Archive record · Brewery
Catamount Brewing Company
White River Junction / Windsor, Vermont, USA
- Founded
- 1984
- Closed
- 2000
- Archive ID
- TB-1QS3TDKK
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
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From the record
Summary
Closed April 2000; Windsor site acquired by Mass. Bay/Harpoon. [USA Pass 07]
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
The People
Behind the beer
Catamount founder.
Catamount founder.
Catamount founder.
The Beer Library
Beers
Catamount Gold
RetiredBlond/Golden Ale
1989 GABF Gold. (Historical / occasional revival) [USA Pass 07]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Ethan Allen Ale
Year-RoundAle — exact historical style UNKNOWN
Vermont Historical Society preserves a six-pack specially brewed by Catamount for Vermont's 1991 bicentennial. (1991 Vermont Bicentennial) [Vermont Pass 10]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Catamount Octoberfest
Year-RoundOctoberfest / exact formulation UNKNOWN
VHS accession 2022.14.1 preserves a circa-1995 Catamount Octoberfest bottle label. (circa 1995) [Vermont Pass 10]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Catamount Pale Ale
Year-RoundPale Ale
VHS accession 2022.14.2 preserves a circa-1995 Catamount Pale Ale bottle label. (circa 1995) [Vermont Pass 10]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Catamount Porter
Year-RoundPorter
VHS accession 2022.14.4 preserves a circa-1995 Catamount Porter bottle label. (circa 1995) [Vermont Pass 10]
Drank this? Add it to your passport →On the record
Awards
- 1989
Gold — Blond/Golden Ales — Catamount Gold
Great American Beer Festival
Only awards we could attribute to a named body and year appear here. An empty section means unresearched, not unawarded.
Surviving objects
4 objects catalogued here so far, held by Vermont Historical Society. That is what the archive has recorded, not the extent of what the holder keeps — follow each link for the institution's own finding aid or catalogue. The archive links to each record rather than reproducing its photograph; the images belong to the holding institution and are licensed object by object.
Bottle
- Accession
- 1987.6.1a
Beer six-pack / packaging
- Accession
- 1992.28.3
Beer packaging
- Accession
- 1987.6.1b
- Catamount beer bottle-label groupcirca 1995
Beer labels
- Accession
- 2022.14.1–2022.14.4
Straight answers
Common questions about Catamount Brewing Company
- Is Catamount Brewing Company still open?
- No. Catamount Brewing Company has closed (2000).
- When was Catamount Brewing Company founded?
- Catamount Brewing Company was founded in 1984 in White River Junction / Windsor, USA.
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