New Albany Brewery, ca. 1890

ID: 1046 ~ Source: New Albany-Floyd County Public Library ~ Date: 1890

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Before Prohibition, New Albany was home to several large breweries. Shown here is the New Albany Brewery at Main and 18th streets.
Image courtesy of New Albany-Floyd County Public Library Digital Collections.

This file appears in: Paul Reising Brewery

Paul Reising Brewery

By John Slack, Mary K. Marlatt, Benjamin Gies, and Ellis Cassity

Brewing played a significant role in the commercial landscape of New Albany for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The arrival of large numbers of German immigrants during the 1840s and 1850s created strong demand for beverages enjoyed…