. Wimberg (1997)

"John Hauck and John Ulrich Windisch started their brewery in 1863 on Dayton Street near Central Avenue. They purchased five acres of land upon which to build their factory. Water from the Miami-Erie Canal was used to fill the steam boilers that provided the power for the machinery. Hauck and Windisch also called their business the Dayton Street Brewery which produced its first beer in 1864. A total of 10,000 barrels came out that year. They produced 32,000 barrels in 1877.

Two years later, Hauck bought Windisch's share of the business. Nephew Paul William John Hauck joined the brewery in 1876 as the bookkeaper and Fredrick J. Werner, who was employed by Hauck around this time, became the clerk.

By 1881 the Dayton Street brewery produced 160,000 barrels of beer. The success of the business is evident. When Windisch died in 1879, Hauck bought his share for $550,000 and organized a new corporation. One thousand shares of stock were issued and sold for $1000 a share. John Hauck held 940 shares; P.W.J. Hauck, 10 shares; F. Werner, 25; George Engel, 3; Andrew Dieterle, 10; Albert Carry, 10; Wilhelm Klump, 1; and Jacob Fresch Sr., 1. On September 16, 1882 the John Hauck Brewing Company was officially incorporated." Cincinnati Breweries, Robert J. Wimberg (1997)

Frank Rothert operated his brewery on the east side of Colerain Pike near the city limits at the time. The brewery operated for just around a year. 

Gustave A. Huser ran his brewery on Hamilton Road near the city limit at the time. The brewery was in operation for roughly two years between 1861 and 1863.

Henry Wichmann and Joseph Duveneck, the adoptive father of famed artist Frank Duveneck, bought the Hone Brewery from Frank Hone. The brewery was situated at the northeast corner of 12th and Stevens, in Covington, Kentucky, and had it's own beer garden in an adjacent lot. By 1866, the brewery was no longer in operation. After his brewery closed, Duveneck remained a prominent member of society, eventually becoming known as "Squire" Duveneck. 

Louis Lienhart leased the Clifton Brewery from Jacob Elsas in 1885 and called his brewery the Rohs Hill Brewing Company. In 1886 Elsas let Lienhart out of the lease, and in 1888 the brewery was finally demolished to make way for the Jacob Elsas Subdivision. The original brewery structure was in the middle of what is now Chickasaw Street, between the addresses of 2336 and 2328 Chickasaw Street.