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 In our quest of Baltimore History, Kilduff's realized we had to do a page on Baltimore Beer . We are missing a lot and ANY help, suggestions, comments, would be greatly appreciated !!!
   
Baltimore has quite a history when it comes to making beer, with over 100 old breweries in the City's past. The best remaining example of that history is the old American Brewery Building on North Gay Street.  I remember first seeing the building in the early 1980's from a distance, and when I finally pulled in front of the building, I was amazed to see such a wild old building still standing in Baltimore. The building is in a area of Baltimore not considered too safe these days, and with property values not high in the area, the building has escaped the " let's tear it down " attention so many other buildings in Baltimore have gotten over the years.
....................................................American Brewery Building Baltimore 2008
American Beer

American Brewery Company
1701 North Gay Street
East Baltimore City, Maryland
..................American Brewery Building Baltimore  

 The American Brewery Building in the 1920's.
.............American Brewery Baltimore Gay Street

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....In East Baltimore City and visible from all over the City, is the American Brewery Building .  The building was built in 1863, and rebuilt in 1887, by John Frederick Wiessner. For many years it was abandoned,  the plans to convert the building into the Baltimore Headquarters for Humanim worked out and the building looks great today , opening in April 2009 . Below left, a interior photo shows the machinery inside the brewery , circa the 1930's. The other photos below show the building as it looked for years , vacant but in good condition on the outside.  Driving past the old brewery today, it is incredible to see the change and promise in this old building !

..........................American Brewery Building 2008

..............American Brewery Building 2008
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...................................American Brewery Building Baltimore  

............American brewery Building Baltimore  

....................Baltimore's American brewery building .

............American Brewery Building Baltimore  

..............................................................Wiessner Beer Ad Baltimore

...............................Wiessner Regal Beer can, Baltimore




......................American Beer bottle top Baltimore
Above, a American Brewery ad ( AKA The John F. Wiessner & Sons Brewing Company ) circa the early 1900's. Much of the complex is gone, but the centerpiece building still stands on North Gay Street. To the below right, an ad by Fred Bauernschmidt for Keg Customers, circa  1914. Below, a few of the labels used over the years. The tall center tower once housed a grain elevator. Prohibition in the 1920's closed the plant, but it later reopened, later bought out by the American Malt Company, and then later Alleghany Beverage Company, who made American Beer into the 1950's.
..............American Bock Beer Baltimore




..............Anerican Beer ad Baltimore

..............................American beer label Baltimore
...................American Beer label




...............................American Bock Beer Baltimore
.............American Brewey Ads
..............................American Brewery Baltimore label

..........American Beer Baltimore
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Arrow Beer
Globe Brewery
327 South Hanover Street
Baltimore Maryland

    Arrow Beer was produced by the Globe Brewery Company in Baltimore. To the right, a Arrow " Bock Beer " label , and below, the label for "Arrow Premium Beer " .. On the  right below, a ad from around 1914, for a Arrow Beer " Kaiser Roof Garden " , which might have been located at the corner of Madison Avenue and West North Avenue. I have a feeling as World War I came in to place, the Kaiser Roof Garden either closed or changed the name.  The site of the old Globe Brewery has long since been built over in the development of Baltimore's Inner Harbor. ...
 ........Arrow Beer Baltimore



.............Arrow Beer Label Baltimore ....
.....Beer Garden Arrow Beer Baltimore
......................Arrow Beer

..................Arrow beer Ad Baltimore Maryland

............................................Arrow Beer bottle Baltimore Maryland

.............................Arrow Beer Garden Arrow Beer

.........Arrow Imperial Lagered Beer can, Baltimore Maryland ......................Arrow Beer Can Hits the Spot Baltimore


......Arrow Premuim Beer Can Baltimore ................Arrow Beer Label , Baltimore Maryland ........................
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..................................................................Arrow Beer Ad, Baltimore Maryland 1937, and ad below,1914
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Imperial Beer


 Appears to have been a label carried by Globe in the 1950's.

...........................................Imperial beer Baltimore label
Brehms Brewery
 
 As promised, I have located the site of Brehm's Brewery ! According to the map image, dated from the 1870's, the brewery was on the northeast corner of Belair and Erdman, back behind what were then homes.

.............................................Brehms Beer Baltimore

...............Brehms Brewery Baltimore

.....................Brehms Beer Ad
Gunther Brewery
 Conkling and Toone Streets
 Kilduff's is also researching the Gunther Beer Company, located in Southeast Baltimore City.

