Brewery, also known as Bayview Brewery or simply as "The Brewery", now the headquarters of Tully's CoffeeĪfter Rainier Brewing Company resumed producing "Rainier Beer" after the end of Prohibition and its advertisements became ubiquitous in the Seattle-Tacoma area, a rumor began circulating that the brewery's owner, Emil Sick, had bribed a Washington state committee with free beer to name the local mountain " Rainier". The brewery went through several names, such as Sicks' Seattle Brewing and Malting and Sicks' Rainier Brewing Company, during the 1935–1977 period. Post-Prohibition relaunch įollowing the repeal of the Prohibition, the brewery was purchased by Lethbridge, Alberta brewers Fritz and Emil Sick, who then repurchased the Rainier brand and began brewing Rainier in 1935. The company survived prohibition by producing a variety of different nonalcoholic products. During this time they opened a brewery in San Francisco where they brewed Rainier beer until 1920 when the 18th amendment was ratified. Kopp and Hemrich produced Rainier beer in Washington until 1916, when the state of Washington enacted its own prohibition, 4 years before the 18th amendment enacted the nationwide prohibition.
In 1888, Rabbeson sold his brewery, along with the Rainier brand, to Kopp and Hemrich. Concurrently, John Kopp and Andrew Hemrich founded Seattle Brewing and Malting in 1883. They launched Rainier beer in 1878 and would produce and distribute Rainier for the next decade. In 1872, Rabbeson renamed his brewery Seattle Brewery. Rabbeson opened Washington Brewery, which was Seattle’s first commercial brewing company.
The original brewery dates all the way back to 1854 when A.B. 1912 Rainier ad in The Seattle Republican newspaper.