Rainier Brewing Company of San Francisco, California, USA

Dates	Trade Name	Historic Address
1916 - 1920	Rainier Brewing Co.	1550 Bryant Avenue
1916 - 1920	Rainier Products Co. (Aka of Rainier Brewing ...	1550 Bryant Avenue
1920 - 1933	Rainier Brewing Company	1550 Bryant Avenue
1925 - 1939	Tacoma Brewing Company (Aka of Rainier Brewin...	1550 Bryant Avenue
1929 - 1933	Pacific Products, Inc. (Aka of Rainier Brewin...	1550 Bryant Avenue
1933 - 1951	Rainier Brewing Company	1550 Bryant Avenue
1953 - 1973	Theo. Hamm Brewing Co.	1550 Bryant Avenue
1969 - 1973	Burgermeister Brewing Co. (Aka of Theo. Hamm ...	1550 Bryant Avenue
1969 - 1973	Burgie Brewing Co. (Aka of Theo. Hamm Brewing...	1550 Bryant Avenue
1973 - 1975	Brewer's Unlimited, Inc.	1550 Bryant Avenue
1973 - 1975	Buckhorn Brewing Co. (Aka of Theodore Hamm B...	1550 Bryant Avenue

The Fate of the Brewery building is unknown
U-Permit Number : CAL-U-1101
L-permit Number : L-19

Timeline

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Circa: 1910

Circa: 1916

1916 FoundedRainier Products Co. (Aka of Rainier Brewing Co.)1550 Bryant Avenue

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Rainier Cereal Beverage
1916-1920

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Circa: 1916

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Circa: 1916

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Circa: 1916

Circa: 1917

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Export Beer
1892-1902

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Circa: 1918

Circa: 1920

1920 Rainier Brewing Company1550 Bryant Avenue

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Rainier Lager Brew
1920-1933

1925 Tacoma Brewing Company (Aka of Rainier Brewing Co.)1550 Bryant Avenue

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Malt Rainier
1925-1933

Old German Lager
1925-1939

Rainier Lager Brew
1925-1933

Rainier Old German Lager
1925-1933

Rainier Special Beer
1925-1939

Tacoma 3 Star Ale
1933-1939

Tacoma Beer
1925-1939

Tacoma Bock Beer
1925-1939

Tacoma Brew
1925-1933

Tacoma Pale Beer
1925-1939

Circa: 1929

1929 Pacific Products, Inc. (Aka of Rainier Brewing Co.)1550 Bryant Avenue

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Burton Pale
1929-1933

Paciffic Export Beverage
1929-1933

Paciffic Extra Pale Beverage
1929-1933

Rainier Lime Rickey
1929-1933

Rainier Mineral Water
1929-1933

Circa: 1931

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Export Beer
1892-1902

Circa: 1933

1933 Rainier Brewing Company1550 Bryant Avenue

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Ace Hi Beer
1933-1936

BB Special Export Beer
1938-1947

Brown Derby Ale
1942-1944

Brown Derby Pilsner Beer
1942-1950

Extra Export Stout
1936-1942

Full Value Pale Beer
1933-1936

Glory B Beer
1936-1942

Gold Medal Beer
1933-1936

Hemrichs Beer
1934-1938

Kings Taste Beer
1938-1945

Krug Beer
1935-1946

Leidig's De Luxe Beer
1933-1936

Lifestaff Beer
1936-1943

Lisco Lager Beer
1936- 1942

Old German Style Lager Beer
1933-1936

Old Mission Steam Beer
1933-1936

Old Vienna Style Beer
1933-1951

Original Old German Style Beer
1933-1936

Pacific Beer
1940-1946

Piedmont Lager Beer
1933-1936

Pilsen Brau Beer
1935-1942

Rainier Ale
1934-1953

Rainier Half & Half
1933-1953

Rainier Beer
1933-1953

Rainier Bock
1933-1953

Rainier Club Beer
1933-1947

Rainier Old Stock Ale
1933-1949

Rainier Pale Ale
1933-1952

Rainier Special Beer
1933-1947

Rainier Stout
1933-1953

Royal Lager Beer
1935-1936

Salute Beer
1937-1945

Schwartz und Weiss Lager Beer
1933-1935

Shorty Roberts Beer
1941-1945

Shorty Roberts' Tally Ho Beer
1935-1937

Tacoma Ale
1940-1948

Tacoma Beer
1940-1948

Tacoma Three Star Ale
1933-1951

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Begin: 1933 End 1940

1933 - 1940

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Begin: 1933 End 1940

1933 - 1940

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Begin: 1933 End 1951

1933 - 1951

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Begin: 1934 End 1940

1934 - 1940

Begin: 1936 End 1940

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Export Beer
1892-1902

1937Capacity 600000 Barrels

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Circa: 1938

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Circa: 1938

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Circa: 1938

1939Capacity 600000 Barrels

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Circa: 1939

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Circa: 1939

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Circa: 1940

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Circa: 1940

Circa: 1948

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Export Beer
1892-1902

1953 Theo. Hamm Brewing Co.1550 Bryant Avenue

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Hamm's Beer
1957-1965

Hamm's Draft
1960-1965

Hamm's Preferred Beer
1953-1957

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Circa: 1958

1969 Burgie Brewing Co. (Aka of Theo. Hamm Brewing Co.)1550 Bryant Avenue

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Circa: 1970

1973 Buckhorn Brewing Co. (Aka of Theodore Hamm Brewing Co.)1550 Bryant Avenue

Circa: 1974

Products

Export Beer
1892-1902

1975 ClosedBrewer's Unlimited, Inc.

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Rainier Brewing Company of San Francisco, California, USA

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Circa: 1910

A Tacoma Brewery tied house.

Circa: 1916

Circa: 1916

Circa: 1916

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Circa: 1916

Beach-goers atop a rock painted with a Rainier Beer advertisement.

Circa: 1916

A grainy factory scene vignette from a 1916 newspaper ad.

Circa: 1916

M. Logue's tavern in San Francisco featured a stained glass window for Jackson's Steam Beer and a painted billboard for Rainier Beer.

Circa: 1917

Circa: 1917

Circa: 1917

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Circa: 1918

Deliveryman and his ladies pose in front of a delivery truck advertising Tacoma, Rainier and Fredericksburg Beers.

Circa: 1920

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Circa: 1933

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Circa: 1938

A distributor shows off dozens of cases of Rainier Ale, Lucky Lager, and Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer.

Circa: 1938

Three guys enjoy Rainier Beer in cone top cans shirtless.

Circa: 1938

Rainier Beer cone top cans.

Circa: 1939

The Rainier Brewery as it looked in 1939.

Circa: 1939

Picnickers drinking Rainier Club Beer in longneck bottles.

Circa: 1940

Spontaneous chorus line inspired by Rainier Beer.

Circa: 1940

A baby enjoys playing with Rainier Club cone top beer cans.

Circa: 1948

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Circa: 1958

The large lighted sign atop the Hamm's brewery.

Circa: 1970

The Burgermeister Beer ceramic bottle is released.

Circa: 1974

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