Breweries & Brewing Companies

Before the 1980s, paper filters that contained asbestos were widely used at breweries to help filter impurities from alcohol. In some cases, these filters contained as much as 50% asbestos. In other cases, pure asbestos was also used to filter impurities from beer or wine.

Asbestos materials were also commonly used in the construction of buildings and structures found at breweries. These materials included asbestos cement, asbestos insulation, as well as other building materials with asbestos.

Because of the widespread presence of asbestos materials at breweries and brewing companies before the 1980s, brewers and other brewing company workers employed at these sites may have been regularly exposed to asbestos, putting them at risk of developing mesothelioma cancer, asbestosis, lung cancer, or other asbestos diseases.

Breweries & Brewing Companies With Asbestos 

The following is a list of breweries and brewing companies across the U.S. that may have been contaminated with asbestos:

• Acme Brewing Company (California)
• Adolph Coors Co. Brewery (Colorado)
• Akron Brewing Company (Ohio)
• Alewerks Brewery (Virginia)
• American Brewing Company (Indiana)
• Anchor Brewing Company (Pennsylvania)
• Anheuser Busch Brewery (California)
• Anheuser Busch Brewery (Florida)
• Anheuser-Busch Brewery (Georgia)
• Anheuser Busch Brewery (Michigan)
• Anheuser Busch  Brewery (Missouri)
• Anheuser Busch Brewery (Ohio)
• Anheuser Busch Brewery (Texas)
• Anheuser Busch Brewery (Virginia)
• Antillian Brewery (North Carolina)
• Arizona Brewing Company (Arizona)
• August Wagner Breweries, Inc. (Ohio)
• August Wagner Breweries, Inc. (Pennsylvania)
• Balboa Brewing Company (California)
• Ballantine Brewing Company (New Jersey)
• Barrett Brewing Company (Ohio) 
• Bartels Brewing Company (Pennsylvania) 
• Bartholomae and Leicht Brewing Company (Illinois)
• Bartholomae and Roesing Brewery (Illinois)
• Bavarian Brewing Company (Kentucky)
• Bemis and Mc Avoy Brewing Company (Illinois)
• Beverwyck Breweries (New York)
• Blatz Brewing Company (Wisconsin)
• Blitz Weinhard Brewery (Oregon)
• Bohemia Brewery (Illinois)
• Bosch Brewing Company (Michigan)
• Bruckman Brewery (Ohio)
• B Schade Brewing Company (Washington)
• Buckeye Brewing Company (Ohio) 
• Budweiser Brewery (California)
• Budweiser Brewery (Florida)
• Budweiser Brewery (New York)
• Budweiser Brewery (Ohio)
• Budweiser Brewery (New Hampshire)
• Budweiser Brewery (New Jersey)
• Budweiser Brewery (Texas)
• Buffalo Brewing Company (California)
• Burger Brewery (Ohio)
• Burgermeister Brewery (California)
• Burlington Brewing Company (Wisconsin) 
• Busch Brewery (Ohio)
• Cambridge Brewing Company (Ohio) 
• Carling Brewing Company (Georgia)
• Carling Brewing Company (Massachusetts)
• Carling Brewing Company (Ohio)
• Carling National Breweries, (Georgia)
• Carlings Brewery (Maryland)
• Chattanooga Brewing Company (Tennessee)
• Claussen Brewing Company (Washington) 
• Clyffside Brewing Company (Ohio) 
• Colombia Brewers Industries (Colorado)
• Colombia Brewers Industries (New York)
• Colombia Brewers Industries (North Carolina)
• Colombia Brewers Industries (Vermont)
• Colombia Brewers Industries (Washington)
• Columbia Brewing Company (Connecticut)
• Columbia Brewing Company (Missouri)
• Connecticut Breweries Company (Connecticut)
• Consumers Brewery Company (New Jersey)
• Coors Brewery (Colorado)
• Cremo Brewing Company (Connecticut)
• Cumberland Brewing Company (Maryland)
• Dawsons Brewery (Indiana)
• Dayton Breweries Company (Ohio)
• Decatur Brewing Company (Illinois)
