The most prominent "boomer" and promoter of Port Angeles was Col. James S. Coolican, president of the city's Board of Trade. In the Summer of 1901, he organized the Angeles Brewing & Malting Co. in Chicago, with local investors. Not long after the projected May '02 date they had "Angeles Beer" on the market. However, in spite of their best efforts the company was struggling to pay its debts. The brewery had serious competition in the Seattle market which prevented them from becoming a serious contender around the Puget Sound area. However, they did get some welcome exposure with the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. At that illustrious event they won a Gold Medal for their beer and issued an etched glass heralding that accomplishment. Due to the effects of numerous saloons shutting down, and stiff competition in Seattle, the company did not work its way out of bankruptcy and on 30 April, 1913 controlling interest in the Angeles Brewing & Malting Co. was sold to a group of Seattle investors for $65,000.
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The Puget Sound Brewery began in 1888 and was located on So. 25th between C & Jefferson Sts. The brewing plant was a lager beer brewery, with the plant being designed expressly for this style of beer. The Puget Sound Brewery was incorporated as the Puget Sound Brewing Company on 7 Aug. 1891, with a capital stock of $600,000. John D. Scholl was the firm's president, with Anton Huth, treasurer and Peter A. Kalenborn, secretary. Just three years after the new business was formed, Anton Huth bought out his partner, John Scholl. Huth then assumed the position of pres. & treas., and. Peter Kalenborn became vice-pres. & sec. The company's management remained unchanged for the next six years. Then in 1897, Huth took on a partner and formed a new brewing company through a merger with another Tacoma brewery. Samuel S. Loeb agreed to merge his Milwaukee Brewery in forming a new corporation. They were equitably joined, and Loeb took the position of vice-president and secretary of the new Pacific Brewing & Malting Company (PB&M). By 1909, PB&M was one of the largest brewing companies in the Northwest - second only to Seattle Brewing & Malting, brewers of "Rainier Beer".
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The Star Brewery was a successor to one of the earliest brewing enterprises in the Washington Territory. It was originally John Muench's Vancouver Brewery, established in 1856, near Fort Vancouver. A young, immigrant brewer from Germany, Henry Weinhard, joined Muench for about six months and then went across the river to the city of Portland where he started his own brewery, but the settlement was growing too slowly, and he shut down his brewery and returned to Fort Vancouver. In 1894, the company was sold to Louis Gerlinger, who formally changed its name to the Star Brewery, and then three years later to the Star Brewery Company. Gerlinger may have been the one who introduced the "Hop Gold" brand, since its use hasn't been documented before the late 1890s. The brand was in use in Sept. 1898, when 330 cases of "Hop Gold" beer were shipped to their agent in the Philippines, on news that Commodore Dewey had destroyed the Spanish fleet in the Bay of Manila. In 1904, the Star Brewery Co. was purchased by the Northern Brewery Company, but they continued to refer to the plant as the Star Brewery, and carried on with the popular "Hop Gold Export" beer".
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Andrew Hemrich & John Kopp began their Seattle brewery in early 1883. From steam beer to lager, the plant saw improvements in brewing, and plant expansion, that eventually became the Bay View Brewing Co. Then in late 1892, plans were made for the Bay View plant to merge with two others to form the Seattle Brewing and Malting Company. This "syndicate" was a consolidation (1892) of three plants - the Bay View, founded in 1883; Claussen-Sweeny, established that same year; and Albert Braun Brewing Company, established in 1890. A brand of beer was then needed to identify the new company's product, and the name of the mountain that dominated the southern view was chosen. On January 10, 1893, "Rainier" was adopted as one of the brands for the new firm, and soon became their flagship mark. In 1904, Georgetown incorporated a “company town” safeguarding the business interests of its brewery. The number of taverns and roadhouses doubled, and by 1905 it required 25 horse teams to daily fill the Seattle appetite for "Rainier Beer". Production by then had reached 300,000 barrels per annum. The company now employed more than 300 men and there was room to build worker homes beside the Duwamish River that then still curved through Georgetown. Before Washington State introduced prohibition in 1916, the Georgetown brewery was the largest industrial establishment in the state of Washington.
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In 1903, Bernhardt Schade was brewmaster at the locally owned and operated New York Brewing Company. Schade left the New York Brewery in 1902 to start his own brewing legacy, the B. Schade Brewing Co. who's plan was to brew a fine lager and out-produce Spokane Brewing and Malting Co. The Schade Brewery building was built in 1903 at a reported cost of $265,000. The brewery was rock-solid, built of reinforced concrete and brick, with walls three and a half feet thick. The B. Schade Brewery produced beer until Prohibition in 1915.
Local investors George Watkins, Michael Hartman, and Newton W. O'Rear established the company in Sept. 1905, after raising $25,000 in capital stock for the venture. One of the brewery's brand was called "Key City Beer" and was built on site of the old Washington Brewery whose location was on the west side of Monroe St. between Water and Washington Sts. In January of 1916 the brewery was closed due to the Prohibition initiative which allowed brewers one year to sell their stock and shut down their plants. The Port Townsend Brewing Co. continued with a line of non-alcoholic beverages and soda waters, but closed in 1918.
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