It’s the nature of the brewing industry (and all business, for that matter): companies come and go, sometimes even if they experience considerable popularity. Then there are those extra-rugged breweries that seem to be able to withstand all kinds of rough weather—tough economic conditions, Prohibition, whatever. The following breweries (whose founding dates are shown in parenthesis) have been in existence since before Prohibition, and are still going strong:
Yuengling Brewery (1829)
Straub Brewery (1831)
Joseph Huber Brewery (1845)
Anheuser-Busch, Inc. (1852)
Miller Brewing Co. (1855)
Stevens Point Brewery (1857)
August Schell Brewing Co. (1860)
Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co. (1867)
Coors Brewing Co. (1873)
Genesee Brewery (1878, now DBA High Falls Brewing Co.)
Matt Brewing Co. (1888)
Latrobe Brewing Co. (1893)
Spoetzl Brewery (1909)
