Archive record · Brewery
Mobile Brewing Company
Mobile, Alabama, Alabama, USA
- Founded
- 1891
- Closed
- 1915
- Archive ID
- TB-7228KKTF
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
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Summary
Closed 1915. Mobile County. Status as recorded: Historical/closed. Formed in 1891 at North Water and Adams streets. A major mechanized brewery designed by August Maritzen; production stopped under prohibition, resumed after Mobile County voted wet in 1911, then stopped again with statewide prohibition in 1915. The corporate operation later survived in ice/cold-storage businesses.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Tally’s Take
A serious industrial brewery — designed by August Maritzen, the architect whose plants stood in brewing cities across America — at North Water and Adams streets from 1891. Its history is really the history of Alabama's drinking laws: production stopped under prohibition, resumed when Mobile County voted itself wet in 1911, and stopped for good when statewide prohibition arrived in 1915. The company outlived the beer by moving into ice and cold storage, which is what a brewery with refrigeration could still sell when it could not sell beer.
Ownership & corporate history
- Subsidiary of Mobile Brewery (New Jersey corporation) — exact 1911 identity UNCONFIRMEDDate unknown
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Lyons v. Webster proves the November 1902 parent transfer. FRASER quotation supplements list 'Mobile Brewery' in 1901, so the 1911 New Jersey assessment cannot be used as exact continuity without a charter/certificate identifier.
- Subsidiary of Mobile Brewery (New Jersey corporation) — charter/security identifiers still UNKNOWNDate unknown
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
The 1902 parent relationship is court-verified. The 1900/1901/1908 security quotations, 1903 near-name tax entry and 1911 same-name listing must remain distinct until jurisdiction, charter or security identifiers reconcile them.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Where it brewed
- North Water & Adams streets1891-1915 brewing; company later survivedMobile, Alabama
Industrial production brewery + bottling + ice/cold storage
Operated by Mobile Brewing Company
Site detail
Major mechanized brewery; beer production interrupted by prohibition and briefly resumed in 1911.
The Museum
Timeline
- 1891Formed at North Water and Adams
A major mechanized brewery designed by August Maritzen.
- 1911Mobile County votes wet
Production resumes after an earlier prohibition stoppage.
- 1915Statewide prohibition
Brewing ends; the corporate operation survives in ice and cold storage.
The People
Behind the beer
The Beer Library
Beers
Purity
HISTORICALOne of three labels advertised when Mobile Brewery resumed brewing after the 1911 county vote.
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HISTORICALOne of three labels advertised when Mobile Brewery resumed brewing after the 1911 county vote.
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HISTORICALExport Beer
One of three labels advertised when Mobile Brewery resumed brewing after the 1911 county vote; embossed Mobile Brewery export bottles also survive in collector records.
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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://mobilebaymag.com/ask-mcgehee-73/ 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
CommercialMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19Claim last checked 2026-08-19 - historyProbable
Dated events as recorded in Alabama Pass 17: 1891, 1911, 1915.
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
CommercialMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19Claim last checked 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 Mobile Brewing Company
- Who owns Mobile Brewing Company?
- Mobile Brewing Company is part of the Mobile Brewery (New Jersey corporation) — exact 1911 identity UNCONFIRMED group. The exact current direct legal owner has not been established in this archive. It is based in Mobile, Alabama, USA.
- Is Mobile Brewing Company still independent?
- No. Mobile Brewing Company is part of the Mobile Brewery (New Jersey corporation) — exact 1911 identity UNCONFIRMED group and is not independent, though its direct legal owner has not been established.
- Is Mobile Brewing Company still open?
- No. Mobile Brewing Company has closed (1915). Closed 1915. Mobile County. Status as recorded: Historical/closed. Formed in 1891 at North Water and Adams streets. A major mechanized brewery designed by August Maritzen; production stopped under prohibition, resumed after Mobile County voted wet in 1911, then stopped again with statewide prohibition in 1915. The corporate operation later survived in ice/cold-storage businesses.
- When was Mobile Brewing Company founded?
- Mobile Brewing Company was founded in 1891 in Mobile, Alabama, USA.
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