Southside Cellar Brewing Company
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Tally's Take
Why this matters
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
- 1999Last beer produced
June 1999, per a 2000 Birmingham News report. The opening date is not established.
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Sources
- 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
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Dated events as recorded in Alabama Pass 17: 1999.
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Reviewed 2026-08-19
Only the claims above are sourced. Everything else on this page is the archive's own research and has not yet been tied to a document — which is worth knowing rather than hiding.
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