Ipswich Brewing
"Closed"
23 Hayward Street
Ipswich MA 01938
Phone: 508-356-3329
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Ipswich Brewing"Closed"23 Hayward Street Ipswich MA 01938 Phone: 508-356-3329 |
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Massachusetts Breweries History: Ipswich Brewing
Ipswich Brewing was opened in 1992 by Paul Sylva and Jim Beauvais. The Ipswich Brewing Company was purchased by Rob Martin, one of its employees, in September 1999. Martin renamed the brewery to the Mercury Brewing Company and has actively sought to diversify Mercury's beers in an effort to make the operation succeed in a more competitive craft-beer marketplace. Ipswich Ale is still produced at the former Ipswich Brewing Company but now is just one beer in a long and varied line of contract-brewed products turned out by Mercury Brewing Company. In addition to Ipswich, Mercury brews three main product lines, under the Dornbusch, Stone Cat and Space Coast labels, as well as private-label beers for restaurants and pubs. Dornbusch Gold and Alt are the most interesting beers in the Mercury stable. They were created by native German brewer Horst Dornbusch, an Essex resident, and were contract-brewed by Ipswich and New Hampshire's Smuttynose Brewing Co. for several years in the mid- 1990s. When Dornbusch looked recently to reintroduce his products, he turned to Mercury. Ipswich Ale remains Mercury's best-known product. It is contract-brewed, as the Ipswich line of beers was purchased in early 1999 by U.S. Beverage, a Chicago-based beer- marketing firm. Mercury brews all of the Ipswich-label growler products, as well as kegs and 12-ounce bottles of Ipswich stout, dark ale and porter. The other 12-ounce "shelf-stable" (i.e., filtered) Ipswich products - pale ale, India pale ale and extra special bitter - are brewed by Clipper City Brewing Co. in Delaware. |
