City Brewing Company

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City Brewery
Location	La Crosse, WI United States
Year opened	1999
Active Beers
City Lager	Pale lager
City Light	Light beer
KÜL	Pale lager
KÜL Light	Light beer
LaCrosse Lager	Pale lager
LaCrosse Light	Pale lager
City Slicker Malt Liquor	Malt liquor
La Crosse NA	Non-alcoholic beer
City Cream Ale	Cream ale
City Festbier	Lager
City Pale Ale	Pale lager
City Winter Porter	Robust Porter

City Brewing Company is a large brewery located in La Crosse, Wisconsin. It also goes by the trade name of City Brewery.

The brewery was founded in 1999, and uses the buildings of the old G. Heileman Brewing Company. That brewing company, which previously had produced 17 million barrels annually, was sold to an Australian company, the Bond Corporation, before the company name and beer brands were eventually acquired by the Pabst Brewing Company in 1999. The La Crosse brewery was bought by a group of investors who founded the City Brewing Company.[1]

City Brewery is also the name of a company founded by Johann Braun in 1846 which merged in to the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company of Milwaukee.

In September of 2006, the company agreed to purchase the Latrobe Brewing Company in Latrobe, Pennsylvania[2].

Production is set to begin April, 2007.

City Brewery Latrobe has entered into an agreement with Samuel Adams (beer) (Boston Beer Co.) [3].

[edit] Other brands brewed by City Brewing

A number of other breweries and beverage companies contract out to City Brewing Company. Among the other brands:

• Arizona Tea
• Mike's Hard Lemonade
• Potosi Light
• Kronik Energy
• Smirnoff Ice

[edit] Sources

• Brewed with Style:The Story of the House of Heileman Paul Koeller and David H. Delano, 2004, published by the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Foundation and the City Brewing Company.

[edit] External links

• CityBrewery.com, official website
• Article on the brewery in Wisconsin Business Journal