Yakima Brewing at Beer Collections

Washington Breweries History: Yakima Brewing and Malting Company

Yakima Brewing which opened in 1982, was the first modern brewpub and second microbrewery to be opened in the United States since the pre-Prohibition era. Bert Grant's Brewery Pub is located in the old train station on historic north Front Street in Yakima. Bert Grant built a modem new brewery in Yakima in 1991 to increase capacity for his hoppy brand of ales. Bert Grant was annoyed by claims of other brewpubs that they were the first since Prohibition. "I, Bert Grant, did give birth to the first modem brewpub in America," he wrote on his Web site. "It was back in 1982, a Wednesday, as I remember. "So, please, if any of my imitators or an uninformed friend should make a foolhardy claim in conflict with the truth, do the noble thing. Buy them a Grant's and show them the error of their ways."

In 1995, Grant's was purchased by Chateau St. Michelle Winery, which is owned by Stimson Lane Vineyards, which is owned by UST, Inc., which also owns US Tobacco. After Bert Grant's death in 2001, the Yakima brewery was sold to Black Bear Brewing Company of Britsh Columbia Canada. Bert Grant was considered the "father" of craft brewing in the Pacific Northwest.

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