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Empire Brewery

Visalia, California, California, USA

Also known as Empire Brewery — Visalia

ClosedOwnership unknownMicrobrewery
Founded
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Closed
Year unknown
Archive ID
TB-1GHPDV7K
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Summary

The contemporary 1880 national brewing survey lists two separate Visalia brewery entries: Mooney's Brewery, with 591 barrels sold in 1878 and 581 in 1879, and Empire Brewery, with 33 barrels sold in 1879. Because both are listed separately in the same city and reporting period, Empire Brewery is preserved as a distinct historical producer rather than an alias of Mooney's/ did not recover Empire Brewery's proprietor, exact site, opening/closure dates or named beer products, so those fields remain UNKNOWN.

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Surviving objects

1 object catalogued here so far, held by Moose Jaw Public Library Archives Department. 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.

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Sources

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    Brewery record taken from Tally's California master, Pass 187, which cited https://archive.org/stream/beeritshistoryi00sale/beeritshistoryi00sale_djvu.txt 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 reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19
    Claim last checked 2026-08-19

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