Archive record · Brewery
Illinois Brewery / Illinois Brewing Company
Socorro, New Mexico, USA
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Closed
- Year unknown
- Archive ID
- TB-A7V9S1TG
- Last checked
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Summary
Ownership as recorded: Historical ownership/corporate lineage preserved; no claim of current company continuity.. Primary historic-site anchor for Socorro beer history. | Pass 16 lifecycle audit: No brewing revival. Physical site survives as a museum/historical institution; site survival is not brewery reopening. [New Mexico Pass 19]
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Events
- Hammel Brothers business founded in Socorro; first brewery license taken in Nov. 1882.1882
Opening
- First stone brewery constructed on the Socorro site by 1886.1886
SITE_BUILD
- Business reorganized and incorporated as Illinois Brewing Company.1887
- Brewing operation shut during Prohibition and never reopened.1918
Closure
- Historic brewery building transferred to the Socorro County Historical Society and restored as a museum.1986
MUSEUM_PRESERVATION
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