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Bauernschmidt's brewery was named the American Brewery and was in operation by January 1900 at 1108 Hillen Street in Baltimore. [2] [3] Bauernschmidt competed with Maryland Brewing Company. His brother William would leave American Brewery and his brother John would leave his job at the competing brewery and join the American Brewery.
Breweries in Maryland produce a wide range of beers in different styles that are marketed locally, regionally, and nationally. In 2012 Maryland's 34 brewing establishments (including breweries, brewpubs, importers, and company-owned packagers and wholesalers) employed 320 people directly, and more than 20,000 others in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing. [1]
[29] [38] [39] One final legacy of the Fort was the Fort Marshall Brewing Company, established in 1869 and located near to the site of the fortifications, at Highland and Eastern avenues. It would operate until 1899, but established the southeast of Baltimore as a hub for German-American brewing operations, a trend which would continue a bit ...
Built in 1887 by John Frederick Wiessner, a German immigrant, for his Weissner Brewing Company, the Northeast Baltimore brewery was one of the largest breweries in the state of Maryland. At its peak, the brewery employed 61 workers: 16 in brewery work, 17 drivers, 14 in the bottling house, 8 garage men, and 6 office workers. [2]
National Bohemian Beer, colloquially Natty Boh, is an American lager [2] originating from Baltimore, Maryland. It was first brewed in 1885 by the National Brewing Company, but was eventually purchased by Pabst Brewing Company. Nearly 90 percent of National Bohemian sales are in Baltimore. [3]
By 1959, it was the second largest brewery in Baltimore, one of the major centers of brewing in America, when it produced 800,000 barrels per year and employed approximately 600 people. Hamm's Brewing Company bought the Gunther Brewing Company in 1960, and later became part of Miller Brewing Company.
In 1954 the company expanded outside Maryland by buying a controlling interest in the Altes Brewing Co. of Detroit. [11] By that time, National was brewing 1,000,000 barrels annually at its Baltimore plant - an increase from 300,000 barrels just seven years earlier - while the Altes acquisition added another 800,000 barrels of capacity.
The brewery was established in 1885 and was closely associated with Baltimore's strong German-American community. The brewery was famous for its National Bohemian brand (known in Baltimorese as Natty Boh ), also its National Premium Beer, Colt 45 malt liquor , and the introduction of the nation's first six-pack in the 1940s.