Archive record · Brewery
Sicks' Rainier Brewing Company
Seattle, USA
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Closed
- 1999
- Archive ID
- TB-PGK6M03W
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
Who owns this brewery?
Not yet mapped as a company, so the chain above it is still open.
From the record
Summary
3100 Airport Way South, Seattle. Emil Sick acquired the former Bay View operation and moved the main operation to this larger plant after acquiring the regional Rainier rights in 1935; the plant closed in 1999. The address is confirmed by a 1972 US Federal Register filing and a trademark record. FOUNDING YEAR UNKNOWN as a Sick operation - 1935 is when the Rainier rights were acquired, which is not the brewery's founding. NOT THE SAME as Rainier Brewing Co. of Canada Ltd. of Kamloops, which the archive already holds separately. [Sicks Pass 01]
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Where it brewed
- 3100 Airport Way South, Seattle, WA 98134until 1999Seattle, Washington
BREWERY
The building still stands — the complex survives
Operated by Sicks' Rainier Brewing Company
Site detail
Address confirmed by a 1972 US Federal Register filing and a trademark record. Beer was shipped from here into San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento and numerous other California markets, which is documentary evidence of the distribution network Galt describes. Predecessor at this site: Bay View brewery.
The People
Behind the beer
Expanded the network into Seattle, Montana, Washington and Oregon, acquiring the regional Rainier rights in 1935. By 1949 operated two hop farms, at Sunnyside Washington and Kamloops British Columbia. Agreed the roughly $27 million Molson purchase across 1958-59.
Straight answers
Common questions about Sicks' Rainier Brewing Company
- Who owns Sicks' Rainier Brewing Company?
- Sicks' Rainier Brewing Company is recorded as owned by Sick's Breweries Ltd., which does not yet have a full company profile in this archive.
- Is Sicks' Rainier Brewing Company still open?
- No. Sicks' Rainier Brewing Company has closed (1999).
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