The Capital Brewing Company began in 1896 by Leopold F. Schmidt whose business model was "Quality First - Quantity Next." Brewing commenced at the tiny Tumwater brewery in July of 1896 and their first beer, "Olympia Pale Export", was siphoned by hand from wooden barrels, bottled and placed on the market October 1, 1896. The Capital Brewing Company became the Olympia Brewing Co. in 1902, and at that time chose the slogan "It's the Water" for its flagship brand "Olympia Beer," in part to explain why the Tumwater lagers tasted so good. Leopold Schmidt died in 1914. By then brewing basically ceased in Washington in 1915 due to Prohibition and it allowed brewers one year to deplete their inventory and dismantle their operations. However, the Schmidt family chose to carry on with near beers called "German Brew", "Lact Dark," an "Olympia Malt Extract" and an "Olympia Artesian Water". By the early 1920's the Schmidt family controlled a large number of luxury hotels, with a presence in all of the major northwestern cities. They sold off all their inactive breweries and beverage operations (including the 1906 Tumwater Brewhouse), and concentrated on their Western Hotels chain which would become the nucleus of the present day Westin Hotels.
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In 1902, Samuel S. Loeb and other business associates who had been with him in his Tacoma brewery, laid plans to open a brewery - the Independent Brewing Co. in Seattle. Samuel Loeb served as president, and his brother-in-law, Albert Weinberg, was vice-president, with Benjamin Moyses serving as sec./treas. Their millionaire partner, Herman Klaper - "the Hop King" - left the company prematurely when he went down with the Titanic on her ill-fated, maiden voyage. The brewery was located at 4202 8th Ave. So., what is now Airport Way, and south of Seattle Brewing & Malting's Sweeney plant in Georgetown. The brewery flourished in spite of the major competition from Seattle Brewing & Malting's "Rainier Beer". In June of 1910 they introduced "Old German Lager" calling it the "Fatherland Beer," with the slogan: "Prosit! Es Giebt Kein Kopeweh," which means - "Good Health! It won't give you a headache". By 1912, "Old German Lager" was being bottled and distributed by the Chas. F. Wagner Co. in San Francisco, and in Portland by Rose City Importing Company.
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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.
Hans Johanne Claussen came to Seattle in 1888, after working in the Fredericksburg Brewery in San Jose, CA and the National Brewery in San Francisco. Once in Seattle he took the position as brewmaster at E. F. Sweeney's Puget Sound Brewery. The following year Claussen became a principal in the firm which reorganized as the Claussen-Sweeney Brewing Company. The new firm was capitalized at $80,000 with Edward Sweeney as president, and Hans Claussen as secretary-treasurer. In February of 1901, Hans formed a stock company for the purposes of opening a new brewing enterprise - the Claussen Brewing Association. The venture was capitalized at $50,000 - all the stock having been subscribed for by local retailers, i.e. saloons. The Alaska-Yukon Exposition of 1909, gave the company a boost when the prizes were awarded to the many competing Northwest breweries. The Claussen Brewing Assn. was awarded the Grand Prize and a Gold Medal for its flagship, "Tannhaeuser Beer". This seemed to confirm their slogan: "Seattle's Best Beer." Also, their "Mother's Malt" and "Ye Olde English Porter" both received Gold Medals. In November of 1914, Washington voters adopted state-wide prohibition. This was to take effect the beginning of 1916, giving producers of alcoholic beverages all of 1915 to sell their stock and close their plants.
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Emil Kliese along with William C. Kiltz, filed for articles of incorporation on February 8, 1900 "to brew and sell wholesale and retail beer and other malt beverages" at a company to be known as the Columbia Brewing Company. The new firm had an initial capitalization of $50,000. William Kiltz was sales manager and Emile Kliese was owner, president and brewmaster. Tacoma's newest brewery was on line by the end of April, 1901, at which time the city boasted of 95 bars. The brewery had a number of brands of beer, "Columbia", "Golden Drops", "Golden Foam" and "Old Pilsner. Then in September of 1912 they added "Alt Heidelberg" (Old Heidelberg) to their line-up. The plant was located at 2120-2132 on South C Street and it was a five story, wooden frame building built over an artesian well with the brewery's output of about 50 barrels per day.
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A series of transactions involving the merger or purchase of the Henco Brewery, the New York Brewery, and the Galland-Burke Brewery resulted the reincorporation on May 1st, 1902, of the Spokane Brewing and Malting Company for one million dollars. All three breweries were operated, at least initially, as branch breweries. In 1911, Julius Galland admitted that they held leases on 50 or 60 saloons that required the them to sell only Spokane Brewing and Malting Co. beer. The company remained in business until the mid-1930's when the assets were sold to the Sicks-Rainier brewing interests of Puget Sound. Plant operations continued until 1962.
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