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NARRAGANSETT BREWING COMPANY

Providence, Rhode Island, USA

ActiveOwnership unknown
Founded
1890
Archive ID
TB-438YHM4D
Last checked
2026-09-03

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From the record

Summary

Rhode Island hometown beer since 1890, brewing at 271 Tockwotton Street, Providence, in an 18,000 sq ft brewery with taproom on the India Point Park waterfront. First-party evidence: after more than 40 years away, brewing returned to Rhode Island in 2021, and the Providence brewery produces roughly 2,500 barrels of small-batch beer a year. THE PREVIOUS RECORD FILED THIS BREWERY IN ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, because it was built from a New York State Liquor Authority Brewer licence in Monroe County and nothing else. That licence is real and is retained as evidence in this note - Narragansett was produced outside Rhode Island during the four decades it was away - but a contract or out-of-state production licence is not the brewery, and treating it as one filed the most famous beer in Rhode Island under another state. The Cranston plant is held separately as a closed production site. TO VERIFY: the dates the Rochester arrangement began and ended, and whether any production remains outside Providence.

A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.

Where it brewed

  1. 271 Tockwotton Street, Providence, RI 029032021
    Providence, Rhode Island

    BREWERY / TAPROOM

    Operated by Narragansett Brewing Company

    Site detail

    18,000 sq ft brewery and taproom on the India Point Park waterfront. Brewing returned to Rhode Island here in 2021 after more than 40 years away. Roughly 2,500 barrels a year.

Where it is

43.16477, -77.61411

From the licensing regulator's record of the premises

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The People

Behind the beer

Mark Hellendrung
President / investor leader

Led investor group repurchase in 2005.

John H. Fehlberg
Founder

Augustus F. Borchandt
Founder

Herman G. Possner
Founder

George M. Gerhard
Founder

Constand A. Moeller
Founder

Jacob Wirth
Founder

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Beers

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Bermuda Pils

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Address445 ST PAUL ST
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