Cincinnati Post-Prohibition Breweries
(Part II)
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The Hudepohl-Schoenling |
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Address: 1599 Central Parkway
Began Operation: 1986 (upon merger of Hudepohl and Schoenling breweries)
Brewery sold to Boston Beer Company (renamed Samuel Adams Brewery), 1996
Company sold to Snyder International Brewing Group, 1999
Primary Brands: Little Kings Cream Ale, Christian Moerlein Cincinnati Select Beer, Burger Beer, Hudy Delight Beer
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The Jackson |
(established circa 1829, pre-Prohibition George Weber Brewing Company)
Reopened after Prohibition: 1933
(Squibb-Pattison Breweries, Inc., 1933-34)
Closed: 1942
Primary Brands: Old Jackson Cincinnati Beer, Jackson Cream of Cincinnati Beer, '62 Pilsener Beer, Old German Brand Bohemian Style Beer
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The Red Top |
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(aka Wunderbrau Brewing Company, 1954-55)
Address: 1747 Central Avenue
Opened: 1863 (pre-Prohibition John Hauck Brewing Company)
Modern Origin: Red Top Malt Company, beginning in 1904
Purchased Clyffside Brewing Company for use as second plant, 1945
Closed: 1955
Primary Brands: Red Top Beer/Ale, Barbarossa Beer, Wunderbrau Beer
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The Schoenling |
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Opened: 1934
Merged with Hudepohl Brewing Company
(becoming Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing Company), 1986
Primary Brands: Schoenling Lager Beer, Little Kings Cream Ale, Top Hat Beer
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The Vienna |
Address: 312 Elliott & 322 Reading Streets
Opened: 1832 (Pierre Jonte & Friedrich Billiods Brewery
(pre-Prohibition Gambrinus Stock [Brewing] Company)
Reopened after Prohibition: 1933
Closed: 1940
Primary Brands: Vienna Style Lager Beer, Bohemian Type Lager Beer, White Cap Beer, Big/Little Dutchman Lager Beer
Labels from the collection of the author
Information on the listed brewery operations taken from the following sources:
Timothy J. Holian, Over the Barrel: The Brewing History and Beer Culture of Cincinnati, Volume Two, Prohibition to the Present (St. Joseph, MO: Sudhaus Press, 2001)
Dale P. Van Wieren, American Breweries II (West Point, PA: Eastern Coast Breweriana Association, 1995)
