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Hartinger / Elkhorn Brewing lineage

Greenwood, British Columbia, Canada

Also known as Hartinger and Co. Brewing, Elkhorn Brewing Co., Elkhorn Brewery, Portmann Brothers' brewery

Closed · 1908Ownership unknownMicrobrewery
Founded
1898
Closed
1908
Archive ID
TB-CXNRPQCT
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From the record

Summary

SFU traces Hartinger 1898-1900 → Elkhorn Brewing 1900-08.

A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.

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The Museum

Timeline

  1. 1898
    Licensed 3 December 1898

    Frank Hartinger and Leutfried Portmann's brewery on the Elkhorn mineral claim outside Greenwood's limits received its inland revenue licence on 3 December 1898 and brewed the next week — a 20×44 brewhouse and a 34×36 cellar and ice-house, about fifteen barrels a day. Hartinger was gone by October 1899; the Portmann brothers, Leutfried and Anton, ran it to 1906 (Beautiful Greenwood, from the Boundary Creek Times).

  2. 1906
    Docksteader

    J. B. Docksteader owned it from 1906: "The quality of the product ranks with the best" (Boundary Creek Times, 31 May 1907).

  3. 1908
    Burned

    Destroyed by fire on 24 April 1908 — a $30,000 loss against $5,000 of insurance; the Phoenix Brewing Co. took its trade, and it did not reopen. Whether anything of the building survives: UNKNOWN. A Greenwood Museum photograph, 'Elkhorn Brewery with Portmann family' (1898), exists at arcabc.ca.

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Show your working

Sources

  1. recordProbable

    Brewery record taken from Tally's British Columbia master, Pass 57, which cited https://www.sfu.ca/archives/archives-program/research/bc-beer-history-archive/bc-beer-history-archive-resources/timeline-pre-prohibition.html for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.

    Tally's British Columbia master, Pass 57 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026

    CommercialMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19
    Claim last checked 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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Straight answers

Common questions about Hartinger / Elkhorn Brewing lineage

Is Hartinger / Elkhorn Brewing lineage still open?
No. Hartinger / Elkhorn Brewing lineage has closed (1908). SFU traces Hartinger 1898-1900 → Elkhorn Brewing 1900-08.
When was Hartinger / Elkhorn Brewing lineage founded?
Hartinger / Elkhorn Brewing lineage was founded in 1898 in Greenwood, Canada.
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