Question for MORBIOUS_FOD

crozet86 · Jan 10, 2011

I have been researching about the Virginia Brewing Co. Roanoke,Va. The question i have is they were founded in 1889 and sold various products and even sodas,do you know what brand or brands they sold? If you have any information on this and the possible time lines i would appreciate it.

morbious_fod · Jan 10, 2011

It is outside my area and specialization, but if you check ebay I think I saw a label or two floating around there at one point recently. I know that they were around for quite a while. Try google books.

celerycola · Jan 10, 2011

RE: Virginia Brewing Roanoke

1907

no mention of soda

celerycola · Jan 10, 2011

RE: Virginia Brewing Roanoke

1912

no mention of soda

celerycola · Jan 10, 2011

RE: Virginia Brewing Roanoke

1936

no mention of soda

madman · Jan 10, 2011

RE: Virginia Brewing Roanoke

heres my 2cents i do know they bottled soda or near beer ive seen the classic 6oz bottle embossed same as the beer

Alaska · Mar 13, 2011

RE: Virginia Brewing Roanoke

i've got a roanoke malt. looks like a duffy's, im not sure if it was by the virginia brewing co. though. its embossed as from roanoke though.

cowseatmaize · Mar 13, 2011

RE: Virginia Brewing Roanoke

The only site I can find saying they did soda is a can collector site. I didn't see anything else to state that.
Many companies that made alcohol converted to soda or made cereal beverage during prohibition but even that site said they closed and sold the machinery for scrap for the war. That in itself isn't very patriotic and I can't vouch for it's validity but sounds incorrect. High prices for scrap seams odd to me during wartime.
I guess you'd have to get the "Sources Used" books and check their info also. It may be just another case of "you can't believe everything you read". Maybe the other ventures were from after prohibition.

I saw this in a Google book
List of Proprietary Containers.
Filed and registered in the office of the Secretary of the Commomwealth for the year ending September 30. 1908.

March 31, 1908.â€”Virginia Brewing Company, Roanoke, Va. Bottles, boxes, syphons, crates, kegs, etc.

morbious_fod · Mar 13, 2011

RE: Virginia Brewing Roanoke

I found this article on the two brewing companies in Roanoke, VA. One, Robert Portner, was a branch plant from Alexandria, VA, while Virginia Brewing Company was brewed and bottled in Roanoke, VA. The article states that the Robert Portner branch bottled soda after the introduction of Prohibition in Virginia in 1916; however, doesn't specifically state that Virginia Brewing did; however, it does mention that the Brewery did attempt to make a comeback, but failed due to the owner's death and the resulting sale by his heirs.

I've never heard of Virginia Brewing bottling sodas; however, there are those 6oz bottles, so who knows?

http://thebeerroad.com/2011/01/30/no-monks-needed-a-look-back-at-roanokes-beer-and-brewing-history/

celerycola · Mar 13, 2011

RE: Virginia Brewing Roanoke

Portner Brewing Co. was bottling Celery=Cola and Ginger Ale at Alexandria, Richmond, and Danville by 1902.

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