Talk:Rainier Brewing Company

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motorcycle ad[edit]

Can anyone find the famous ad with the motorcycle on the web? Cacophony 05:28, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm surprised it's not on YouTube! --Lukobe 05:52, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

bear likes it[edit]

Is this beer being made again? Looks like a bear liked it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3580626.stm --Sonjaaa 22:19, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's still made, just not in Seattle. - Jmabel | Talk 06:41, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Images[edit]

I've placed a lot of images in Commons:Category:Rainier Brewing Company and its subcategories. I strongly recommend that someone pick a few for the article. ~~Oddly, we don't seem to have any images (except from a great distance) of the iconic brewery at 3100 Airport Way (though I took a whole bunch of the older Georgetown brewery). But~~ I did find some great pictures of the bottling process from a brochure printed in 1900. Unfortunately, I don't know what facility these were from: the main Georgetown brewery was not built until 1903. - Jmabel | Talk 06:41, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've now take a bunch of images of the iconic brewery, I'll upload them some time in the next few weeks. - Jmabel | Talk 19:34, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The iconic ones are done, more to come. - Jmabel | Talk 07:02, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

History[edit]

Best beer ever made. Ohio needs to know about it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C67:5080:15DA:ED57:E2E9:6A0:6C4 (talk) 04:38, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A lot could be cleared up on the history. I don't have a bunch of citable materials at hand, and the topic doesn't really excite me, so I'm hoping someone else will take it on, but there is a lot that could be done to sort out the several different breweries in the company's history (which I think is quite confusing as the article now stands).

Also, Rainier was a major exporter of beer as early as the 19th century. See the text portion of Commons:Image:Seattle and the Orient 63.jpg. - Jmabel | Talk 06:41, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"The Seattle site"[edit]

"…the Seattle site had been brewing beer since 1878": what site is referred to? Bayview Brewery? Rainier had multiple breweries in the Seattle area in the late 19th century. - Jmabel | Talk 07:18, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New file File:Malt Rainier ad.jpg[edit]

Recently the file File:Malt Rainier ad.jpg (right) was uploaded and it appears to be relevant to this article and not currently used by it. If you're interested and think it would be a useful addition, please feel free to include it. Dcoetzee 09:34, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bunch of Tossers[edit]

Found this: "Rainier Beer is now brewed under contract by a bunch of tossers in Irwindale, California." Pretty silly but obviously removed it. However, I was wondering, the reason I came to this article was I wanted to find who exactly those 'bunch of tossers' are. Anyone know? I think this would be very useful information for this article. Eddie mars (talk) 17:58, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting edits[edit]

Accidentally reverted a few edits on this page, all of them done my SmartAn01. Won't happen again and if I can undo my reverts I will.

NiklawskiMSTM (talk) 03:16, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Lighted only on one side" citation needed added[edit]

I clearly remember the Rainier Beer logo on top of the brewery being lighted from both sides while I was growing up. I would drive by the brewery at least twice a week (often at night) and I always remember seeing the Rainier R sign atop the brewery as being lit from both sides.

From what I can remember, once side was lit with carnival lights, and the other side was lit with neon.

Either that, or I'm crazy. That is entirely a possibility. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.31.209.51 (talk) 06:37, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment[edit]

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Rainier Brewing Company/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

Needs much more discussion of the two remarkable former breweries (most notably the one that is the dominant architectural feature of Georgetown) and of the continued existence of Rainier (on a contract brewing basis, I believe). - Jmabel | Talk 05:04, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 05:04, 11 November 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 03:51, 30 April 2016 (UTC)