Fitger's Brewing Company

Fitger's Brewing Company was a beer manufacturer in Duluth, Minnesota, that operated from 1881 to 1972, growing out of a brewery first established in 1859, making it the oldest continuously operating brewery in Minnesota until it closed. It was a major local employer producing about 100,000 barrels of beer annually, and it stayed open through Prohibition by diversifying into soda and candy bar production. Its surviving ten building brewery complex, built mainly between 1886 and 1911, has since been adapted into an indoor mall of shops, restaurants, a hotel and a museum on the brewery's history.