From its humble beginnings in 1928, when E.J. Schoephoester started making ice cream in the back of his Madison, Wisconsin, grocery store, Schoep's Ice Cream has had people clamoring for more. Twelve years after that auspicious beginning, P.B. Thomsen, a well-known butter maker from Windsor, Wisconsin, bought into the company and began wholesaling ice cream in 2-1/2 gallon containers. The Schoep's "Home Pak" half-gallon line, familiar to ice cream connoisseurs throughout the midwest, was first introduced after World War II and is still the heart of the Schoep's product line today.