Love the video I work in the Historic Hamm building at 408 St. Peter street. The building will be 100 years old next year 2019. I explored and worked as security for 9 years on the site. The building is as deep as it is high!!!! The old boiler room still has coal on the floor and the offices remain the same from the early 1920s . Old out dated tools , calenders furniture etc. There is also bunkers from during the prohibition. This building is massive , beautiful and mysterious!
father and grandfather worked at hamms. said to be an aweful place to work.they did sell cardboard trays of dented cans to workers for 50 cents of 24 cans. hamms and schmidts were aweful beer after prohibition.the tour was fun as we got up to the tower for orange soda and tiny pretzels. that area of saint paul was massive industry with hamms, whirlpool and home base of 3M. whirlpool and hamms and several other corporations closed at the same time.
I've walked past this place so many times and wanted so badly to go inside, but there's way too many aggressive homeless ppl in the surrounding park for me to feel safe going. Thank you for uploading this so I can experience it!
I remember taking a tour of the brewery as a kid in the 1960s. I was disappointment there was no mention of the Rathskeller. My best memory of the brewery was watching the 1980 USA Hockey Miracle game there when it was owned by Oly.
I made the underground tunnel pathway into the steam plant from the main brewery Bigger. My favorite place to explore and enjoy is the steam plant room. I like to think back in time when all the machines were up and running and what it would be like. I have a piece of paper I found in the steam plant that's dated from the 40's it's a daily log sheet of Gallons of water consumed along with wood chips coal and gas. I would definitely like to get back in soon
Tim Yermakovich idk honestly I just found it with some friends in the twin cities I can't remember what road it's on. But there's no way in now and it's highly patrolled
I’m here because I went to school with William Hamm (Billy) the THIRD. We went to a private boarding school and Billy was an energetic kid with crazy thoughts and ideas. Running through the halls most of the time. I heard he was from The Hamms Brewery Family but now I know how he could afford to go to school....he went AFTER the family sold the brewery. Thanks for the info!
there are many caves under and around this building, very awesome and cool back stories, originally used to grow mushrooms. would absolutely love to get in the old brewery and explore, but it isn’t worth the consequences if caught, which is very easy to be done, police constantly patrolling sense it’s been high for graffiti and destruction of property. Hamms has been my family’s beer for generations, my dad recently passed and I got Sascha/Sasha(The Hamms Bear) tattooed on my left forearm with him holding a sign with my dads name, birth, and death date. the history behind the name Hamm’s is very cool and unique. absolutely amazing to me actually. thank you for the video!
Just watched your video. I grew up near the brewery in St. Paul and have a calendar the city put out that tells the history of Swede Hollow, the brewery and Phalen lake, which trickles through town and through the brewery. If you are interested I can scan and email it for your next video or two.
Awesome video. And love the history. Great job. And thank you for history. Best recent video yet. Sad at hamms being gone. But love the history. Again great job.
I worked as a security guard there winter of 77 , very huge place . They had three different routes we had to take making rounds with a total of four guards and you went alone on those rounds pretty damn scary cuz you can get lost really easy 😯😯
6:40 I've explored the cave tunnels many times and mapped out the whole entire system, It's like a maze down there. It's been about 3 years since I've been in there.
I just had a thought that I've never had before: I wonder if Hamm's (and beers like it) actually tasted good back in the 1920's when the founders recipes were followed with real, actually quality ingredients?
Hauled a load of “2 fuel oil into this brewery in. About 1960. The line to the storage tanks was plugged with the frozen black oil and this d red aged oüt unloading ❤all night . Nenerfforot it!
Mr. Haxore Thank you for your kind words! I do get up to northern WI fairly often and I have a couple sites I've been scoping out. Keep your eyes open and hopefully I'll get some footage from up there soon!
I went up the staircase in the brew house. It go's the a big blue thick wooden door. Behind it is stock house 3.you can hear the machines that flat earth brewery are using right behind that door! .
The room around the 12min mark w the bourbon kettles: my friends and I found a 500lb steel ball bearing and dropped it from the top floor. Felt like a bomb detonated inside that place!
I remember last year when I went, I crawled through the window on the blue barrel outside by the walking trail, then went through a really small piped tunnel like area and then crawled through a steel gate door that had Ben punctured enough to barley fit through, this place is dangerous and you won’t come out feeling the same as you did before you went in, that’s for sure.. especially if you explore the entire place for the whole day, and climb up the scaffolding where your about 60 feet from the bottom floor, hoping that the metal work and Welds all hold up 😂 but seriously this place is fuckin weird and had weird energy, especially on the 2nd ground level area with the men’s and women’s side separated as it seemed.
It’s sealed but if you go in from the side with the trail, sometimes there will be a space taken out of the wood that lets you shimmy in if you are standing on a stack of bricks or something.
some of them were removed in 80s my grandpa and dad worked there till it closing in 97 when i was kid . they took me through when i was kid. thank god silos are. gone. one mistake on conver belt. you fall off. and go all the way down and belts were fast.
I don't have an exact date yet, but hopefully soon. We have explored the adjacent Hamm's powerhouse (the building with the large smokestack) and plan to use that material for the second part in this series.
@@midwesturbex2502 if you go inside the locked door on Minnehaha there are office rooms behind it and not anything else but you can go down stairs and go anywhere in the rest of the vast complex, good luck getting in now because they welded the door shut 3 or four years ago now!
Try going in the the Harris machine shop by the United crushers building the furniture mafia left after I left the door unlocked.hehe lol! Check out my channel!
