The New Albion Brewing Company® was founded in Sonoma, California in 1976 by Jack McAuliffe, known as the “father of craft beer” in the United States. The first post-Prohibition microbrewery, New Albion was built from the ground-up by Jack, who longed to taste the beers he came to love while serving in Europe in the Navy in the 1960s. Shuttered in 1982, New Albion Brewing served as an inspiration to countless other home brewers who wanted to share their beers with the world. New Albion Ale was revived in 2013 by Jim Koch and the Boston Beer Company, and installed as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s “Brewing a Revolution” exhibit in 2019.

Originally based out of Sonoma, California and since 2013 out of Cleveland, OH.

Admin: Brewing was being done at Platform Beer Company in Ohio, but has stopped and now turns up periodically as a collaboration with Raleigh Brewing Company or in Ohio as a collaboration.