The Schnell Brewery (1864–1872) was a brewery in Washington, D.C. The brewery, owned by George Schnell, was located in the

Dupont Circle Dupont Circle (or DuPont Circle) is a traffic circle, park, neighborhood and historic district in Northwest Washington, D.C. The Dupont Circle neighborhood is bounded approximately by 16th Street NW to the east, 22nd Street NW ...

neighborhood on 20th Street between M and N Streets, Northwest. It was purchased by Christian Heurich and Paul Rutter in 1872 and served as the first location of the

Christian Heurich Brewing Company The Christian Heurich Brewing Company was a Washington, D.C., brewery founded in 1872 and incorporated by Christian Heurich in 1890. First located near Dupont Circle on 20th Street NW, it expanded to a much larger site in Foggy Bottom in 1895 af ...

. The Schnell brewery produced

Weißbier Wheat beer is a top-fermented beer which is brewed with a large proportion of wheat relative to the amount of malted barley. The two main varieties are German ''Weizenbier'' and Belgian ''witbier''; other types include Lambic (made with wild ye ...

in small quantities during its operation. When Heurich and Ritter purchased the brewery, George Schnell was sick, and the brewery was operated by his wife, one of the early female brewers in Washington, D.C.

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