Anthracite Brewing Company ->John P. Muldowney Brewery ->Mount Carmel Brewery

Anthracite Brewing Company (1897 - 1920)
* Lehigh Avenue & Poplar Street, Mount Carmel, PA
* 1914 Mt Carmel Business Directory: Anthracite Brewing Co., Pike opp L.V. depot
* Telephone Directory of Businesses of Mount Carmel, 1921: Anthracite Brewing Co brewers nr L V Depot
* Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933

Mount Carmel Beer

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The John P. Muldowney Brewery (1933-1936)
* Lehigh Ave & Turnpike Street
* Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-353 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933

Anthracite Beer 1933 - 1936
Anthracite Porter 1933 - 1936
Anthracite Bock 1933 - 1936

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Mount Carmel Brewery (1936-1951)
* Closed in 1951

Anthracite Bock 1936 - 1945
Anthracite Porter 1936 - 1945
Anthracite Beer 1936 - 1945

Metzger's Porter 1939 - 1951
Metzger's Beer 1939 - 1951

Mount Carmel Ale 1940 - 1949
Mount Carmel Beer 1940 - 1949
Mount Carmel Porter 1940 - 1949


Black Diamond Ale 1942 - 1951
Black Diamond Beer 1942 - 1951


Aimes Beer 1950 - 1951

"Fuhrmann & Schmidt had family flavor" article from the Shamokin News-Item

The Fuhrmann and Schmidt Brewing Co. was a family business in more ways than one. It was a business that attracted members of different generations of families - and those of the same generation.

This held true for Max Schmidt - who co-founded the brewery in 1895 with P.H. Fuhrmann - and his son Frank W. Schmidt, who served as president of the firm for nearly two decades. It also held true for a considerable number of the employees.

When Francis "Punch" Zielinskie of Coal Township traces his family tree, quite a few branches have F&S foam on them. His grandfather Frank Omlor was longtime master brewmaster at F&S. His father Alphonse "Ike" Zielinskie worked there from 1933 until the brewery was closed. His uncle Jerome Zielinskie was employed there for many years, as was his father-in-law Sam Kolonoski who started his long employment there in 1934.

"There were quite a few brothers who worked there," recalled "Punch" "There were the Appeals, "Nibs" and "Bob," the Gemberlings, the Grow brothers, the Mudrick brothers, the Maerkls," he said, noting the Kasemen family was also associated with the operation.

These family ties and the relatively laid-back atmosphere of a "small" brewery led to the other type of family at F&S - a family atmosphere among management and employees. "They were always together, even when they had their union meetings," said Zielinskie. "They got just about everyone at those union meetings." And when you have families, you're sure to have memories and anecdotes.

Some are from a general nature. Zielinskie recalls the week of preparations it would take to get ready for the annual clambake his grandfather Frank Omlor would stage for members of the Master Brewmaster Association of the Eastern United States.

"Another thing they always did at F&S was try to find the ugliest Christmas tree they could find" said Zielinskie "And I mean they use to get some ugly ones, all the decorations where made at the brewery - bottle caps, coasters, empty cans, labels."

Another Christmas tradition involved bartering with another long-gone Shamokin buisness, Martz's Dairy. "They'd make eggnog and trade a case of beer with Martz's for every case of milk or cream they needed for the eggnog."

Robert F. Appeal, who worked at F&S for over 35 years, gets a gleam in his eye's when he recalls the craftsmanship of some of his co-workers and the antics of others. There was a skilled cheif mechanic named William "Bizz" Thew "He was all over the brewery recalled Appeal, "You didn't have much down time for anything... He was a mechanical genius."

Then there was a cooper (barrel maker) by the name of Andrew Mihalik who lived on Bunker Hill. "He was a real craftsmen," said Appeal. "He would take the barrels apart because they were leaking, He was a real master, He would put them barrels together and there wouldn't be a drop out of them."

On the other end of the workmanship scale was a guy known as "Wagon Tongue John" so named because of his habit of putting pipes together -barely- Appeal said anytime steam started to escape from a loosely connected pipe, they could be sure that "Wagon Tongue John" had been involved.

He also laughed as he recalled the exaggerations of a boiler room employee with "extensive" work experience. Appeal said this guy would say that he has spent so many years in the boiler room , so many years at another job in the brewery and so on. "Until he got done, he was a 135 years old and had worked there 300 years."

Zielinskie recalled the skill of "Dutch" Deitrich, a salesmen, at setting up F&S displays in barrooms throughout the region. Incidentally, the "Dutch" nickname proved to be well earned when he spoke Pennsylvania Dutch to peddle F&S in taprooms in the "valleys"

One anecdote may sum up the mixture of hard work and good humor found at F&S Brewery. Frank Olmor was a master brewmaster, but he "He liked his fun" as his grandson recalls. "The fellow who use to put the seals across the barrels of beer used glue, it was thick stuff," said Zielinskie,"And every time one of the workers from the racking room would come by and turn the brush upside down and put it back in the glue."

A hand full of glue gets old mighty quickly, so the justifiably upset barrel labeler went to Olmor to vent his rage. The brewmaster called the employees into the office and told them in no uncertain terms he wanted the upside brush work to stop immediately. "My dad said that when every one left my grandfather, went out of the room and put the handle of the brush in the glue," Zielinskie said.

Article written by Walter Kozlowski
Shamokin News-Item Assistant Editor
Wed. February 28, 1996

source: http://web.archive.org/web/20041022070155/www.haywired.com/stahkalien/FAMILYflavor.html

"F&S once 'cut the dust' for thristy coal miners" article from the Shamokin News-Item

Area coal helped meet a nation's energy needs and beer helped fill "dust cutting" needs of the men who mined the coal, so it is not to surprising that the development and growth of brewing in the Shamokin-Coal Township area paralelled that of mining.

