Atwell's Celebrated Table Beer

Stamped B.A. ATWELLS CELEBRATED TABLE BEER COR. STATE & JOHNSON STS MADISON WIS this quart sized earthenware bottle was made by one of the two Portage City potteries, probably the Dewitt street pottery (1859-1863). Ben Atwell opened a grocery in 1856 that ran until the mid-1860s. Atwell was a retailer, not a brewer.