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Building History

This brewery took the place of the Hemrich and Kopp brewery in Seattle, WA. By 1888 at least, the new concern was known as the "Bay View Brewing Company." An advertisement in the Seattle City Directory of 1888 (p. 41) indicated that the Bay View Brewing Company had its depot at 313 Commercial Street (later 1st Avenue South) and its brewery at the corner of Grant Street and Winthrope Street. In 1893, Hemrich merged his Bay View Brewery with two others--the Albert Braun Brewing Company and the Claussen-Sweeney Brewing Company--to form the Seattle Brewing and Malting Company. Prohibition forced this brewery to close in 1916; at this time, the Rainier Beer brand was sold to a California brewer, which was not a dry state until 1920. Emil Sick used this plant after the repeal of Prohibition to brew Rainier Beer; Sick also later utilized the old Claussen and Sweeney Brewing Company facility in Georgetown to brew Rainier. The brewery was heavily remodeled and repainted by the Tully Coffee Company, c. 2005.

Alteration

Sick's Seattle Brewing and Malting Company, 3100 Airport Way, erected a warehouse on its property in 1947 costing $23,670. (See "$763,850 in Building O.K'd," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 05/08/1947, p. S12.)

PCAD id: 11650