The area's coal industry was still in it's infancy when the brewing industry was born in 1854 when Thomas Richards and John B. Douty started Eagle Run Brewery. This small ale and porter brewery was located near Weigh Scales between two mountains where Eagle Run furnished the water for the product as well as its name. It has long since disappeared but its memory is recalled by the "Brewery Curve" on Route 61 between Shamokin and Paxinos .

Owenership changed hands in December 1871 when Martin Markle acquired the brewery from the Douty family and made extensive improvements . One of the more creative ones was to carve out a large vault in the red shale rock of the mountain near the brewery so the malt beverages could be stored in a "natural refrigerator"

The men whose names would be forever associated with local beer , P. H. Fuhrman and Max Schmidt did not come on the scene until 1895.

A native of Barvaria Germany, Fuhrmann came to pennsylvania in 1883 and settled in Dubois. The following year he became a sales man for the Charles D. Kaier Brewery in Mohanoy City and later became a partner in that operation after he supervised construction of a new brewery.

Schmidt, a native of Prussia Germany came to America in 1877 . He went into the grocery buisness in Philadelphia and later moved to Shenandoah to join his brother in a partnership to run a store there.

Schmidt became part of a second, more long lasting partnership in 1896 after his friend Fuhrmann came to Shamokin from Mahanoy City to purchase the Eagle Run Brewery the previous year. It was incorporated as the Fuhrmann & Schmidt Brewing Co. and offices where established in the building at Commerce and Washington streets that served as its main offices for many years, later becoming the V F W.

Quite a market soon developed for the Brewery's Fuhrmann & Schmidt Pilsner, which later become just F&S Pilsner. As F&S expanded operations expanded to include distribution and bottling works in Harrisburg, Gettysburg,Williamsport, Carlisle, Mount Carmel, Girardville and Trevorton.

Early in the 20th century, the plant firm purchased the hugeplant of the Shamokin Brewing Co. located on Harrison Street in the Fifth Ward and modernized it to keep pace with damand for its product. The old Eagle Run Plant was abandoned as a brewing astablishment in 1915 when it was extensively damaged by fire.

Fuhrmann & Schmidt had to look beyond beer with the advent of Prohibition 1918 and the company was equal to the task. The fire damaged Eagle Run facility was rebuilt and plants added in Gasport, N.Y. and Asper to accommodate a food munufacturing enterprise that produced vinegar, bouilon cubes, mayonnaise and maraschino cherries.

With the appeal of Prohibition in 1933. F&S was back in the beer buisness with Fuhrmann still as president and Schmidt still as secretary.

The Shamokin Brewery continued to grow while other small breweries throughout the region lost there foam and went flat in the next two decades.

In fact, in 1946 demand for F&S beer had increased to point where the company inaugurated an ambitious building program. This included enlarging storage facilities, installing a new cellar that contained 13 glass lined tanks to increase storage capacity to 5,941 barrels, an adding an all new electric engineer room and machine shop.

The expansion was capped off in 1954 with the completion of the new bottling shop, garage and new offices at a cost of $300,000.

Theese changes were reflected in a new package design and advertising program that featured the "Sealed Ageing Process"

Frank R. Schmidt succeeded his fathers partner as F&S president and served in that position until his retirement in the 1960's, and he was succeeded by Albert F. Buchler

It was not to long after Schmidt's retirement that a tradition of 70 or so years ended when the Henry F Ortlieb Brewing Co. purchased the Fuhrmann & Schmidt Brewing Co.

Ortlieb retained the name, kept the F&S Premium, Ale and Porter, and had Buchler continue as president and J. Oliver Schmidt as vice president in charge of sales, but it was no longer a Fuhrmann & Schmidt operation.

By the early 19070's ownership has changed hands again. The new owners were James Verrastro, Williamsport and Murray Smith, Scranton. They were at the helm when the brewery limped into "voluntary bankruptcy" in late November, 1974.

A group of loyal, longtime employee's had the brewery almost ready to make one last go of it, but a $2 million fire that virtually destroyed the huge Harrison plant November 3, 1975 dashed their hopes. After 120 years the area had run out of beer.

Article written by Walter Kozlowski
Shamokin News-Item Assistant Editor
Wed. February 28, 1996

source: http://web.archive.org/web/20041022070405/www.haywired.com/stahkalien/CUTtheDUST.html

"F&S left sweet aftertaste" article from the Shamokin News-Item

Beer loses head to progress

The Fuhrmann & Schmidt Brewing Co. went out in a blaze, but its glory was a fading memory by the time fire ripped through the huge Harrison Street building on Monday, November 3,1975.

Hopes of reopening one of Shamokin's oldest and most colorful industries went up in the smoke that rose from a buisness started a century ago by a pair of German immigrants who came to the area via Schuykill County.

The brewery founded in 1895 when P.H Fuhrmann and Max Schmidt purchased the old Eagle Run Brewery, had been closed for about a year after its oweners, James Verrastro and Murray Smith, had declared a "voluntary bankruptcy" However , two longtime employees, Bob Appeal and Adolph John and other workers had been working for several months to reopen the plant by the end of November

In a matter of hours what was ready to go was gone. "Ther was no more brewery because it was all burned out," said Appeal. "We were in there fixing what we could fix and we were ready to go the following week" said Appeal, who worked at F&S since1939. "Another fellow and myself had the bottling building all ready to go." In a matter of hours what was ready to go was gone. "Ther was no more brewery because it was all burned out," said Appeal.

