E Klinkert Brewing Co Racine WI

Ernst C. Klinkert was born in Frankfort, Germany in 1844. He came to this country in 1862. After living in St. Louis for six years, he moved to Milwaukee in 1868. He worked at the Valentine Blatz Brewery. He gained added experience with the Frederick. Heck brewery of Racine in the early 1870s. Then he launched his own firm.