H. Mueller & Bro.
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Tally's Take
Why this matters
California Pass 187. A contemporary national brewer list published in 1880 records 'Mueller, H. & Bro.' under Santa Barbara with 110 barrels sold in 1878 and 144 barrels in 1879, directly proving commercial beer production. Later Santa Barbara local-history reporting identifies brewer Herrmann Rudolph Muller and describes the Muller enterprise continuing in the city. Exact brewery trade name, site address, founding year, closure year and full family partnership chronology remain UNKNOWN rather than inferred.
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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 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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