The two breweries in New Ulm were Schell's (still going strong) and the former Hohenstein. The War Department hails from there and still has relatives. Schell's does quite a bit of custom bottling for some of the smaller, craft brewers, as they are kind of a mid-major.
I began my beer can collecting in the mid 70s after completing a Christmas gift puzzle displaying a bunch of smaller, local beers from that era, many of which have been mentioned here. I think I had as many as a thousand different cans when it peetered out, most still boxed up in the attic. The numbers are insane today, way too many to keep up with. We have no fewer than 7 different craft brewers within 20 miles, each with dozens of brews- albeit most only available on tap.
We even included brewery tours into family vacations back then, pretty cheap but interesting with trips to Frankenmuth, Milwaukee, St. Louis, etc.
Unfortunately, I soon focused more on quantity than quality...
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