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Riverside Brewery
Riverside (Windsor), Ontario, Canada
Also known as Riverside Brewing Co., Riverside Brewing Company
- Founded
- 1926
- Closed
- 1935
- Archive ID
- TB-4B9Q3GVP
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
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Summary
A Prohibition-era brewery that lasted nine years; the building outlived it by eighty. Confidence C. Created INTERNAL 2026-09-24; not promoted.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
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Timeline
- 1926Built in Prohibition's shadow
"Founding Year: 1926 ... Designer: Albert McPhail ... Location: Riverside (east of LaSalle)" (International Metropolis). The Drive Magazine describes a Prohibition-era venture financed by Detroit's River Gang, without a year. Founders' names: UNKNOWN.
- 1934Taken through its banker; wound up
"the Windsor Riverside Brewery was acquired through the purchase of securities held by its banker. The brewery was immediately wound up, its sales picked up by Brewing Corporation's British American Company, located in Windsor" — 1934 in the Canadian Breweries account, after a 1934 appeal for new investors failed: "the investors didn't come".
- 1935Closed after nine years
"the brewery closed in 1935, after only 9 years in operation"; the shell was later used by the Essex Hybrid Seed Company and Webster Manufacturing.
- 2018Demolition
CBC Windsor reported the demolition of the historic Riverside Brewery building under way in 2018 (headline read; the article body was not). What stands there now: UNKNOWN.
The Beer Library
Beers
Riverside XXX Porter
RetiredPorter
(HISTORICAL / RETIRED) [Canada Pass 123]
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Common questions about Riverside Brewery
- Is Riverside Brewery still open?
- No. Riverside Brewery has closed (1935). A Prohibition-era brewery that lasted nine years; the building outlived it by eighty. Confidence C. Created INTERNAL 2026-09-24; not promoted.
- When was Riverside Brewery founded?
- Riverside Brewery was founded in 1926 in Riverside (Windsor), Canada.
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