......................................................................Dry Beery Gunther Beer Sign Baltimore





..............Gunther Beer Company Baltimore Maryland
Above Photos  - Courtesy of the Baltimore Gas and Electric Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Industry

.......Gunther Beer Baltimore



........Gunther Brewery Building Baltimore 2008

..................Gunther Brewery Building Baltimore 2008



......................Gunther Lager Beer Baltimore

.................Gunthers beer label Baltimore Ale

.............Gunthers beer Baltimore




........................................Gunther Beer

...................Gunthers Premium Dry Beer Baltimore

........................................Gunther beer Baltimore can
................................Gunther Scoreboard Poly City game
...........................Poly vs Forest Park Game at Memorial Stadium with the Gunther Beer scoreboard in the background.
National Brewing Company
"The Land of Pleasant Living "
Nice web site for National Beer


.......................national Brewing Company Baltimore


.....................................National Premium Beer





..............................National Premium Beer Baltimore

...............................National Prenium National Bohemian Beer Baltimore

......National Boh beer can

..........National Boh Bock beer can Baltimore

.................Noational Boh Colts Beer can

.......National Brewing Building Baltimore






...................National Brewing plant Baltimore
......................Ahhh, yes  " The Land of Pleasant Living".

.............National Boh Light Beer Label Baltimore


.......National Brewery Building Baltimore
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.....................................Distributor in Belair Maryland for National Bohemian Beer back in the early 1950's
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......National Boh Ad Baltimore
.......National Boh Baltimore
In South Baltimore, is the Pabst Brewing Building on South Charles Street. The building has been there for years, and seems to get more attention on this page than any other company. It appears to have been a bottling factory, and was active all the way back to before a 1914 insurance map I found and I'm sure it's history dates back even further than that.
...............................................................Pabst Beer Building, Baltimore

................Pabst Brewing Baltimore







..........Pabst Brewing Building Baltimore
....Pabst Building Baltimore Maryland 2008'

...........Pabst Building Baltimore 2008
Please feel free to email Kilduffs with any questions or comments
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Kilduffs started out as a survey of Baltimore Movie Theatre Buildings, circa 1900-1950. We have since moved on to other styles of buildings around Baltimore.  This is always a " work in progress " , and as the information comes in , it will be posted.
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...........These images just in ...2011, The Carling plant in Southwest Baltimore, just off the Baltimore Beltway ( I - 695 ) Since razed !

..........................Carling Beer Plant Baltimore
Breweries in Baltimore in 1888  :

George Gunther's Brewery, Canton
August Beck's Lager Beer Brewery, Fredercik Road, Baltimore
George Brehm Brewery,  Belair Road extended
Maryland Brewery
Bernhard Berger's Lager Beer Brewery, Belivdere Street near Greenmount Avenue
J.L. Sanders   705 South Charles Street
Thos. B. Cooke, 1426 - 28 Eastern Avenue
Staten Island Bottling Co. 2206 12- Frederick Road
W.J. Wickham & Sons, 707, 723-25 West Pratt Street
Chesapeake Beer Bottling Co. , 424 West Baltimore Street
Jackson & Tucker " Iron Beer" , 6 South Howard Street
J.H.Von der Horst & Sons - Eagle Brewery  Belair Road Extended
J.F. Wiessner & Brothers Company, Highlandtown
Oriential Brewery, corner of Third and Lancaster, Canton
S. Helldorfer - Star Brewery 21-27 Lancaster Street Extended
J.L.Strauss & Brother, National Brewing - O'Donnell and 3rd Street
Enterprise Brewery , Garrison Lane & Baltimore Street
Geo Bauernschmidt's Brewery , Belair Avenue at Oliver Street
Bartholomay Brewing Co. " Rochester New York "' Baltimore Branch, 70-2 North Street
Bauernschmidt & Marr Brewery
Spring Garden Brewing Company " Foot Ridgely Street "
Henry Werner's Lager Beer Brewery - 370, 373, 376 Pennsylvania Avenue
Henry Eigerbrot's Lager Beer Brewery - 28-30 Wilkens Street - near Frederick Avenue
White Beer Brewery - 818 South Bond Street
F. Schneider's Lager Beer Brewery - 3rd and Dillon  - Highlandtown
John Sommerfeld Lager Beer Brewery - 2115-41 Calverton Avenue
John Bauernschmidt Jr. - Mount Brewery - 1707 West Pratt Street
Edward W. Stiefer - Carrollton Lager Beer Brewery - Frederick Road

Breweries listed in 1940 City Directory :

American Brewing Company Inc. - 1700 North Gay Street
Arrow Beer Company - 327 South Hanover Street
Bismarck Brewing Company - 1808 North Patterson Park Avenue
Bruton Brewing Company - 3501 Brehms Lane
Free State Brewing Company - 1108 Hillen
Globe Brewing Company ( Arrow Beer ) 327 South Hanover Street
Gunther Brewing Company - 1211 South Conking Street
Imperial Brewing Company - 1838 North Patterson Park
National Brewing Company - Conking and O'Donnell Street

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................................................................................................................Baltimore ad - circa 1908

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