• Des Moines Brewing Company (Iowa)
• Diebolt Brewing Company (Ohio) 
• Dixie Brewing Company (Louisiana)
• Dobler Brewing Company (New York)
• Donora Brewing Company (Pennsylvania) 
• Duquesne Brewing Company (Pennsylvania) 
• Ebling Brewing Company (New York) 
• Edelbrau Brewing Company (New York) 
• Elizabeth Brewing Company (New Jersey) 
• Empire Brewing Company (Missouri) 
• Enterprise Brewing Company (Massachusetts) 
• E. N. Voight Brewing Company (Michigan) 
• Ernest Brothers Brewing Company (Illinois)
• Falls City Brewing Company Inc. (Kentucky) 
• Falstaff Brewery (Texas)
• Falstaff Brewery (California)
• Fidelio Brewery (New York)
• Fitzgerald Brothers Brewing Company (New York)
• F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company (Maryland) 
• F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company (Minnesota)
• F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company (New York)
• F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company (Pennsylvania)
• Fort Pitt Brewing Company (Pennsylvania) 
• Frankenmuth Brewery (Michigan)
• Fred Heim Brewing Company (Missouri) 
• Fred Krug Brewing Company (Nebraska)
• Fremont Brewing Company (Nebraska) 
• Fresno Brewing Company (California)
• F.W. Cook Brewing Company (Indiana)
• Gambrinus Brewery Company (New York)
• Garden City Brewery (Illinois)
• General Brewery Company (California)
• Genesee Brewing Company (New York) 
• Gerhard Lang Brewery (New York)
• Goebel Brewing Company (Michigan) 
• Goetz Brewery (Missouri)
• Golden West Brewing Company (California)
• Gottfried Brewing Company (Illinois)
• Gould Brewing Company (Florida)
• Grace Brothers Brewery (California)
• Grand Rapids Brewing Company (Michigan)
• Gund Brewing Company (Ohio)  
• Gunther Brewing Company (Maryland) 
• Hamms Brewery (California)
• Hamms Brewery (Maryland)
• Hamms Brewery (Minnesota)
• Hampden Brewing Company (Indiana)
• Hampden Brewing Company (Massachusetts)
• Harry Mitchell Brewing Company (Texas) 
• Harvard Brewing Company (Massachusetts) 
• H. Clausen and Sons Brewing Company (New York) 
• Heidelberg Brewing Company (Kentucky) 
• Heidelberg Brewing Company (Washington) 
• Heilmann Brewery (Maryland)
• Heilmann Brewery (Minnesota)
• Hensler Brewing Company (New Jersey) 
• Herancourt Brewing Company (Ohio) 
• Highland Brewing Company (Pennsylvania) 
• Highlander Brewery (Montana)
• Hittleman Brewing Company (New York) 
• Horlacher Brewing Company (Pennsylvania) 
• Housman Brewing Company (Wisconsin) 
• Huebner-Toledo Breweries Company (Ohio)
• Hyde Park Breweries (Missouri)
• International Breweries (Ohio)
• Jas. Hanley Brewing Company (Rhode Island)
• John Gund Brewing Company (Wisconsin) 
• Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company (Tennessee)
• Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company (Wisconsin) 
• Jung Brewing Company (Ohio) 
• Keystone Brewers (Pennsylvania)
• Kingsbury Brewery (Wisconsin)
• Kolnile Brewing Company (Pennsylvania) 
• Latrobe Brewing Company (Pennsylvania) 
• Lexington Brewing Company (Kentucky) 
• Liebmann Breweries (New York)
• Lion Brewery (Michigan)
• Loewers V. Gambrinus Brewery Company (New York)
• Los Angeles Brewing Company (California)
• Lucky Lager Brewing Company (California)
• Lyon and Sons Brewing Company (New Jersey)
• Malcolm Brewing Company (New York) 
• Manhattan Brewing Company (Illinois)
• Manor Brewing Company (New York) 
• Mathie Brewing Company (California)
• M.K. Goetz Brewing Company (Missouri)
• Miller Brewery (California)
• Miller Brewery (Ohio)
• Miller Brewery (Texas)
