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Who Established the First Commercial Brewery in the Early West?

by | Jun 13, 2017 | Ask the Marshall, Departments

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Who established the first commercial brewery in the early West? Emilie Harris - La Quinta, California The first known brewery in the New World was established in 1612 in what is today’s Manhattan in New York. German David Yuengling started the oldest-operating brewery in the U.S. in 1829 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. An explosion of suds followed, in Wisconsin’s largest city, Milwaukee, during the 1840s. Best Brewing (Pabst) was the first, followed by Blatz, Schlitz and Miller. In 1860, a


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