not in production. Walter's is being produced in Pueblo as a micro-brew. Sometime around 1999 German born West Bend resident Gunter Woog bought the Lithia trademark. In 2011 he attempted to relaunch the brand working with Sprecher Brewing of Glendale, Wisconsin. In 2012 it was being sold in regional clubs and bars, and seemed to have a "following". By 2018 the only listing of availability on the Sprecher Lithia website is a questionable one in Canada. 1970s The 1970s saw tumultuous times for the Walter Brewing name. Appleton and West Bend closed in 1972. Pueblo in 1975 a few years after Paul Kalmanovitz acquired the brewery. Trinidad closed in the 1940s and Menasha closed in the 1950s.. Mike Healy The 1970s saw tumultuous times for the Walter Brewing name. Geo. Walter Brg. Co. Appleton and West Bend Lithia closed in 1972. Pueblo in 1975 not long after Paul Kalmanovitz acquired the brewery. Other Walter's facilities, Trinidad closed in the 1940s and Menasha closed in the 1950s. The Eau Claire brewery was sold to Mike Healy, an Irish attorney from Chicago who worked for U.S. Bank Note, in 1985, renamed Hibernia Brewing Ltd. and operated the facility with the introduction of many award-winning craft beers such as Eau Claire All Malt, Oktober Fest, Winter Brau and a Dunkelweisen, along with Walter's and Walter's Special. When Healy bought the brewery it was producing 12,000 barrels, and within three years production was over 32,000 barrels. The future looked bright, the brewery was in the black, and new markets were being opened. At this point, however, a $100,000.00 shipment of under-pasteurized beer was released to the new markets of Ohio and California. The brewmaster John Walter and assistant brewmaster John Walter II were blamed and fired immediately. Insurance covered the recall however the damage done to consumer confidence was believed to be insurmountable. Revivals Ed Miller and Cynthia Ancil, purchased the brewery from dairy equipment liquidator Jerry Goldberg, attempted a rebirth in the 1990s, contract brewing Walter's at Jos. Huber in Monroe, WI, but that venture eventually failed. Many fixtures and metal items were stripped from the brewery and sold as scrap leaving not much more than a brewery shell with no real brewing equipment to remain. A brewery it was no longer without its equipment to make beer. Northwoods in Eau Claire currently offers their rendition of Walter's Beer created at their facility