The Coal Township man started off his long career at F&S a few years before he should have "You had to be 21 years old before you could work in the brewery, but I got in when I was 18," said appeal, whose brother Nesbert worked there and later became a brewmaster. He was able to sidestep that rule by working in the bottling section. "I never did work where they were making beer" said Appeal. He didn't get near beer after work either, "One guy had to stay sober," he joked. "We never even had it in our refrigerator," added his wife Ruth.

When Appeal started to work at the brewery the golden age of small breweries was near its peak, F&S was just one of 766 breweries in the United States when it was reopened in 1933 after the repeal of prohibition "All the towns had them," said Appeal "There was one in Mount Carmel, one in Sunbury, one in Mahanoy City."

Back in 1939 - when Shamokin was celebrating their borough's 75th anniversary - F&S was employing scores of people. There were 52 men sporting the distinctive leather bow ties of the brewery in a picture of union members taken that year in honor of the occasion.

Appeal, the only one of the 52 men still living, was there when F&S embarked upon an ambitious eight year building program in 1946.

But by the time the improvements were done in 1954, the handwriting was on the barroom wall that the future of small breweries such as F&S was not bright.

Mount Carmel Brewery, which was opened in the same year Fuhrmann and Schmidt purchased the Eagle Run Brewery, 1895, was closed early in the 1950's.

An improved highway system, big advertising campaigns by big breweries, and the mass population shifts and decline of hometown ties brewed up by World War II and its aftermath was just some of the factors that made Mount Carmel's Brewery, one of hundreds of brewing casualties.

In 1955, Francis "Punch" Zielinski was considering going into the "family" buisness of brewing. He is the grandson of longtime F&S master brewmaster Frank Omlor, son and son-in-law of two longtime brewery employees and nephew of another brewmaster.

He sought the advice of his brewmaster grandfather before making a commitment to attend brewmaster school. "He said I was foolish," said Zielinski. "He said the big breweries would eat up the little breweries and there wouldn't be any more little breweries, thats eventually what happened."

But the end of F&S was not yet in sight. The brewery kept putting out 100,000 barrels a year of its high quality product - 150,000 or 160,000 in a good year - and retained a good share of the local market.

It's production was 160,000 barrels in 1966 the year the Henry F. Ortlieb Brewing Company "ate up" Fuhrmann and Schmidt, not to long after Frank B. Schmidt, had retired after many years as the firms president.

By the early 1970's, Ortlieb's had sold F&S to Verrastro and Smith, two entrepreneurs who had made their money in trucking and not in brewing.

"The brewery just kept fading away when Ortlieb gave it up," said Appeal "We where doing all right, They had a good buisness, Ther was to much competition and we lucky to 100,000 barrels a year, Some breweries had million's."

Then came the voluntary bankruptcy in 1974 and the finishing fire a year later and F&S was destined to become a source of memories to its former employees and their families and a source of collectibles to collectors.

A few years before the end, Appeal, bottling superintendent, and Edward Maerkl, the last F&S brewmaster, had a chance to see a "modern" brewery in operation when they attended a trade meeting at a larger operation in the Lehigh Valley.

After seeing the high-speed, mechanized method during a tour of the plant, Appeal turned to Maerkl and said, "They break as many bottles as we fill" Such is progress.

Article written by Walter Kozlowski
Shamokin News-Item Assistant Editor
Wed. February 28, 1996
source: http://web.archive.org/web/20041022070035/www.haywired.com/stahkalien/sweetAFTERTASTE.html

"Eagle Run Brewery" article from the Shamokin Dispatch, late 1890s

"Early in the 1850's, when brewing of beer was as yet an untried industry in the region; in fact, before it had attained to the dignity of a national institution, as it must now be considered, a small establishment, with a limited output of ale & porter exclusively, was operated in primitive fashion at Eagle Run by Gottlieb Fritz. This was the modest foundation of the recent finely-equipped plant now conducted by Fuhrmann & Schmidt Brewing Company, which has become widely known for the superiority of its product, a beer which connoisseurs are unanimous in according a distinction of flavor & zest such as is seldom found, a beer endorsed by physicians as especially rich in tonic properties. These results are obtained by absolutely hygienic methods of manufacture, by the exceptional purity of mountain water, by the experience which permits the use only of such ingredients as are guaranteed to be the best procurable and a very important factor-by ample facilities for properly maturing the products.

The result is a pure, clear, sparkling, wholesum product, the quality of which cannot be excelled by any brewery in the country; a fact which almost invariably occasions comment among travelers, and those in a position to judge. This applies like-wise to the Porter & Ale brewed by this firm, which gained an enviable reputation way beyond the boundaries of Northumberland County, and class among the finest made on account of their absolute purity and wholesomeness.

As to machinery, this brewery has the best equipped apparatus and appliances, not only in the anthracite coal region, but probably in the state. This machinery was installed at an enotmous expense for the purpose of producing the famous "Eagle Run" Beer, Porter, and Ale in an absolute sanitary and hygienic manner. At no stage of the process of brewing or fermentation, in fact, not until the beverages are brought to the lips of the consumer, do they come in contact with either human hands nor the atmosphere, and as all vessels and vats in the brewery are sterilized before getting re-used, every chance for contamination is positively excluded.

The storage facilities of Eagle Run Brewery are in keeping with the machinery, and at present allow an output of fully matured beer of 50,000 barrels per annum. There is such a great demand, however, for their products, that the proprietors are compelled to provide additional storage rooms, which now are in course of erection, and after their completion the plant will be large enough to turn out double that amount.

