Red Bluff Brewery
Red Bluff, California, USA
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Why this matters
California Pass 187. 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.
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Lager Beer
Year-RoundLager
California Pass 187. 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
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