This newspaper ad thumbnail at right from the Oregonian, published in , shows that if the stein wasn't made in it was certainly made no later than The San Francisco fire and earthquake on April 18, , had a serious effect on the city's breweries and bottlers, with many plants severely damaged or lost entirely. Consequently, the city faced a severe shortage of beer. The result of the shortage was that numerous Northwest breweries received huge orders for beer.
The Olympia Brewing Co. While Weinhard didn't go that far they did consider a larger presence in the city. However, the disaster leveled the bottling works, and had to be rebuilt. A larger bottling works was completed and the California Bottling Co. Portland Beer label ca. Those interested in the concern are M.
Lang, William Neuman and George V. Paul Wessinger is president of this concern, and Mr. Neuman is manager of the works. By March of , A. Buttner had replaced Neuman as manager. Materials used are only the finest Chevalier white barley grown on the Pacific Coast and malted in our own malt house at Portland, Ore.
For San Francisco bottling purposes, special beer is brewed named Gold Seal. The Rheingold beer, equal to any imported draught beer in the market, is handled by most important cafes and saloons in San Francisco and vicinity, as well as throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Nevada.
As stated on a postcard, it was the largest concrete building in the world. It opened on May 1st, They did a bottling for the Elks called Special Brew, as shown in this Oregonian newspaper ad of July 7, see thumbnail. The brewery did something else special for the Elks convention. They issued a unique promotional item - a "nippers" flask in the form of an elks tooth that advertised "H. Weinhard's Rheingold Beer on draught" see thumbnail. By , the Brewery had dropped their Export and Portland brands, leaving only Columbia and Kaiserblume in bottles or draught , with Standard and Rheingold as two brands that were only available on draught.
Then in February , Ye Olde Colonial Beer was introduced - along with a gold rimed etched glass, sporting a design in a periwinkle blue, as a sales incentive see glasses below. Interestingly, the water is identified on the label as "pure Bull Run water. Unfortunately, this and the rest of the Henry Weinhard Brewery's output of beer was soon to be halted. Neither are bailouts for that matter. So when a series of bars around town started going south, Henry generously purchased them to help keep them in business.
And for the sake of the beer drinkers of Portland, it's a good thing he did. One time when the city of Portland unveiled a public fountain, Henry offered to pump beer through it. The city declined citing a fear of rowdy horses. They always blame the horses. What can you say about a man who believed so strongly in sharing good beer that he gave it to his employees for free? Because that's exactly what Henry did. While his exact reply is not fit for print, let's just say his answer was no.
During the bank panic of , fearing a total collapse, people were lining up to withdraw their money. Never one to go along with the crowd, Henry strode to the front of line and made a massive deposit. I remembered this milestone as the torrent of brewery-closure announcements flooded us last week.
There was something very familiar in the emotional experience back in Would a Henry-less Portland still be Portland? The answer, to me, has never fully been yes. But brewing has more than rebounded. In its place has sprung an environment in which hundreds of breweries thrive in the state. The 1. Very few cities had their own hometown breweries in , and fewer still as old as Weinhard. More importantly, in the s, Blitz-Weinhard introduced the Weinhard line of premium beers starting with Private Reserve.
Blitz was the flagship brand—a completely forgettable mainstream lager. It helped launch local brewing in , and it introduced an IPA that changed the style landscape permanently in Of course, the Beervana BridgePort helped create had changed and morphed so much that by the time it closed in , BridgePort was itself obsolete. In its place are dozens of descendants —history rhyming along.
Twenty years ago were melancholy times in Portland.
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