Henry Narcoe (Hollister brewer)
Hollister, California, USA
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Why this matters
California Pass 187. The 1880 national brewing survey Beer, Its History and Its Economic Value as a National Beverage lists Henry Narcoe at Hollister among California brewers, with 300 barrels sold in 1878 and 366 barrels in 1879. This is direct measured production evidence for a distinct Hollister brewer decades before the later Wahl-era Hollister Brewery. Pass 112 keeps Narcoe as a separate proprietor-named historical production entity because no sale, address, trade-name or continuity evidence links him to the later Hollister Brewery. Exact opening, closure, site and product names remain UNKNOWN.
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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
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