Anthony (Anton) Muschal was born in the Kingdom of Wurttemberg.  He emigrated to America and settled in Buffalo, New York.  In around 1860 he married Fredericka Duchow, a woman 24 years her junior.  He got his start in the brewing busines in the Albert Ziegele brewery.  By 1863 he had started his own brewery in Frederick Zeller's saloon at 106 Burton Alley.

He ran the brewery for about ten years before dying on the 6th of August, 1872.  He was 56 years of age.  Upon Anthony's death Fredericka took over the brewing operations for about a year, then married Andrew Driskel, the owner of a competing saloon.  Andrew Driskel moved into Fredericka's Burton Alley home.  They brewed there until 1884 or thereabouts, as directories simply stopped listing the Driskel's as brewers any more.

Fredericka Duchow was born in Prussia.  She arrived somewhere around 1860 and married a brewer named Anton Muschal in Buffalo New York.  The brewery was of small capacity.  It was a residence with a saloon in front and a brew house in back.  When Anton died in 1872 Fredericka took over the brewery while simultaneously managing five children.

In around 1874 she married Andrew Driskel, who was a saloon owner himself.  With him she had four more kids.  He moved in to the Muschal house, used Anton's equipment, and sold beer out the front room just like before.  Andrew and Fredericka shared the brewing duties, while Andrew ran the saloon in the front room.  This continued for about ten more years at which point, it appears, they retired.  Fredericka Driskel died on June 25th 1894.  She was 53 years of age.