• Miller Brewing Company, Inc. (Georgia)
• Mohawk Valley Brewing Company (Pennsylvania) 
• Narragansett Brewing Company (Rhode Island) 
• National Brewery (Maryland)
• National Brewing Company (Arizona)
• Northamerican Brewing Company (New York) 
• Northern Brewing Company (Wisconsin) 
• Old Reading Brewery (Pennsylvania) 
• Olympia Brewing Company (Washington)
• Pabst Brewing Company (California)
• Pabst Brewing Company (Georgia)
• Pabst Brewing Company (Illinois)
• Pabst Brewing Company (Minnesota)
• Pabst Brewing Company (New Jersey) 
• Pabst Brewing Company (New York) 
• Pabst Brewing Company (Wisconsin)
• Park Brewing Company (Rhode Island)
• Pasto Brewery (Colorado)
• Pearl Brewing Company (Texas) 
• Peoples Brewing Company (Indiana)
• Peter Fox Brewing Company (Illinois)
• Pfeiffer Brewing Company (Michigan)
• Philadelphia Brewing Company (Pennsylvania) 
• Phillip Schillinger Brewing Company (Alabama)
• Phoenix Brewing Company (Kentucky) 
• Pioneer Brewing Company (Illinois)
• Pittsburgh Brewing Company (Pennsylvania) 
• Potosi Brewery (Wisconsin)
• Prima Bismarck Brewing Company (Illinois)
• Rainier Brewery (Washington)
• Red Top Brewing Company (Ohio) 
• Regal Amber Brewing Company (California)
• Renner Brewing Company (Ohio) 
• Rheingold Brewery (New Jersey)
• Rheingold Brewery (New York)
• Rock Island Brewing Company (Illinois)
• Rocky Mount Brewery (Colorado)
• Rolling Rock Brewery (Pennsylvania)
• Ruppert Brewery (New York)
• San Diego Brewing Company (California) 
• Shaeffers Brewery (Minnesota)
• Schantz and Schwind Brewing Company (Ohio)
• Schlitz Brewery (New York)
• Schlitz Brewery (Tennessee)
• Schlitz Brewery (Texas)
• Schlitz Brewery (Wisconsin)
• Schlitz Brewing Company (California)
• Schlitz Brewing Company (North Carolina)
• Schlitz Brewery Winston Salem, NC
• S. Liebmann’s Sons Brewing Company (New York) 
• Southern Brewing Company (Florida)
• Springfield Brewing Company (Massachusetts)
• Stagmaier Brewing Company (Pennsylvania) 
• Standard Brewing Company (Louisiana)
• Stanton Brewery (New York)
• Sterling Brewers (Indiana)
• Strohs Brewery Company (Michigan)
• Strohs Brewery Company (Minnesota)
• Stroh Schlitz Brewery (Texas)
• Storz Brewing Company (Nebraska)
• Sweeney Brewery (Vermont)
• Sweeney Brewery (Washington)
• Terre Haute Brewing Company (Indiana)
• Theodore Hamm Brewing Company (Maryland)
• Theodore Hamm Brewing Company (Texas)
• Toledo Breweries Company (Ohio)
• Tube City Brewing Company (Pennsylvania)
• United States Brewing Company (Illinois)
• Walter Brewing Company (Colorado)
• Weibel Brewing Company (Connecticut)
• Welz and Zerweck Brewing Company (New York)
• Westchester County Brewery (New York)
• Wiedermann Brewing Company (Kentucky)
• Winter Brewery (Pennsylvania)
• Zang Brewing Company (Colorado)

Free Asbestos Testing for Brewery Workers 

If you or a loved one worked at a brewery or brewing company that may have been contaminated with asbestos, you may be eligible to receive a free medical examination courtesy of our law firm to find out if you have developed mesothelioma, asbestosis, or other asbestos-related diseases. 

For more information about scheduling your free exam, contact the lawyers at Hissey, Mulderig & Friend by calling our office toll-free at 1-855-500-3734. 

You can also reach us by completing our free case evaluation form, which is located in the upper left corner of this page. 

After we receive your message, one of our staff members will contact you to obtain any additional information we need and to help schedule your free asbestos test.