Abandoned Hamm's Brewery, St. Paul, MN - Part 1: Brewhouse

Midwest Urbex is exploring the crown jewel of Twin Cities abandoned places: the historic Hamm's Brewery! Explore with us and learn a bit about its history along the way.
The historical photographs were provided by the Minnesota Historical Society. www.mnhs.org/
Footage of the demolition of the Hamm's Elevator by Greg Cosimini: • Hamm's Brewery Grain E...
A big thanks to The Land of Sky Beer Waters for the Hamm's commercial and archival footage. Check our their channel here:
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[@sammievann8352]

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!

[@bluuu32]

I love this. I grew up in St Paul. I remember the Hamm's commercial 🙂

[@BrandonLatessaMSP]

this was my entire teenage childhood hanging with friends on the roof watching countless sunsets wish it wasn't so sealed up

[@kiixiies8816]

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!

[@1997cr80r]

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

[@timayerm]

1997cr80r Where is the brewery near? I’ve looked but can’t find it.

[@1997cr80r]

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

[@UrbexTroll]

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.

[@CalypsoFox]

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!

[@SteveStalock]

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.

[@fredfunk4049]

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.

[@markwitte303]

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.

[@JugglerLou]

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!

[@midwesturbex2502]

What an awesome connection you have with this story! Thank you for your comment. :)

[@nelsonnoname001]

Well then.... How did you get to go? Who are you?

[@JugglerLou]

Nelson NoName I just watched the clip.

[@nelsonnoname001]

No friend, the school, part, how did you go

[@JugglerLou]

Nelson NoName My Mom was the nurse at the school. I went for free.

[@rbakken2999]

In 1981 I learned how to underwater weld in the large kettles.

[@jimglampe5765]

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 😯😯

[@dustinsmith568]

Great informative video! Would you maybe know of any abandoned places that are in Northern Wisconsin or in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan?

[@midwesturbex2502]

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!

[@paulsolfelt8452]

How the hell did you get in this year? I can get in there with a key but got to do it at night!

[@paulsolfelt8452]

Is my bud Weiser can still on that blue barrel by the door going out to Minnehaha?

[@sammysosa8400]

How did you get in n where can u find it ??

[@paulsolfelt8452]

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! .

[@kathyschauer2114]

I think they tried to keep the tasting room going as a restaurant but they didn’t make it.

[@josephhoward4010]

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!

[@lainetucker6438]

Is it still accessible? I've heard they've sealed entrances

[@midwesturbex2502]

I haven't been over there recently, so I can't say whether or not my way in is still accessible. But there's more than one way to skin a cat.

[@BAVARIANMAGAZINE]

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.

[@1997cr80r]

It's sealed right tight sadly

[@WhyNotMN]

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.

[@paulsolfelt8452]

@@WhyNotMN they took the boards out and brick walled that whole area now, LOL!

[@chrisolson3923]

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.

[@tvoyds7035]

They for sure didn't repurpose them brew tanks! Lmfao!!! XD they for sure scraped them for the metal!!

[@adamroszkowski6976]

anyone know where the location of this is?

[@nedaskcor7206]

Monkey Ball 681 MinnehahaAvenue East. walk to it if you’re going in there is a police station across the street

[@LuckyO97]

@@nedaskcor7206 its closed

[@nedaskcor7206]

zack zazer always has been 🔫

[@briizcustoms9543]

@@nedaskcor7206 I got to the address and didn’t see anything

[@ZzbaconstripszZ]

When is part 2 coming?

[@midwesturbex2502]

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.

[@paulsolfelt8452]

@@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!

[@SP-qo3pd]

It's a shame people cannot let things be. Destroying a time capsule isn't cool.

[@tvoyds7035]

For sure heavily patrolled by police! Lol the police station is literally right on that bridge! xD little be there in seconds!!

[@paulsolfelt8452]

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!

[@xxxMusoukaxxx]

Ugghhhh yes please someone get me in

[@brien1254]

Kendall J. Zimmerman It's been years since I've been there, but I'd like to go again sometime