Don and Jeanne Gosen, proprietors of Copper Mule Distillery, honor Jeanne’s great grandfather Captain Gustav Wohlt who helped found the Hermann Distilling Company in 1893. The name, Copper Mule, honors the Kallmeyer family mules grazing the property beginning in 1910.
STORY
1862
Missouri Riverboat
Captain Gustav
Wohlt is born.1870
Frank Gosen, Don's great
great-grandfather purchases
the Gosen Century Farm in
Rhineland Missouri.
1893
Gustav Wohlt establishes
Hermann Distilling Company.
1903
Henry Eggers, Don's great-
grandfather opens Eggers Milling
Company in Hermann, milling grains
for cooking, brewing and distilling.
1908
Julius Kallmeyer, Jeanne's
great-grandfather purchased
the Copper Mule Property
and began raising mules.1916
The Kallmeyers sold
Mules to the US Army
during WWI.
2001
Don and Jeanne open
Bauernhof Brewery
in Hermann.
2014
Don and Jeanne begin reinvigorating
the Kallmeyer Farm with the addition
of a home, vineyards and the
beginning of Copper Mule Distillery.2019
Copper Mule Distillery
is founded by Don and
Jeanne Gosen.
