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Reno Brewing Company Wooden Box (99173)

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Reno Brewing Company Wooden Box  (99173)
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This one hundred year old box would have held quarts with paper labels. Writing is carved into box (RENO BR'G CO / RENO / NEV). '1918' is stamped on box. It is a hundred years old, but actually in nice condition. “Reno need no longer send east for lager,” rejoiced one of the local papers upon the opening of the Reno Brewing Company in 1903. Located on the corner of E. 4th and Spokane Streets, the new company joined a number of existing breweries in Reno including the Buffalo Brewing Company, Riter’s Elite Steam Beer, and the Wieland Brewing Company. The new business was founded by a trio of men in their thirties. Master brewer Jacob Hook had immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1886, while John Maurer and Peter Dohr were second-generation Germans originally from Wisconsin who moved to Reno from Montana. Their raw materials–corn, malt, and hops–were brought into town by rail, and an electricity-powered ice plant on the premises chilled the barrels in a vast refrigerator room. By 1907 the successful company boasted a new five-story brick “annex” [Iconic metal sign form here] and produced three varieties of beer: Sierra Beer, Malt Rose, and Royal Lager. It was soon the largest brewery in the state, shipping its product from the nearby railroad tracks and delivering locally in the company’s signature trucks.

Date: 1918
City/County: Reno
State: Nevada