Buffalo Brewing Company (Sacramento)
Sacramento, California, USA
Tally's Take
Why this matters
The Sacramento History Museum calls Buffalo one of the giants of Sacramento brewing, with Frank Ruhstaller and Herman Grau as its central figures. And that is the whole of what this archive can state with confidence — neither the opening nor the closing chronology is established, so both are held as unknown. A brewery can be locally famous and still leave a record with no dates in it.
The Beer Library
Beers
Edelbrau
Year-RoundBeer / exact style unknown
California Pass 187. Aliases: Buffalo's New Brand Edelbrau. 1894 Marysville Daily Appeal advertisement explicitly identifies Buffalo's new brand as Edelbrau.
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Year-RoundBohemian-style lager / exact historic style uncertain
California Pass 187. Aliases: Buffalo Bohemia. Primary Marysville advertisements identify Buffalo Brewing Co.'s New Brew Bohemian; 1912 advertising also references Buffalo Bohemia.
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's California master, Pass 187, which cited https://sachistorymuseum.org/exhibits-liquid-gold/ for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's California master, Pass 187 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026
CommercialMedium reliabilityAccessed 2026-08-19Reviewed 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.
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