Victoria Illustrated (1891)
Loewen and Erb
This firm, the owners of the Victoria Brewery, is composed of Joseph Loewen and L. E. Erb. The brewery was started in the year 1858, but was purchased by them twelve years later, since which time they have made extensive improvements for the brewing of lager and bock beer, which are now turned out to an extent of four thousand barrels or one hundred and twenty thousand gallons a year, and constantly increasing.
Loewen &Erb have earned a good patronage, from the fact that their beer is made solely of malt and hops and contains no deleterious substances such as are almost invariably used in Eastern Canada. Their trade extends all over the Province of British Columbia, and they furnish, practically, most all the beer consumed at Victoria, Nanaimo, Comox, Wellington and the towns on the line of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo railroad.
Both gentlemen have magnificent residences,
one of which will be seen in our pages. The celebrated and beautiful Victoria Gardens are
also one of their many properties.
[Victoria Illustrated, p. 84.]
Victoria Illustrated. Published by Ellis &Co., "The Colonist," Victoria, B.C. 1891.