In connection with the brewery there is an ice plant of twenty-five tons daily capacity. Following their policy of looking out for the greatest possible purity, the Company installed a system of re-distilling the water used for ice; that is, after generating steam from Eagle Run water, it is condensed and then again generated and condensed, therby killing all possible germs and bacterias, which are removed by a system of charcoal and gravel filtering apparatus.

In order to accommodate private families and hotel tables, a large and likewise sanitary bottling establishment has been erected at the corner of Washington and Commerce Streets, and from there the products of Eagle Run Brewery, in nicely put up bottles, find their way into the homes of poor and rich, and on account of their small percentage of alcohol and large amount of nutrition, are welcomed as the ideal combination of temperance drink and stimulant; as the celebrated Professor Liebig truly stated, they are "liquid food."

Probably only a few people have a true conception of the enormous amount of capital invested in and the amount of labor employed by a modern establishment of the extent of the Eagle Run Brewery. The brewery property covers several acres of ground and the buildings are from three to four stories high and erected in brick and iron construction. Besides this there are eleven houses for the workmen, and the Company can justly boast of having solved the problem of suitable dwellings for the working class, as every one of their's is light and airy and has all modern conveniences, such as hot and cold water, bathrooms, water closets, and lofty verandas.

There are not less than sixty hands directly employed by Eagle Run Brewery, the lowest wages for men being $15.00 a week. This number is at least doubled by indirect employment through their agents, and augmented by a great number of all kinds of mechanics, such as carpenters, painters, saddlers, wheelwrights, blacksmiths, ect.,ect., doing their respective work in the different shops in Shamokin and Coal Township. Over sixty head of horses and mules are required to deliver the goods of the brewery."

Shamokin Dispatch article, late 1890s

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Coal Region Breweries

Anthracite Brewing Company, Mount Carmel, founded in 1897, became the Mt. Carmel Brewery, closed in 1951

Fuhrmann & Schmidt Brewing Company, Shamokin, began operations in 1854 as the Eagle Run Brewery, bought by H. Ortlieb Brewing Company in 1966, ceased operations in spring 1976
Trade Names for the brewery at 235/255 South Harrison Street, Shamokin, PA:
Shamokin Brewing Co. 1905-1911
Fuhrmann & Schmidt Brewing Co., Shamokin Brewery (Harrison St) 1911-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-377 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Fuhrmann & Schmidt Brewing Co. 1933-1966
Purchased by Henry F. Ortlieb of Philadelphia, PA 1966
Fuhrmann & Schmidt Brewing Co. 1966-1975
aka: Braumeisters International Brg. Co. 1966-1975
aka: Flair Brewing. Co. 1966-1975
aka: Innsbrau Brewing Co. 1966-1975
aka: Chas D. Kaier Brewing Co. 1966-1975
Closed in 1975
Status of the building is unknown.

F&S Beer 1934 - 1975
Fuhrmann & Schmidt Ale 1936 - 1947
Fuhrmann & Schmidt Beer 1936 - 1947
Fuhrmann & Schmidt Porter 1936 - 1947
F&S Ale 1936 - 1973
F&S Bock 1937 - 1975
Barker Premium Beer 1953 - 1959
F&S Half & Half 1955 - 1965
Master Premium Beer 1960 - 1963
Four Season Premium Beer 1961 - 1963
Schlichler-Brau Premium Beer 1961 - 1963
100th Anniversary Premium Beer 1962 - 1962
Mr. Liquor Fair Deluxe Beer 1962 - 1963
Tusker Premium Beer 1963 - 1965
Delmonaco Beer 1964 - 1966
Geisler's Premium Beer 1964 - 1966
Millrose Beer 1964 - 1966
Rod & Gun Pennsylvania Beer 1964 - 1966
Toms River Beer 1964 - 1966
Rheinbrau Beer 1965 - 1966
F&S Malta 1965 - 1970
G.E.X. Premium Ale 1965 - 1972
G.E.X. Premium Beer 1965 - 1972
Old German Draft Beer 1965 - 1975
Old German Lager Beer 1965 - 1975

Innsbrau Brewing Company, Shamokin, operated by the Fuhrmann & Schmidt Brewing Company, closed in 1974

Charles D. Kaier Company, Shamokin & Mahanoy City, founded in 1861, sold to the Ortlieb Brewing Companyin 1966.
Trade Names for the brewery at Oak & Laurel Streets & 67/79 North Main Street, Mahanoy City, PA:
Chas, D. Kaier 1880-1882
Chas. D. Kaier & Co. 1882-1884
Francis X. Kaier 1884-1891
Chas. D. Kaier Brewing Co. (111 East Centre Street) 1891-1894
Chas. D. Kaier Co., Ltd. (67/79 North Main & West Laurel Streets) 1894-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920
Issued permit L-?? for the production of non-alcoholic beverages during Prohibition 1920
Kaier Brewing Co. 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-320 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Charles D. Kaier Co. 1933-1966
Purchased by the Henry F. Ortlieb Brewery of Philadelphia 1966
Charles D. Kaier Co., Branch of Henry F. Ortlieb 1966-1968
Closed in 1968

Dublin Porter 1933 - 1947
Kaier's Half & Half 1933 - 1968
Kaier's Bock 1933 - 1968
Kaier's Special Ale 1933 - 1968
Kaier's Special Porter 1933 - 1968
Kaier's Special Beer 1933 - 1968
Old Diamond Porter 1934 - 1947
Old Diamond Ale 1934 - 1947

Engel & Schmidt Brewing Company opened in 1897 in Fountain Springs
Schuylkill Home Brewing Company 1911-19??
Ashland Brewing Company 1915-1920
Pure Springs Brewing Company closed in 1934
Ashland Brewing Company, Aka: Ashland Brewery, C. E. Sautters proprietor 1934-1935
Thomas V. Melloy Dba: Ashland Brewery 1935-1940
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920
Issued permit L-?? for the production of non-alcoholic beverages during Prohibition 1920
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-366A allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Closed in 1940

