Buffalo Bill's Brewery
notes: label: Description
content: Buffalo Bill's Brewery was one of the nation's first post-Prohibition brewpubs, founded by photographer Bill Owens in Hayward, California, in 1983.
label: Description
content: Small, "micro" brewers changed where and how many Americans drank beer. From the 1980s through the early 2000s, brewers worked to change legislation in their states to enable brewers to sell beer to customers to enjoy on-site, in the same location where it had been brewed, often with food. Brewpubs—an early 1980s innovation—functioned as informal gathering places that united producers with consumers and invited the community into the brewery. In this way, craft beer’s taprooms became a new kind of “third place,” in the words of a 1980s sociologist: a place for people to meet and relax that was neither the home nor the office.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Buffalo Bill's Brewery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0080.05
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0080.05
label: accession number
content: 2018.0080
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sign
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown; gold (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 71 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 182.245 cm x 3.81 cm