Alabama Brewing Company
Birmingham, Alabama, USA · Est. 1897
Tally's Take
Why this matters
Isadore Newman, Arthur Isnard and A. Cammack took over the site previously associated with Birmingham Brewing and Morris Adler & Co. in 1897, and ran it until prohibition ended alcoholic beer in the state in 1908. The detail worth keeping: a secondary historic record says the plant struck natural gas in 1899 and used it at the brewery. In a city built on iron and coal, a brewery running on its own gas is entirely in character.
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Timeline
- 1897Takes over the Birmingham Brewing site
Isadore Newman, Arthur Isnard and A. Cammack.
- 1899Strikes natural gas
A secondary historic record says the plant hit gas and used it at the brewery.
- 1908Closed by prohibition
The same year as Schillinger; state prohibition ends beer in Alabama.
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Beers
Ideal Bottled Beer
HISTORICALAlabama Pass 17. Product name survives on a pre-Prohibition Alabama Brewing Co. lithographic advertising tray whose rim reads Alabama Brewing Co., Birmingham / Ideal Bottled Beer. Style, ABV and release dates remain UNKNOWN.
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record compiled in Tally's Alabama master, Pass 17 — Blount and outer north-east reconciliation (research workbook), which cited https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Alabama_Brewing_Company for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's Alabama master, Pass 17 — Blount and outer north-east reconciliation (research workbook) · Compiled with ChatGPT web search under the Tally's workbook protocol · 2026-08
CommercialMedium reliabilityAccessed 2026-08-19Reviewed 2026-08-19 - historyProbable
Dated events as recorded in Alabama Pass 17: 1897, 1899, 1908.
Source not recorded — this claim needs one.
Reviewed 2026-08-19
Only the claims above are sourced. Everything else on this page is the archive's own research and has not yet been tied to a document — which is worth knowing rather than hiding.
Straight answers
Common questions about Alabama Brewing Company
- Is Alabama Brewing Company still open?
- No. Alabama Brewing Company has closed. Alabama Pass 17. Closed 1908. Jefferson County. Founder: Isadore Newman; Arthur Isnard; A. Cammack. Status as recorded: HISTORICAL/CLOSED. Took over the brewery site previously associated with Birmingham Brewing/Morris Adler & Co.; operated until local/state prohibition ended alcoholic-beer production. Secondary historic record says the plant hit natural gas in 1899 and used it at the brewery.
- When was Alabama Brewing Company founded?
- Alabama Brewing Company was founded in 1897 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
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