Pure Springs Beer 1933 - 1935

Columbia Brewing Company, Shenandoah (1894-1968), a.k.a. the Muhlheim Brewing Company
Trade Names for the brewery at 101/115 South Ferguson Street, Shenandoah, PA:
Columbia Brewing Co. (110/1H South Main St) 1894-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-347 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Columbia Brewing Co. 1933-1968
aka: Muhlheim Brg. Co. 1964-1968
Closed in 1968

Columbia Ale 1933 - 1968
Columbia Bock 1933 - 1968
Columbia Porter 1933 - 1968
Columbia Beer 1933 - 1968
Gem Beer 1938 - 1968
Ger-Brau Beer 1938 - 1968
Ger-Brau Bock Beer 1938 - 1968
Creamsbred Beer 1949 - 1963
B.B.B. Beer 1950 - 1953
Senators Club Beer 1953 - 1967
Whitman & Lord Beer 1955 - 1965
Old Monterey Inn Beer 1962 - 1965

Frackville Brewing Company, Frackville, founded in 1934, bought out by Chas. D. Kaier Company in 1936
>Trade Names for the brewery at Chestnut & Middle Streets, Frackville, PA:
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-312A allowing operation of a brewery 1933
Frackville Brewing Co. 1933-1934
Closed in 1934
Word on the street is that the brewery building is currently owned by the Becker Trucking Co. and is being used for storage.

Mountain Top Porter 1933 - 1934
Mountain Top Beer 1933 - 1934
Frackville Beer 1934 - 1936

Freeland Brewing Co., Freeland
Trade Names for the brewery at 500/524 Fern & South Streets, Freeland, PA:
Freeland Brewing Co. 1900-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-376 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
New Freeland Brewing Co. 1933-1934
Freeland Brewing Co. 1934-1939
Kehoe-Tilinski Brewing Corp. 1941-1942
Closed in 1942

Freeland Ale 1933 - 1940
Freeland Bock 1933 - 1940
Freeland Beer 1933 - 1940
Freeland Porter 1933 - 1940

Trade Names for the brewery at 5th & Mahantongo Streets, Pottsville, PA:
David G. Yuengling 1829-1831 (North Centre Street)
David G. Yuengling 1831-1873 (501 Mahantongo Street)
D. G. Yuengling & Sons, Eagle Brewery 1873-1914
D. G. Yuengling & Son, Inc. 1914-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-339 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Yuengling S Son, Inc. 1920-1933
Issued permit L-161 for the production of non-alcoholic beverages during Prohibition 1920
D. G. Yuengling & Son, Inc. 1933-Present
aka: Mt. Carbon Brewery 1976-Present
America's oldest continuously operating brewery.

Yuengling Special 1920 - 1933
Yuengling Por-Tor Beverage 1920 - 1933
Yuengling Juvo 1920 - 1933
Winner Beer 1933 - 1935
Yuengling's Near Beer 1933 - 1935
Alo Near Beer 1933 - 1937
Olde Oxford Cream Ale 1933 - 1937
Lord Chesterfield Ale 1934 - Present
Yuengling's Ale 1934 - Present
Yuengling's Porter 1934 - Present
Yuengling's Beer 1934 - Present
Yuengling Bock 1948 - Present
Prize Beer 1959 - 1963
Old German Beer 1973 - Present

Mount Carbon Brewery, Pottsville, founded in 1845 as George Lauer, closed in 1976
Trade Names for the brewery at 716 South Centre Street, Pottsville, PA:
George Lauer circa 1845-1860
Frederick Lauer (Mauck Chunk & Jackson Sts) 18??-1877
Lorenz Schmidt, Orchard Brewery 1877-1893
Estate of Lorenz Schmidt, Mount Carbon Brewery (Main St, Mount Carbon) 1893-1906
Schmidt Estate Brewing Co., Mount Carbon Brewery 1906-1908
Mallett & Nichter Brewing Co. 1908-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-321 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Matthew Kelley, trading as Mt. Carbon Brewery 1933-1935
Mount Carbon Brewery, 1935-1976
aka: Mt. Carbon Mfg. & Supply Co. 1936-1942
Closed in 1942

Mount Carbon Ale 1933 - 1951
Mount Carbon Beer 1933 - 1951
Double Pilsener Beer 1934 - 1938
Mount Carbon Half & Half 1934 - 1939
Mount Carbon Bock 1934 - 1941
Mount Carbon October Beer 1935 - 1941
M.C. Ale 1935 - 1943
M.C. Bock 1935 - 1943
M.C. Porter 1935 - 1943
M.C. Beer 1935 - 1943
Franklin Ale 1935 - 1945
Mount Carbon Porter 1935 - 1977
Bavarian Type Beer 1941 - 1977
Old German Beer 1942 - 1949
Old Bohemian Beer 1942 - 1977
Dix Club Beer 1944 - 1947
Old Dutch Beer 1944 - 1949
Franklin Beer 1945 - 1948
Lord Salisbury Ale 1945 - 1975
Old Fashioned Beer 1947 - 1951
Club Society Beer 1953 - 1956
Bavarian Type Bock 1953 - 1977

Rahn Brewing Company, Inc. of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, USA
Trade Names for the Rahn Brewing Co., Inc. at 41 West Broad Street, Tamaqua, PA:
Joseph Adam (Broad Street) 1860-1891
Redig 18??- 11
John F. McGinty's Brewery 1898-1909
Liberty Brewing Co. (East Broad street, bank of the Schuylkill River) 1909-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-331A allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Lehigh Valley Brewing Co., Inc. 1933-1934
Rahn Brewing Co., Inc. 1934-1934
Closed in 1934

