Wausau Bags
Description: The Wisconsin State League was a relatively stable post-war Class D minor league baseball circuit. The league formed with six clubs in the summer of 1940 and added two more expansion clubs, Janesville and Oskhosh, in 1941. Like most of the minors, the Wisconsin State League shut down from 1943 through 1945 during the height of the war effort. The league’s attendance and the financial viability of its clubs were already in decline when the National when the when the National League’s Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee in 1953.
Description: Founded by Bavarian immigrant **Louis Schoen** (1876–1965), *Schoen's Old Lager* was a testament to Old World brewing craftsmanship. Arriving in the U.S. in 1892, Schoen became a brewmaster at **Heileman Brewing**, where he insisted on aging his lager for **nine weeks**—a meticulous process that ensured unparalleled quality but clashed with post-Prohibition demands for rapid production. When Heileman refused to wait, Schoen left in 1933 and co-founded **Wausau Brewing Company** in Wisconsin, reviving his signature *Louis Schoen's Old Lager* with the same uncompromising standards. By the 1960s, however, Schoen’s legacy had faded. After his death in 1965, the beer bearing his name abandoned the nine-week aging tradition, sacrificing quality
