Baltimore & Beer   .......................................Updated 10-16-2009

  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. Just how long that luck holds out is another matter. ( Update, the luck held up ! - The building has been saved !!! )
....................................................American Brewery Building Baltimore 2008
American Beer

American Brewery Company
1100 North Gay Street
East Baltimore City, Maryland
..................American Brewery Building Baltimore  

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

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

    Kilduff's has just added information on Arrow Beer , which was produced by the Globe Brewery Company in Baltimore. To the right, a Arrow " Bock Beer " , 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 could be 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 Brewey 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
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


.......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
National Brewing Company
The Land of Pleasant Living "

.......................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
......................................................................................National Premuim Beer Baltimore
Just discovered in South Baltimore, the Pabst Brewing Building on South Charles Street. The building has been there for years, and seems to get more attention ofn this page than any other company. It appears to have been a bottling factory, and was active all the way back to 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
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Updated 10-16-2009............................................................

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