Rettig Brewing Company Pottsville, Pennsylvania
Trade Names for the brewery at 818/900 West Market & 9th Streets, Pottsville, PA:
(Charles) Rettig & (John) Liebner, Blue Tavern & Brewery 1865-1868 (Southwest corner of East Norwegian & Railroad Streets)
Gottlieb Steidle, Blue Brewery & Saloon 1868-1868
Rettig & Liebner, Blue Tavern & Brewery (NW corner of Market & 9th Streets) 1869-1877
Charles Rettig 1877-1892
Estate of Charles Rettig (820 West Market St) 1892-1893
Charles Rettig & Son 1893-1901
Rettig Brewing Co. 1901-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Failed to get U-Permit 1933
Rettig Brewing Co. NP 1934-1934
Closed in 1972

Rettig Ale 1901 - 1920
Rettig Beer 1901 - 1920
Rettig Porter 1901 - 1920

Deppen Brewing Company, Reading, founded in 1828 as Peter Nagel, closed in 1937
Trade Names for the brewery at 341 North 3rd Street, Reading, PA:
Peter Nagel 1828-1845
Nicholas A. Felix, Spring Garden Brewery (931/937 Chestnut Street) 1845-1874
Estate of N. A. Felix 1874-1879
WO. P. Deppen, M.D. 1879-1901
Deppen Brewing Co. 1901-1908
Deppen Brewing Co., Spring Garden Brewery 1908-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-348 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Deppen Manufacturing Co. 1933-1937
Closed in 1937

Deppen's Ale 1933 - 1937
Deppen's Beer 1933 - 1937
Deppens Porter 1933 - 1937
Queen Quality Porter 1933 - 1937
Queen Quality Beer 1933 - 1937
Bob Ale 1934 - 1936
Bob Beer 1934 - 1936
Ramona Ale 1934 - 1936
Ramona Beer 1934 - 1936
Buzz Beer 1934 - 1937
Edinburgh Ale 1934 - 1937

Barbey's, Inc., Reading, founded in 1859 as Barbey & Peltzer, closed in 1970
Trade Names for the brewery at Hockley, West Elm & Gordon Streets, Reading, PA:
(Peter) Barbey & (Abraham) Peltzer (647/649 Penn St) 1859-1861
Peter Barbey 1861-1869
Peter Barbey (Hockley & North River Sts) 1869-1880
Peter Barbey & Son 1880-1920
aka: P. Barbey & Son (office at 430 Court) 1880-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-300 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Barbey's Inc. 1933-1951
Sunshine Brewing Co. 1951-1970
aka: Bavarian Brewing Co, 1968-70
aka: Esslinger, Inc. 1967-70
aka: Falcon Brewing Co. 1961-63
aka: Hatfield-McCoy Brewing Co. 1963-65
aka: Jamaica Brewing Co. 1964-66
aka: Muhlheim Brewing Co. 1962-68
aka: Playmate Brewing Co. 1967-68
aka: Ruppert Brewing Co. 1967-68
Closed in 1968

Sunshine Ale 1933 - 1951
Sunshine Bock 1933 - 1951
Sunshine Porter 1933 - 1951
Sunshine Beer 1933 - 1951
Franklin Beer 1935 - 1938

Old Reading Brewery, Reading, founded in 1886 as the Reading Brewing Company, closed in 1976
Trade Names for the brewery at South 9th & Little Laurel Streets, Reading, PA:
Reading Brewing Co. 1886-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued permit L-?? for the production of non-alcoholic beverages during Prohibition 1920
Health Beverage Co. 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-316 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Also issued U-Permit No. PA-U-361A 1933
The Old Reading Brewery, Inc. 1933-1965
aka: Dutch Country Brewing Co. 1961-1965
aka: Reading Brewing Co. 1961-1965
aka: The Reading Brewery 1965-1976
aka: Bergheim Brewing Co. 1965-1976
aka: Mein Brewing Co. 1973-1976
Closed in 1975

Old Reading Bock 1933 - 1969
Old Reading Bock 1933 - 1969
Old Reading Beer 1933 - 1969
Old Reading Beer 1933 - 1969
Old Reading Ale 1934 - 1947
Old Reading Ale 1934 - 1947
Old Reading Porter 1934 - 1949
Old Reading Porter 1934 - 1949
Old Reading Half & Half 1936 - 1948
Old Reading Half & Half 1936 - 1948
Bru-Joy Ale 1937 - 1945
Bru-Joy Bock 1937 - 1945
Bru-Joy Porter 1937 - 1945
Bru-Joy Beer 1937 - 1945
Bru-Joy Half & Half 1937 - 1945
Berkshire Ale 1939 - 1969
Pale Reserve Beer 1940 - 1969
Class A Bock 1947 - 1951
Class A Half & Half 1947 - 1951
Class A Beer 1947 - 1951
Yorktown Beer 1955 - 1969
Manheim Beer 1957 - 1968
Prizer Beer 1958 - 1969
Munter Bräu Beer 1960 - 1962
Mardi Gras Malt Liquor 1960 - 1967
Bialy Orzel Beer 1963 - 1966
Bergheim Beer 1963 - 1969
Reading Ale 1963 - 1969
Reading Beer 1963 - 1969
Yorktown Beer 1969 - 1975
Bergheim Beer 1969 - 1976
Pale Reserve Beer 1969 - 1976
Prizer Beer 1969 - 1976
Reading Ale 1969 - 1976
Reading Beer 1969 - 1984
Reading Bock Beer 1969 - 1984

