Washington DC Pre-Prohibition Brewers
with Timeline

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    These are pre-prohibition brewers from Washington DC, Alexandria VA & Arlington VA
    This is not a complete list of brewers - it's only the ones I have bottles for
    This list does not include out-of-town breweries whose beer was bottled in DC (e.g. Anheuser-Busch)

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Timeline1
1850      1860      1870      1880     1890      1900      1910      1920
+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
                                               AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   Abner-Drury Brewery 
                                               CCCCCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA  Consumers Brewing Co / Arlington Brewing Co (Arlington VA)  
                                                       DDDDD          Danhakl, Anton
                DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD                                     Dickson, Christopher
               E                                                      Eisenbess & Seitz   
             GG                                                       Grambush, Alexander & Co
                         HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH  Christian Heurich Brewery  
                     KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK                                 Kernwein, George (& Son)   
                                     KKKKKKKKKKKKK                    Kernwein, Moritz  
        KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK                                      Kozel, John  
                L                                                     Luber, Leonard   
          MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM                                           Maack, William N.H.   
              MMM                                                     Miller, A.  
                MMMM                                                  Mueden, C.G.  
                NNNNNNNNNNNNNNN                                       Nass, John  
                                        NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN   National Capitol Brewing Co  
               PP                                                     Pogensee (Alexandria VA) 
            PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP    Robert Portner Brewery (Alexandria VA) 
              SSSS                                                    Schnell, George  
               SSSS                                                   Steuernagel, George (Alexandria VA)  
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAA                                        Washington Brewery / Arlington Brewery   
                                       WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW   Washington Brewery Co   
               ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ                                       Zanner, William  
+---------+--------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
1850      1860      1870      1880     1890      1900      1910      1920

1 Years of operation may not be exact - I derived them from a combination of city directories, newspaper ads/articles, the book "American Breweries III" by Dale P. Van Wieren, & the book "Capital Beer" by Garrett Peck.


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This page last updated on May 29, 2022