Lemp Brewery

For years.

Anyways, what do you got for me today, Big Red? Oh, we have the haunting of Lemp Mansion.

Ooh, I think I've heard of this.

Yeah, this is crazy.

Okay.

Okay? That's a good place.

Um, when Johann Adam Lemp left Germany for the United States in 1838, he had a very simple plan.

1838.

Nope, never heard of it.

So, basically, the mansion is connected to a powerful, or was connected to a powerful, Lemp Brewing family.

So, who ended up becoming very extremely wealthy after John Adam Lemp.

And he ended up arriving in St. Louis from Germany in 1838.

It was in development, so they were working on something like that.

And then there was William Lemp III.

So William J. Lemp III, the only son of Billy Lemp, licensed the Lemp name to Central Breweries in East St. Louis and Central Breweries and named itself the William J. Lemp Brewing Company and began a grand marketing campaign resulting in increased sales of the new Lemp beer.

The contract was terminated by EMS Brewing, which bought out Lemp in 1945.

So here in St. Louis, it's called the Lemp Mansion.

It used to be the Lemp Brewery and the mansion of the former owners and – uh people that established that brewery and it's known to be incredibly haunted supposedly and all that kind of stuff and so we've uh we've been several times they have they actually have a brunch a sunday brunch there and they've turned it into like a you know murder mysteries and different kinds of things that they do there but uh one time we were there for brunch and linda and i were walking around and they let you kind of walk through the through the mansion if there's nobody staying there because it's also a bed and breakfast kind of thing Um, and so we went up to the attic or the, like the top floor of the building.

And it was this old room that just had a bunch of storage stuff in it and everything.

And we opened the door and there was this guy looked like Colonel Sanders.