Berwick Brewing Co. of Berwick, Pennsylvania, USA
Trade Names for the brewery in Berwick, PA:
Berwick Brewing Co. 1907-1908
Closed in 1908

Sunbury Brewing Company, Sunbury, founded in 1865 as Joseph Bacher, closed in 1937
Trade Names for the brewery at 7th & Packer Streets, Sunbury, PA:
Joseph Bacher 1865-1873
J. 4 A. Moeschlin, Cold Spring Brewery 1873-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-311 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Melvin G. Fahringer, Sunbury Brewery 1933-1934
Sunbury Brewing Co., Inc. 1934-1937
Closed in 1937

Sunbury Bock 1935 - 1937
Sunbury Porter 1935 - 1937
Sunbury Beer 1935 - 1937
Hoot Mon Ale 1935 - 1938
Old Bavarian Beer 1935 - 1938

Anthracite Beer Company, a.k.a. A. B. Company or A. B. Company Brewers, Scranton, founded in 1899 as Consumers Beer Company, closed in 1937
Trade Names for the brewery at 420 Nay Aug. Avenue, Scranton, PA:
Consumers Beer Co. 1899-1899
Anthracite Beer Co. 1899-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-329A allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
A. B. Company 1934-1937
aka: A. B. Co. Brewers 1934-1937
Closed in 1937
Status of the building is unknown.

Bohemian Beer 1933 - 1937
Brown Stout Porter 1933 - 1937
Robin Hood Ale 1933 - 1937
Wurzburger Beer 1933 - 1937

Baer & Stegmaier, Wilkes-Barre (1863-1873)

Bartels Brewing Company, Edwardsville (1898 - 1968)
Trade Names for the brewery at Plymouth Street & Toby's Creek, Edwardsville (Wilkes-Barre), PA:
Bartels Brewing Co. (Edwardsville) 1898-1906
Bartels Brewing Co. (Kingston Station) 1907-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-392 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Bartels Brewing Co. 1933-1968
Closed in 1968

Casey & Kelly Brewing Company, Scranton (1892 - 1934)
Trade Names for the brewery at 431 North Central Avenue, Scranton, PA:
Casey & Kelly Brewing Co. (Remington Ave & Locust St) 1892-1897
Pennsylvania Central Brewing Co. of Scranton, Kasey & Kelly Brg. Dept. 1897-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-327 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Pennsylvania Central Brewing Co. 1933-1934
Closed in 1934

Peerless Beer 1900 - 1920

Pennsylvania Central Brewing Company of Scranton, John Arnold Brewery, Hazelton, founded in 1849 as Bach & Teufel, closed in 1931

Howell & King Company Brewery, Pittston (1866-1939)
Trade Names for the brewery at 7 Thomas Street, Pittston, PA:
E, Howell & A, D, King, Union Brewery (Thomas & Main St) 1866-1875
George Bishop 1875-1884
E. B. Long, receiver for Estate of Howell & King 1881-1888
Howell & King Co., Union Brewery 1888-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-357 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Howell & King Co. 1933-1935
Howell & King, Inc. 1935-1939
Closed in 1939
Status of the building is unknown.

Howell & King Ale 1934 - 1939
Howell & King Beer 1934 - 1939
Perfection Ale 1934 - 1939
Perfection Bock 1934 - 1939
Perfection Porter 1934 - 1939
Perfection Beer 1934 - 1939
Joyce's Perfection Ale 1935 - 1937
Joyce's Perfection Beer 1935 - 1937

Luzerne County Brewing Company, Wilkes-Barre, (1905-1910), became the Lion Brewing Company in 1910
Trade Names for the brewery at 5/6 Hart St & 700 North Pennsylvania Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, PA:
Luzerne County Brewing Co. (North Pennsylvania Ave) 1905-1910
Lion Brewing Co. 1910-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-355 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
The Lion, Inc. 1933-Present
aka: Gibbons Brewery, Inc. 1943-1974
aka: Stegmaier Brewery 1974-Present
aka: Pocono Brewing Co. 1973-Present
aka: Las Islas Brewing Co. 1973-Present
aka: Gibbons Brewing Co. 1973-Present
aka: Stegmaier Brewing Co. 1973-Present
aka: Bartels Brewing Co. 1973-Present
aka: Cerveceria Goya Co. 1973-Present
aka: Cerveceria Sabor Co. 1973-Present
aka: Malta Goya Co. 1973-Present
aka: Calvin Cooler Co. 1973-Present
aka: Malta India Co. 1973-Present
aka: Malta Las Islas Co. 1973-Present
aka: Miavana Co. 1973-Present
aka: La Perferida 1973-Present
aka: Unica Trading Co. 1973-Present
aka: Brewery Hill Brewing Co. 1994-Present
BUA: Red Bell Brg Co. 1994-Present
aka: Golden Beverage Co. 1994-Present
aka: Jersey Lager Beer Co. 1994-Present
aka: Hope Brewing Co. 1994-Present
aka: Connecticut Brewing Co. 1994-Present
aka: Stoudt Brewing Co. 1994-Present
aka: JLBC 1994-Present
aka: Bunkerhill Brewing Co. 1994-Present
aka: Red Baron Beer Co. 1994-Present
aka: The Cape Fear Brewing Co. 1994-Present
aka: Blue Hen Brewery Ltd. 1994-Present
aka: Atlantic City Brewing Co. 1994-Present
aka: Armstrong Brewing Co. 1994-Present
aka: British Brewing Co. 1994-Present

