Little Star Brewing Company
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Tally's Take
Why this matters
It bought the former Birmingham Brewing facility on Third Avenue around 1998 and ran it as a contract operation, producing Vulcan beer and acquiring the Mad Monk brands in spring 1999. By 2000 a Birmingham News report has it being sold, with production moving to South Carolina. That is the whole modern arc compressed into one record: a brewery becomes a facility, the facility becomes a contract line, the brands scatter, and the beer ends up being made in another state.
The Museum
Timeline
- 1998Buys the former Birmingham Brewing facility
About two years before the 2000 report; contract-produced Vulcan beer.
- 1999Acquires the Mad Monk brands
Spring 1999.
- 2000Sold; production leaves the state
Production moved to South Carolina.
The Beer Library
Beers
Mad Monk Pale Ale
HISTORICALPale Ale
Alabama Pass 17. Little Star acquired the Mad Monk brands in spring 1999 and brewed/distributed them from Birmingham before the 2000 sale.
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HISTORICALNut Brown Ale
Alabama Pass 17. Mad Monk brand brewed by Little Star after the 1999 brand acquisition.
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HISTORICALPilsner
Alabama Pass 17. Mad Monk brand brewed by Little Star after the 1999 brand acquisition.
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record compiled in Tally's Alabama master, Pass 17 — Blount and outer north-east reconciliation (research workbook), which cited https://groups.google.com/g/rec.food.drink.beer/c/8ERCkXYj774 for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's Alabama master, Pass 17 — Blount and outer north-east reconciliation (research workbook) · Compiled with ChatGPT web search under the Tally's workbook protocol · 2026-08
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Dated events as recorded in Alabama Pass 17: 1998, 1999, 2000.
Source not recorded — this claim needs one.
Reviewed 2026-08-19
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