Port City Brewery
Mobile, Alabama, USA · Est. 1995
Tally's Take
Why this matters
The first of three breweries at 225 Dauphin Street, an address that kept a brewpub in it for fifteen years. A contemporaneous Birmingham News retrospective from 2000 gives 1995 as the opening; later secondary sources sometimes say 1993. The archive holds that conflict open rather than quietly settling it, because a date repeated confidently is exactly how a guess turns into a fact. All About Beer records the closure in 2001.
The Museum
Timeline
- 1995Opens at 225 Dauphin Street
Opening year disputed: a 2000 retrospective says 1995, later sources sometimes 1993.
- 2001Closed
Per All About Beer.
The Beer Library
Beers
Admiral Semmes' Stout
HISTORICALStout
Alabama Pass 17. Listed as a Port City Brewery, Mobile stout in a 1995 published stout reference; exact recipe/specs remain UNKNOWN.
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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://allaboutbeer.com/article/gone-but-not-forgotten/ 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 reliabilityAccessed 2026-08-19Reviewed 2026-08-19 - historyProbable
Dated events as recorded in Alabama Pass 17: 1995, 2001.
Source not recorded — this claim needs one.
Reviewed 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 Port City Brewery
- Is Port City Brewery still open?
- No. Port City Brewery has closed. Alabama Pass 17. Closed 2001. Mobile County. Status as recorded: HISTORICAL/CLOSED. Early post-1992 Alabama brewpub at 225 Dauphin Street. A contemporaneous 2000 Birmingham News retrospective gives 1995 as opening; later secondary sources sometimes give 1993. All About Beer says the brewpub closed in 2001. Opening-year conflict is held rather than silently harmonized.
- When was Port City Brewery founded?
- Port City Brewery was founded in 1995 in Mobile, Alabama, USA.
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