Baltimore Beer Bottles

Israel Greenberg's Bottling House 1903-1917

Greenberg ran a successful bottling house from 1903-1917 first at 306 S. Eden St, then moving in 1905 to 407 S. Caroline, then 1907 to 323 S. Eden and lastly in 1911 to 407 S. Caroline St. I find no brewery affiliation and these locations did not have any apparatus for brewing so he must have bought beer from local brewers and just bottled them under his name.

Just like all the other locations in which Greenberg set up shop, the Caroline St address lacked the operational requirements of a brewery.

#1005

Horizontal oval slugplate, applied lip with no glasshouse identified.

Aqua Loopseal Deadman

#1010

Round slugplate with no glasshouse identified.

Aqua Loopseal VR

#1015

Round slugplate with no glasshouse identified.

Aqua Loopseal C

Clear Loopseal C

#1020

Round slugplate with no glasshouse identified.

Amber Crown C

Aqua Crown C

Clear Crown C

#1025

Round slugplate with no glasshouse identified.

Amber Crown C

Aqua Crown C

Clear Crown C

#1030

Private mold with no glasshouse identified.

Amber Crown C

Aqua Crown C

Clear Crown C

George Gunther Jr's Brewing Company 1902-1920

With the failure of The Maryland Brewery in 1901, George Jr and his father swooped back in and started the George Gunther Jr. brewery two blocks away from the the father's brewery which was taken over by GBS after the Maryland Brewery failure.

Unlike his father, George Jr outsourced the bottling of his beer. This was completed by Phillip Bros at 609-611 S. Caroline. Bottling beer was expensive and bottles were worth more than the contents within. Some breweries would rather farm out the practice than take on physical and financial liability.

Harker & Gebhardt 1896-1897

Andrew Gebhardt was living at 1415 E. Lafyette from 1901-1903, listed as a brewer. He was associated with Herman Wilms and the Baltimore Berliner Weiss Beer Brewing Company at 1715 Spring St. William Harker was also involved in Weiss Beer and move than likely they just just the Baltimore Berliner's Weiss Beer and bottled it under their name.

Due to the close proximity of Gebhardt's home to The Baltimore Berliner Weiss Beer Brewing Company it appears that Harker & Gebhardt just use their beer and bottled it under the Harker & Gebhardt name. Not exactly a "New York" beer!