Bay View Brewing Company
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Export Beer label ca.1891 | etched glass, ca.1890 |
Bay View Brewery (1893-1913)
On 11 January of 1893, Bay View joined with the breweries of Albert Braun and Claussen-Sweeney to form a new association - the Seattle Brewing & Malting Company. The brand name eventually chosen for the company's flag-ship beer was "Rainier".
The Bay View Brewing
Company was disolved but the plant
continued to operate, producing various products for the parent
company. In 1906 a bottling shop and
additional refrigeration was added to the Bay View plant.
Brewing ceased in August of 1913, with all production shifted to the
main plant in Georgetown, but the bottling works continued operating. Then
state-wide Prohibition was voted in, to take effect on Jan. 1, 1916, so the
company made plans to shift operations to San Francisco.
The Bayview Milling
Co. operated until 18 June, 1933, when Emil Sick
took out a lease on the plant from Montague's widow and re-opened the
old Bay View Brewery as the
Century Brewery.
Sick soon vacated the lease and purchased the plant outright. It would later be known as the Rainier Brewery.
Brewery photo ca.1898
showing the Grant St. bridge and tracks
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Thanks to Kurt Chambers for the image of the "Bay View
Brewing Lager Beer" sign. For any comments, additions, or corrections -
They made the move to California in the belief that national Prohibition
would not be approved, but they were wrong. Prohibition bacome the
law of the land on Jan. 16, 1920. The Hemrich family knew that there was no
hope of re-opening the Bay View plant any time soon, plus they still owned
the huge Georgetown plant and a new plant in San Francisco. So, they decided
to cut their losses and sell the Bay View Brewery.
With little value as a brewery they hoped to find a buyer who could put the
plant to other uses. They found such a buyer in Robert Bruce Montague and
partner, Manley Harshman, and in Nov. of 1918 the plant was sold. With
milling experience gained in the Far East, the two new owners re-equipped
the plant for the milling of flour and feed grain. In February of 1919, the
plant went online as the Bayview Milling Company. Harshman was soon bought
out, leaving Montague as sole proprietor. Unfortunately, Montague died in
1927, but his widow continued to run the enterprise.
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