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Southside Cellar Brewing Company

Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama, USA

Closed · 1999Ownership unknownMicrobrewery
Founded
Not recorded
Closed
1999
Archive ID
TB-MYSNMZ8K
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Summary

Closed 1999. Jefferson County. Status as recorded: Historical/closed. Production brewery associated with 2008 Magnolia Avenue / Five Points South. A contemporaneous 2000 Birmingham News report says Southside sold beer through distributors to as many as 25 restaurants and produced its last beer in June 1999. John Kater was brewmaster. Exact opening date and complete beer catalogue remain held.

A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.

Tally’s Take

A production brewery at 2008 Magnolia Avenue in Five Points South, with John Kater as brewmaster, selling through distributors to as many as twenty-five restaurants. A contemporaneous Birmingham News report from 2000 says it produced its last beer in June 1999. The opening date and the complete beer list are held as unknown — this archive knows in more detail how this brewery ended than how it began, which is common and almost never admitted.

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Timeline

  1. 1999
    Last beer produced

    June 1999, per a 2000 Birmingham News report. The opening date is not established.

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Sources

  1. recordProbable

    Brewery record compiled in Tally's Alabama master, Pass 17 — Blount and outer north-east reconciliation (research workbook), which cited https://groups.google.com/g/rec.food.drink.beer/c/8ERCkXYj774 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 reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19
    Claim last checked 2026-08-19
  2. historyProbable

    Dated events as recorded in Alabama Pass 17: 1999.

    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 reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19
    Claim last checked 2026-08-19

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