San Diego Brewing Company

San Diego Brewing Company
Industry Brewing
Founded San Diego, California, 1896
Defunct 1942
Headquarters San Diego, California, U.S.A.

The San Diego Brewing Company was a historic brewery in San Diego, California.

History

The San Diego Brewing Company opened in 1896 as the first commercial brewery in San Diego County. It was financed by wealthy locals including John D. Spreckels and quickly became the largest manufacturing enterprise in the county. It was located on 32nd street in San Diego. It operated on a large scale; in 1906 it added a state-of-the-art, 100-ton compressor for refrigeration.[1]

At first the company delivered kegs of beer in horse-drawn wagons; by 1914 it had switched to motor vehicles.[2] The brewery delivered 140,000 barrels a year, locally to saloons and hotel bars, as well as out of town by rail,[3] shipping beer as far as San Francisco and Arizona.[4] The company purchased several other local breweries, including Mission Brewery, and in 1914 it took the name San Diego Consolidated Brewing Company.[3]

The company stopped brewing in 1920 because of Prohibition. For a time it produced a near beer called Hopski, but in 1925 it abandoned that as well.[3] In 1935 with the end of Prohibition the company resumed brewing. It continued in operation until 1942, when it was displaced by the U.S. Navy's 32nd Street Naval Station.[5]

Current brewery

A brewpub by the same name now operates in Mission Valley.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "News of Companies and Plants". Cold Storage and Ice Trade Journal 16: 40. November 1906.
  2. ↑ "Early San Diego Breweries". San Diego History Center. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 Liwag, Ernie; Schiff, Matthew. "San Diego's Craft Brew Culture" (PDF). The Journal of San Diego History: 10.
  4. ↑ "With the bottler in the Golden West". American Bottler 35: 47. May 28, 1915.
  5. 1 2 "Who we are". San Diego Brewing Company. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
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