CCSI Cork Crowncap Database - Brewer/Bottler
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 Brewer/bottler #1137 | | | Name | Christian Heurich Brewing Company |
| | Address | 25th and Water Streets NW |
| | | State/Province | District of Columbia |
| | | | | | Extra info | The Christian Heurich Brewing Company was a Washington, D.C., brewery founded in 1872 and incorporated by Christian Heurich in 1890. First located near Dupont Circle, it expanded to a much larger site in Foggy Bottom in 1895 after a major fire. The new brewery was located along the Potomac River at 26th and D streets where the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts now stands. In the early days, the beer was bottled at the Arlington Bottling Co. As the brewery grew, Heurich added additional bottling facilities in Norfolk and Baltimore, as well as a bottling plant at his new state-of-the-art brewery that was constructed in Foggy Bottom in 1895. Heurich opened the Norfolk bottling branch c. 1897-1898 and continued to use the Norfolk branch for several years,The Heurich brewery was the largest in Washington's history, capable of producing 500,000 barrels of beer a year and 250 tons of ice daily.
The Christian Heurich Brewing Co. closed in 1956, "because of a decline in sales and because of the knowledge that the government would seek to acquire the site of the brewery for the approaches to the new Theodore Roosevelt Bridge." For five years, Arena Stage staged productions in the former brewery, which it nicknamed "The Old Vat." The brewery and all of its buildings were torn down in 1961. |
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