It was the height of the Gold Rush and more than 300,000 entrepreneurial “49ers” had arrived in California in search of shiny flecks of fortune. It wasn’t until 1849, a year before California was officially an American state, that Californians embarked on their first ale-making endeavors with the Adam Schuppert Brewery opening its doors on the corner of Stockton and Jackson streets in San Francisco.ġ849 was a very good time to open a brewery. It may have begun brewing a lot later than other states but, given its influence on the contemporary craft brewing scene, it has more than made up for lost time and currently boasts some of the nation’s most innovative breweries and beers.Ĭalifornia began brewing nearly 250 years after America’s first brewery was formed in Manhattan in 1612. The state of California’s influence on American beer culture cannot be underestimated.
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