Pepin Brewery, located in Morres addition to the village of Read’s Landing. This property comprises what is generally known as the Burkhardt breweries. The lower one, a frame structure, built by Charles Leslie in 1856; the upper one, a stone building, erected some twenty years since by Michael Ulmer, the whole property coming into possession of the Burkhardts about the time the was closed. Manufacture has been lately confined to the lower brewery, but the location proving too low for the high water of 1883, which flooded their cellars to the depth of eight feet. They are now, August, 1883, fitting up the upper brewery for business, by erecting new dry kilns, and engine and boiler house. This brewery is 40 x 100 feet, three stories, solid stone, and provided with vaults, having a storage capacity of two thousand barrels. The product of their first year’s brewage was six hundred barrels; last year, fifteen hundred barrels, an increase over previous year of thirty-three per cent.
The product of the brewery is marketed at home, little or none being shipped. Their real estate comprises a tract of about twenty-seven acres, on which they have a brick yard of over twenty years’ establishment, where they manufacture from two hundred and fifty thousand a year. The brewery business employs five hands and two teams, and is steadily increasing. The proprietors are G. & G. Burkhardt. They are natives of Germany, emigrated to America in 1859, and to this country in 1863. Godfred Burkhardt married Sophia Bruner in 1866. They have four children living, three in school at Read’s Landing: Louis, born October 14, 1868; Emma, born February 14, 1870; Maria, born February 9, 1877; Paulina, born February 5, 1879. Gotleib Burkhardt married Amelia Schlueter, February 2, 1881. They have one child, Albert, born November 25, 1881. (History of Wabasha County, Together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, Etc., H. H. Hill & Company, Publishers, Chicago, 1884, Page 1117)