The sign atop the Genesee Brewing Company building downtown (now the High Falls Brewing Company). Photo by ![[WWW]](http://rocwiki.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
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The Genesee Brewing Company was founded in 1878 1 from the Rau and Reiskey brewery. The early brewery was successful because of its high falls location and the use of caves. dug in the rocks, to help keep the beer cool without refrigeration.
Genesee Brewing Company Timeline 2
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1857 Charles Rau starts a high falls brewery. Renames brewery Rau and Reisky after taking partner, Emil Reisky.
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1874 Entrepreneur Mathius Kondolf takes control of the brewery and renames it Genesee Brewing Co. in 1878.
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1889 Investors purchase Genesee Brewing and its two neighbors, Bartholomay and Rochester breweries. John Wehle, a second-generation Bartholomay worker, welcomes the birth of son Louis, who one day will run the company.
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1919 - 1932 Prohibition
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1932 Prohibition repealed; Louis Wehle combines Genesee and parts of Bartholomay creating Genesee Brewing Co.
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1952 Miss Genny appears in Genesee ads.
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1960 Genesee Cream Ale introduced.
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1994 J.W. Dundee's Honey Brown Lager hits the market. Annual output three years later will be more than 5 million cases.
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2000 Genesee is reorganized and renamed the High Falls Brewing Company..
- 1http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/beer/genny.htm
- 2Drawn from sidebar on February 24 Article on D&C
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