Buffalo Brewing Co, Sacramento Cal. find

[Nick79]

Finally found something really good at the local thrift store! No chips or cracks or scratches, and the top even works. Pretty nice to find this over 100 year old brew at a second hand store

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Nice find, congratulations!

 

[Subterranean]

That's a keeper, congrats. Be careful, now you will be scouring shops and flea markets for other old Sacramento area bottles. Sub

 

[Mackaydon]

Great save!!
And welcome to TreasureNet !!
Some history:
Buffalo Brewing Company was founded by Herbert Grau in Sacramento, 1888, but the first beer did not reach the shelves until mid 1890.
Buffalo Brewing, like many breweries around the U.S., was named after a city.Only in this case, it wasn't named after the city where the brewery was actually located. Grau had worked in breweries in Buffalo, NewYork, the new Sacramento brewery was named Buffalo supposedly because Grau liked the name.
Buffalo Brewing closed when Prohibition came to California in 1920. When prohibition ended in 1934, Buffalo Brewing did reopen with a modernized brewery that was at full production in 1934.
But the brewery seems never to have regained its old market and it closed in 1942. In 1945 it was reopened by Grace Brothers Brewing of Santa Rosa. Grace Brothers started selling Buffalo Beer in cans in 1947 until closing the brewery again, this time for good, in 1949. The brewery was torn down in the 1950s.
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[sutphin]

DANG HOW DID MY HOOCH BOTTLE END UP IN CALI FROM BRUNSWICK MD? NICE DANG BOTTLE AND BALE LATCH>

 

[Knut dirtfisk]

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[diggummup]

Very nice pre prohibition bottle. Value wise one sold last summer for $100. That is with the top. Others from Sac. without a top regularly sell for between $30 and $60.