Oregon
In 1856, Weinhard moved to California and settled briefly in Sacramento. The next year in March he relocated to Vancouver in what was then the Washington Territory where he began working at a brewery owned by John Meunich and helped construct a new brewery. Weinhard worked there for six months and then founded a brewery with George Bottler across the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon. This partnership did not last long and he sold out to Bottler and returned to working for Meunich. In 1859, Weinhard bought Meunich’s business and named it the Vancouver Brewery.
In 1862, Weinhard bought the Henry Saxer Brewery in Portland and then partnered with Bottler again to build a new brewery in what is now Northwest Portland. That year he also moved permanently to Portland. Weinhard sold his Vancouver operations in 1864 and bought out Bottler of his share of the business in 1866. He also bought Portland’s oldest brewery, the Liberty Brewery, and continued expansion of the Portland operations, then called the City Brewery. By 1890 the brewery was the largest in the Pacific Northwest and had grown from producing 2,000 barrels per year to 40,000 barrels that year.
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