Grace Brothers Brewing Company
Santa Rosa, California, USA · Est. 1897
Tally's Take
Why this matters
California Pass 187. Sonoma County Library preserves Grace Bros. Brewing Company photographs by about 1905 and identifies the brewery at Second Street, owned by Frank P. and Joseph T. Grace. Contemporary Press Democrat reporting in January 1954 states that brewing operations at the Grace Bros. Second and Wilson Streets plant had been discontinued the previous January after more than half a century, supporting a 1953 brewing endpoint. A 2026 SFGATE historical feature, citing local brewery history, reports the Grace brothers purchased the Metzger Brewery in 1897 and renamed it Grace Bros. Brewing Company. The 1897 founding/acquisition year is therefore retained with explicit source qualification rather than treated as an unsourced primary date.
The Beer Library
Beers
Grace Brothers Bavarian Type Beer
Year-RoundBavarian-type beer / exact subtype unknown
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD19600624.1.20. A 1960 Press Democrat advertisement directly names 'Grace Brothers Bavarian Type Beer' and calls it the 'Beer of the Redwood Empire.' Because Santa Rosa brewing operations had ceased in 1953, this row preserves the documented Grace Brothers beer identity without claiming the 1960 package was brewed at the Santa Rosa plant.
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Sources
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Brewery record taken from Tally's California master, Pass 187, which cited https://digital.sonomalibrary.org/documents/detail/74756 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.
Straight answers
Common questions about Grace Brothers Brewing Company
- Who owns Grace Brothers Brewing Company?
- Grace Brothers Brewing Company is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Santa Rosa, California, USA.
- Is Grace Brothers Brewing Company independent?
- Yes. Grace Brothers Brewing Company is recorded as independent, with no parent company. Independence is recorded as the brewery states it; where a stake is a minority holding or joint venture, this archive leaves it unmapped rather than calling it ownership.
- Is Grace Brothers Brewing Company still open?
- No. Grace Brothers Brewing Company has closed. California Pass 187. Sonoma County Library preserves Grace Bros. Brewing Company photographs by about 1905 and identifies the brewery at Second Street, owned by Frank P. and Joseph T. Grace. Contemporary Press Democrat reporting in January 1954 states that brewing operations at the Grace Bros. Second and Wilson Streets plant had been discontinued the previous January after more than half a century, supporting a 1953 brewing endpoint. A 2026 SFGATE historical feature, citing local brewery history, reports the Grace brothers purchased the Metzger Brewery in 1897 and renamed it Grace Bros. Brewing Company. The 1897 founding/acquisition year is therefore retained with explicit source qualification rather than treated as an unsourced primary date.
- When was Grace Brothers Brewing Company founded?
- Grace Brothers Brewing Company was founded in 1897 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.
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