Volcano Brewery
Volcano, California, USA
Tally's Take
Why this matters
California Pass 187. The United States brewers list for years ending May 1878 and May 1879 records George Griesbach as a brewer in Volcano, with 40 and 28 barrels sold respectively. The exact brewery trade name, founding year, site and closure chronology remain unresolved, so the canonical display name is a location-based historical label.
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Brewery record taken from Tally's California master, Pass 187, which cited https://archive.org/stream/beeritshistoryi00sale/beeritshistoryi00sale_djvu.txt 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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