Lion Beer 1933 - 1938
Gibbons Ale 1934 - 1972
Gibbons Porter 1934 - 1980
Gibbons Bock 1934 - 1980
Gibbons Beer 1934 - Present
Gibbons Half & Half 1937 - 1943
Old German Beer 1937 - 1945
Bartels Beer 1968 - Present
Bohio Malta 1973 - 1985
Lionshead Beer 1973 - 1985
Economy Corner Beer 1974 - 1980
Giant Food Beer 1974 - 1980
Stegmaier Beer 1974 - Present
Liebotschaner Ale 1975 - 1990
Hope Lager Beer 1994 - Present

Mauch Chunk Brewing Company, Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe), founded in 1875 as the Glanz & Kuelber Brewery, closed in 1941
Trade Names for the brewery at 20/22 North 2nd Street, Mauch Chunk, PA:
Glanz & Kuebler Brewery (2nd & North Streets) circa 1875-1879
P. & P. Schweibinz (Paul & Pius) 1879-1882
Pius Schweibinz 1882-1813
Ortlieb Brewing Co. 1913-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-383 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Sterling Brewing Co., Inc. 1933-1935
Mauch Chunk Brewing Co. 1935-1941
aka: Frey Bros. (John O. & Monroe W.) 1935-1941
aka: Frey's 1935-1941
Closed in 1941

Frey's Bock 1933 - 1941
Frey's Porter 1933 - 1941
Frey's Beer 1933 - 1941

Pilsener Brewing Company, Hazleton (1905 - 1954)
Trade Names for the brewery at North Cedar Street & East Diamond Avenue, Hazleton, PA:
Pilsner Brewing Co. (Seybert Street & Diamond Avenue) 1905-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-340 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Pilsner Brewing Co. 1933-1954
Closed in 1954

Hazle Ale 1933 - 1950
Hazleton Pilsener Beer 1933 - 1950
Hazleton Porter 1933 - 1950
Pilsener Porter 1934 - 1936
Pilsen Heim Beer 1934 - 1940
Hazleton Bock 1934 - 1949

Pittston Brewing Corporation, Pittston, founded in 1873 as Peter Daily, closed in 1948
Trade Names for the brewery at 4/14 Esther & 5/15 New Streets, Pittston, PA:
Peter Daily 1873-1875
Armene Burschell 1875-1878
H. R. Hughes & Co. 1878-1884
H. R. Hughes 1884-1887
Estate of H. R. Hughes 1887-1896
Pennsylvania Central Brewing Co. of Scranton, Hughes Ale Brewery Dept. 1896-1906
Jos. H. Glennon's Brewery (North Main between New & Ester Sts) 1907-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-347 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Liberty Brewing Corp. 1933-1934
Pittston Brewing Corp.1934-1942
Yankee Brewing Co. 1942-1946
Champ Brewing Co. 1946-1948
Closed in 1972

Glennon's Ale 1934 - 1942
Glennon's Bock 1934 - 1942
Glennon's Beer 1934 - 1942
Old Mule Ale 1934 - 1942
Dutch Maid Beer 1942 - 1943

E. Robinson's Sons, Scranton, founded in 1862 as Jacob obinson, closed in 1933
Trade Names for the brewery at 434/455 North 7th Street, Scranton, PA:
Jacob Robinson (Cedar Street) 1862-1867
Jacob Robinson (Linden St & North 7th St) 1875-1876
Elizabeth Robinson 1876-1890
E. Robinson's Sons 1890-1897
Pennsylvania Central Brewing Co. of Scranton, E. Robinson's Sons Dept. 1897-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-327 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
E. Robinson's Sons (Non-Producing) 1933-1933
Closed in 1933

Robinson's Sons Beer 1933 - 1934

Standard Brewing Company, Scranton (1904 - 1954)
Trade Names for the brewery at Penn Ave & Walnut St, Scranton, PA:
Standard Brewing Co. 1904-1920
aka: Standard Brewery 1904-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-341 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Standard Brewing Co. of Scranton 1933-1953
Standard Industries, Inc. 1953-1954
Closed in 1954

Easter Brew 1934 - 1936
Crystal Ale 1934 - 1949
Standard Bock 1934 - 1950
Standard Ale 1934 - 1952
Standard Beer 1934 - 1952
Tru Age Beer 1934 - 1952
Standard Porter 1935 - 1948
Cardinal Beer 1947 - 1952
Jackson Beer 1950 - 1951
Casey's Beer 1950 - 1952
Golden Brau Beer 1950 - 1952

Stegmaier Brewing Company, Wilkes-Barre, opened in 1857 as the Baer & Stegmaier Brewery, closed in October, 1974. Stegmaier beer is still being produced by the Lion Brewery, Inc.
Trade Names for the brewery at 152 Market & Baltimore Streets, Wilkes-Barre, PA:
(George C.) Baer & (Charles) Stegmaier (South Canal St) 1857-1863
Baer & Stegmaier (East Market St) 1863-1873
C. Stegmaier & Son (230/246 East Market St) 1880-1897
Stegmaier Brewing Co. 1897-1920
Brewery operations shut down by National Prohibition in 1920-1933
Issued U-Permit No. PA-U-342 allowing the resumption of brewing operations 1933
Stegmaier Brewing Co. 1933-1974
aka: Gold Medal Brewing Co. 1933-1974
aka: Northeast Brg. Co. 1933-1974
Closed in 1974

Gold Medal Beer 1933 - 1952
Stegmaier's Ale 1933 - 1955
Stegmaier's Bock 1933 - 1974
Stegmaier's Porter 1933 - 1974
Stegmaier's Beer 1933 - 1974
Tucher Beer 1948 - 1952
Little Steg Beer 1957 - 1964
Liebotschaner Beer 1966 - 1974
Liebotschaner Bock 1972 - 1974