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Breweriana For Sale:

  • Bottles - Beer Bottles For Sale: primarily embossed, blob top lagers, porters, stouts, ales with some stoneware lagers;
    plus some labeled, crown top beers.
     
  • Trays - Beer Trays For Sale, both post and pre-prohibition, plus the occasional Tip Tray.
     
  • Glasses - Beer Glasses For Sale: embossed, etched, and enameled (or ACL), including some foreign glasses.
     
  • Signs - Beer Signs For Sale: including chalks, Reverse on Glass or ROG, tin over cardboard or TOC, and some non-beer related advertising pieces.
     
  • Mugs & Steins - Beer Mugs and Steins for sale: including both pre-prohibition and later collectibles in stoneware or glass.
     
  • Miscellaneous - Breweriana For Sale: including mini beers, salt shakers, Coors Ceramics, openers, tap knobs, ash trays, labels, patches, cans, and various other collectibles.
     
  • Links - Favorite LINKS to breweriana associations, breweries, or brewery related sites.
     
  • Wants - Seeking to purchase Breweriana for my private collection. These items are at the top of my "wish" list.
     
  • Pub Paraphernalia - European Pub collectibles For Sale (primarily from the UK), such as glasses, pub mugs, beer trays, advertising ash trays, and coasters or beer mats.
     

Brewery Histories:   Brewers and Breweries

 (1)  Brewers

  • Leopold Schmidt - Biography of founder of the Centennial Brewing Co. of Butte, MT; the Olympia Brewing Co. of Tumwater, and its four branches: the Bellingham Bay Brewery and the Port Townsend Brewery, both in WA; the Salem Brewery in OR; and the Acme Brewery of San Francisco.
     
  • John Hemrich - Biography of John Hemrich, founder of the Union Brewery in Alma, and patriarch of the House of Hemrich - a brewing dynasty in the Pacific northwest.
     
  • Andrew Hemrich - Biography of Andrew Hemrich, founder of the Bay View Brewery, and Seattle Brewing & Malting of Seattle, originator of Rainier Beer.
     
  • Alvin Hemrich - Biography of Alvin Hemrich, founder of Hemrich Bros. Brewing Co., Hemrich Brewing Co., and the Apex Brewing Co. all of Seattle; and Aberdeen Brewing Company in Grays County, WA.
     
  • Louis Hemrich - Biography of Louis Hemrich, co-founder of Hemrich Bros. Brewing Company, president of Seattle Brewing & Malting, and president of the Rainier Brewing Company of San Francisco.
     
  • JP Rettenmayer - Biography of Jacob Paul Rettenmayer, president of the Acme Brewing Company; the Cereal Products Refining Corporation during Prohibition, and the Salinas Brewing & Ice Company after Repeal.
     
  • Elmer E. Hemrich - Biography of Elmer Edward Lloyd Hemrich, manager of the Aberdeen Brewing Co.;  president of Columbia Breweries, Inc. of Tacoma;  president of Elmer E. Hemrich's Brewery, Inc. and Gold Seal Breweries, both of Seattle.
     
  • Armin L. Neubert - Biography of Armin Louis Neubert, Production Superintendent for the Minneapolis Brewing Co.; president of the Black Hills brewing Co.; and designer and director of the Salinas Brewing & Ice Co. - later the Monterey brewing Co.
     
  • Edward F. Sweeney - Biography of Edward Francis Sweeney, president of the Claussen-Sweeney Brewery, and vice-president & general manager of Seattle Brewing & Malting.
     

(2)  Breweries

  • Centennial - Illustrated history of the Centennial Brewery of Butte, Montana Territory, est. 1876.
     
  • Olympia - Illustrated history of Leopold Schmidt's Capital Brewing Company and Olympia Brewing Company of Tumwater, from 1896 to present.
     
  • Bellingham Bay & Henry Schupp - Illustrated history of the Bellingham Bay Brewery (Brewers of 3-B Beer), a Whatcom Co. branch of the Olympia Brewing Company, from 1902 to 1916. Plus the obituary of Henry Schupp, Bellingham Bay Brewery's manager.
     
  • Salem - Illustrated history of the Salem Brewery Association, from 1903 to 1916, the Olympia Brewing Company's Oregon branch. The history also covers the period after Prohibition (1933), and its two owners, Frank Schmidt and Emil Sick.
     
  • Acme - Illustrated history of the Acme Brewing Company of San Francisco, est. 1907 as a branch of the Olympia Brewing Company of Tumwater. The history also covers the period from Repeal (1933) until Acme was purchased by Rheingold in 1954.
     
  • Port Townsend - Illustrated history of the Port Townsend Brewing Company (Brewers of Key City Beer), a Jefferson Co., WA branch of the Olympia Brewing Company from 1909 to 1916. The history also covers the Peninsula Brewing Co. from 1933 -1935.
     
  • Rainier - Illustrated history of Rainier Beer beginning with Seattle's Bay View Brewery in 1883, Albert Braun's Brewery, and the Claussen-Sweeney Brewery. Rainier grew to become the flagship brand of the Seattle Brewing & Malting Company, and the Rainier Breweries in San Francisco and Seattle.
     
  • Hemrich Bros. - Illustrated history of the Hemrich Bros. Brewing Co.
     
  • Aberdeen - Illustrated history of the Aberdeen Brewing Company and its successor, the Pioneer Brewing Co. of Aberdeen, WA.
     
  • Salinas - Illustrated history of the Salinas Brewing & Ice Co. and its successor, the Monterey Brewing Co. of Salinas, CA.
     
  • E. E. Hemrich's Brewery - Brief illustrated history of this short lived enterprise, and it's owner, Elmer E. Hemrich.
     
  • Black Hills - Illustrated history of the Black Hills Brewing Company of Central City, South Dakota, from 1878 to 1927.
     
  • Columbia - Illustrated history of the Columbia Brewing Company of Tacoma, WA, and it's successors, from 1900 to 1979.
     
  • Whatcom - Illustrated history of the Whatcom Brewing & Malting Company of Whatcom (now Bellingham), WA,  from 1899 to 1903.
     
  • Pacific Brewery - Illustrated history of the Pacific Brewing & Malting Company of Tacoma, from 1888 to 1915.
     
  • Horluck Brewery - Illustrated history of the Horluck Brewing Co. of Seattle, from 1933-1939, and it's successor, Sick's Century Brewery, 1939-1957.
     
  • Apex Brewery - Illustrated history of the Apex Brewing Co. of Seattle, from 1934-1937,  successor to, the Hemrich Brewing Company, Inc., 1933-1934.

     

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