Archive record · Brewery
Red Bluff Brewery
Red Bluff, California, California, USA
Also known as Bofinger & Krauss Brewery, John Krauss Brewery (possible later phases)
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Closed
- Year unknown
- Archive ID
- TB-P6GN9KYB
- Last checked
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Summary
Primary-era newspaper evidence documents Red Bluff Brewery operating in 1861 under W. F. Bofinger and manufacturing lager beer. An 1867 Pacific directory again lists W. F. Bofinger at Red Bluff Brewery; an 1885 Tehama directory lists John Krauss as proprietor. Later museum material describes Bofinger & Krauss and John Krauss brewery phases, but exact legal continuity and closure chronology remain held.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
The Beer Library
Beers
Lager Beer
Year-RoundLager
Aliases: https://archive.org/stream/corob_000227/corob_000227_access_djvu.txt. Northern California directory advertisement identifies W. F. Bofinger's Red Bluff Brewery and 'Lager Beer, of the finest quality' in kegs and bottles.
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Brewery record taken from Tally's California master, Pass 187, which cited https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=RBB18610829.1.1 for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's California master, Pass 187 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026
CommercialMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19Claim last checked 2026-08-19
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