CCSI Cork Crowncap Database - Brewer/Bottler
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 Brewer/bottler #634 | | | Name | Monarch Brewing Company |
| | Address | 1834-36 North Main Street |
| | | State/Province | California |
| | | | | | Extra info | 1933-1941
The Mathie Brewing Company, centrally located at 1834-1850 East Main street was incorporated on October 14, 1903.
Excerpt from Tavern Trove:
Ferdinand A. Heim was born in East St. Louis, Illinois to a brewing family. When Heim was 22 years of age he went off to Los Angeles to study and lived in a house owned by his rich uncle, Ferdinand Heim Sr. the brewing magnate of Kansas City Missouri. In 1892 the younger Heim married, and started a large family. When the elder Heim died in 1895 his 26-year-old nephew took his inheritance and started a bottling business at 401 Ramirez. In 1901 he expanded his company to brewing, and moved to 1834-36 North Main Street. In 1903 he sold out to Los Angeles Brewing Co. Vice President Edward Mathie, who continued the firm as the Mathie Brewing Company. The business lasted until Prohibition, then reopened in 1933 as the Monarch Brewing Company. The brewery closed for good in 1940. Ferdinand A. Heim died a year later, on September 8, 1941, age 72 years.
The Balboa Brewing Company (later The Monarch Brewing Company in 1937) came to life in 1933 in a brick warehouse on Imperial Avenue in San Diego, California near the end of Prohibition by two very close friends named Baron Long (a well-connected hotel and nightclub owner) and Wayne Douglas McAllister (an architect and resort designer).
By 1934, the beer was such a success that a larger plant was constructed in Los Angeles, California. McAllister, as vice president of the brewery learned the beer making process from expert brewmasters in Mexico when he and Long had opened a lavish 655-acre resort in Tijuana, Mexico called "Aqua Caliente" in 1928. This resort became highly popular with the Hollywood crowd and others across the border for its horse racing, gambling, and of course legal alcohol. Wayne (at the age of 19) and his wife Corinne (also an architect) won the commission to design the $10 million resort which became an instant success until it was shut down and taken over by the Mexican government in 1935.
McAllister would later go on to design many fabulous circular drive-in restaurants in Los Angeles and several well-known hotels in Las Vegas including the Flamingo and Sands hotels. The Balboa Brewery located at 1810-1848 North Main Street in Los Angeles was so popular in Southern California that McAllister had three manned shifts running twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week creating 108,000 barrels of beer a year. It would eventually go out of business in 1942 and its assets put up for sale by its new owner.
Excerpt from Tavern Trove:
San Diego:
1933 - 1933 Ritz Brewing Co. 808 Imperial Boulevard (Entire block between 8th & 9th)
1933 - 1934 Balboa Brewing Co. 808 Imperial Boulevard (Entire block between 8th & 9th)
Los Angeles:
1901 - 1903 Ferd. Heim Brewing Co. 1834-36 North Main Street
1903 - 1920 Mathie Brewing Co. 1834-36 North Main Street
1933 - 1937 Chief Brewing Co. (Aka Monarch Brewing Co.) 1834-36 North Main Street
1933 - 1937 Balboa Brewing Company (Aka of Monarch Brewin... 1834-36 North Main Street
1933 - 1941 Monarch Brewing Company 1834-36 North Main Street |
| | | | | | | Other names used for this Brewer/bottler | | Name 1 | Mathie Brewing Co. |
| | Extra info | 1903-1920; 1933 |
| | Name 2 | Balboa Brewing Company |
| | Extra info | San Diego and Los Angeles
AKA: 1933-1937 |
| | | Extra info | AKA: 1933-1937 |
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