Kenny Kent and George Marx Jr. with Sterling Beer

ID: 2192 ~ Source: Courtesy of Tyler Marx, Hilltop Inn ~ Date: 1955
This file appears in: Hilltop Inn
Kenny Kent and George Marx Jr. with Sterling Beer

Hartmetz had a fondness for saying the beer he brewed was “a sterling beer.” When the Hartmetz and Wimberg brewery merged with others in 1893, the new brewery was named Sterling Brewery. In this 1955 advertisement, George Marx Jr. hands a case of Sterling Beer to Kenny Kent right in front of the Hilltop Inn.

This file appears in: Hilltop Inn

By Vanderburgh County Historical Society
The Hilltop Inn, originally known as George J. Marx’s Grocery and Saloon, lies atop a hill in Perry Township in an area formerly known  as Perryville. The community was established in the mid-19th Century by Colonel John Rheinlander, a veteran of…