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Craft Breweries in the US
The first decade
Timeline
Name in blue- still open.
Year in red - closing date (when known)
1976
New Albion (Sonoma, CA) 1983
1979
Calif. Steam Beer (San Rafael) 1979
Franklin (Emeryville, CA) 1980
1980
Boulder (Boulder, CO)
DeBakker (Novato, CA)
Cartwright (Portland, OR) 1981
River City (Sacramento, CA)
Sierra Nevada (Chico, CA)
1981
Wm. Newman (Albany, NY) 1987
1982
Yakima Brewing & Malting 2005
Thousand Oaks (Berkley CA) 1990
Real Ale (Chelsea, MI)
Redhook Ale Brewery* (Seattle)
1983
Hale's Ales (Colesville, WA)
Buffalo Bill’s (Hayward, CA)
Mendocino (Hopland, CA) 2018
1984
Chesapeake Bay [later Virginia]
Manhattan (NYC) 1991
Columbia River[later BridgePort] 2019
Hart [merged > Pyramid] (WA)
Kuefnerbrau (Monroe, WA) 1991
Riley-Lyon [later Arkansas] (Little Rock)
Snake River (Idaho)
Widmer* (Portland, OR)
St. Stanislaus (Modesto, CA)
Montana Beverage Ltd. (Helena) 2000
Palo Alto (Mountain View, CA)
1985
Old New York (New Amsterdam) 1988
Hillsdale [later McMenamin’s/Portland] 2018
Kemper [merged to form Pyramid] (WA)
Kalamazoo [now Bell’s]
Millstream (IA)
Reinheitsgebot (Plano, TX) 1990
Sprecher (Milwaukee)
Vernon Valley [later Clement’s] (NJ)
1986
Abita (LA)
D. L. Geary's (ME)
Catamount (VT) 2000
Pacific (Maui, HI)
Redwood (Petaluma, CA)
Santa Cruz (CA)
Saxton (Chico, CA)
Summit (MN)
* merged in 2008 to form Craft Brewers Alliance
1986's TOP 12 "MICRO BREWERS"
(defined as less than 10,000 barrels- from Brewers Digest 3/87)
1. Old New York Brewing Co., Inc.
2. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
3. Redhook Ale Brewery
5. Boulder Brewing Co.
6. Yakima Brewing & Malting Inc.
7. Manhattan Brewing Co., Inc
8. Hale's Ales Ltd.
9. Montana Beverage Ltd.
10. Columbia River Brewery
11. Chesapeake Bay Brewing Co.
12. Widmer Brewing Co.
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Total of Top 12 - 48,375 bbl.
Total of all "Microbreweries" - 64,967 bbl.
Early Contract brewed craft beers
1982
New Amsterdam Amber - Old New York Brewing Co., NYC (Matt)
Ingram's First - Ingram, White Plains, NY (Koch 'dba' Simon Pure)
1985
Portland Ale - Portland Brewing Co., OR (Grant's)
Vienna All-Malt Lager - Vienna Brewing Co. Milw. WI (Hibernia)
Samuel Adams Boston Lager - Boston Beer Co. MA (Pittsburgh) *
1986
Smith & Riley - Smith & Riley, Vancover , WA. (General)
Olde Heurich Amber Ale - Olde Heurich Brewing Co., Wash, DC (Pittsburgh)
XIIIth Colony Amber Beer - Savannah Beer Co., GA (Pittsburgh)
Pennsylvania Pilsner - Pennsylvania Brewing Co., (Pittsburgh)
Dock Street Amber Beer - Dock Street Brewing Co., Phila. (Matt)
Pete's Wicked Ale - (Palo Alto, later Schell Brewing Co.)**
* Samuel Adams beers have been contract-brewed by:
Pittsburgh Brewing Company
Heileman (inc. Blitz-Weinhard - Portland, OR)
Stroh (Allentown, PA, Portland, OR)
Genesee/High Falls
F X Matt
Hudepohl-Schoenling
City (Latrobe, PA and La Crosse, WI)
Pabst (Allentown, PA)
Miller (Tumwater, WA, Eden, NC)
plus BBC-owned breweries in Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Breinigsville, PA.
** Approx. time line of Pete's contract breweries:
Palo Alto Brewing Co., CA (1986)
Schell's, MN (1987-1992)
Minnesota Brewing, St. Paul MN (1992-1995)
Stroh, MN-WA-NC (1995-1999)
(1998 - Brand sold to Gambrinus)
Miller (1999-2004)
F X Matt (2004-2011)
Gambrinus announces discontinuation of the Pete's brand, as of 3/1/11
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