American strong Ales and Stouts of the post-Repeal era
Below is a list of strong ales and stouts brewed in the US after Repeal, collected in reaction to the claim by UK beer writer Pete Brown in the Oxford Companion to Beer that Ballantine India Pale Ale was "...one of the few characterful beers to survive into the post-Prohibition age" (page 485).
Omitted from this list - due to space limitations, if for no other reason - are the scores if not hundreds of porters, bocks, cream ales and numerous beers simply marketed as "ale" in the US.
(BROWN) STOUTS
A.B.C. Old Stout (CA)
Amsterdam Stout (NY)
Bache’s Stratford Stout (Detroit, MI)
Ballantine's Brown Stout
Brown Stout Porter - A.B. Co. (Scranton, PA)
Betz Brown Stout (Phila.)
Boston Stout (Commercial)
Bulldog (Acme - CA)
Burgomaster - Fitzgerald (NY)
Burke’s (LIC, NY)
Canandaigua Royal Stout
Carnegie Stout
Champagne Velvet Stout
Consumer’s Winter Stout
Crockery City Stout (OHIO)
Croft Stout
Dublin Stout (Falstaff)
Dublin Stout (Wentzler - Lykens, PA)
Dublin House Stout (Edelbrau)
Edelbrau (Brooklyn)
Esslinger’s
Fell's Stout Porter (Simpson, PA)
Golden Glow (CA)
Hoff-Brau (Indiana)
Iron City XX Stout
John Bull - (New Phila. OH)
Keeley’s Olde Stout
Kuebler Stout (PA)
Loewer's Stout (NYC)
Lord Essex Stout (Krueger)
Neuweiler
Ogren’s (Mayville, WI)
Old Dublin Stout (Kiley, IN)
Ostner's Stout (Jax, FL)
Pickwick (Boston, MA)
Rainier
Royal Hoff-Brau
(Ft. Wayne, IN)
Royal Stout AleR
Ruff Old English Stout (Peoples Brewing Co. Duluth MN)
Scotty Stout (Victor, PA)
Sean O'Shaunghnessy Boarhead Stout (Ortlieb, PA)
Shannon Cream Stout (Balt.)
Sir Edward Stout (Schoenling)
Smith's Stout (Smith Bros., MA)
Walter's Old Fashioned (CO)
INDIA PALE ALES
Ballantine
Bartels (Syracuse)
Betz (Philadelphia)
Beverwyck India Ale
Boston Old IPA
Crown India Ale
Dobler
Downs (Van Buren)
Enterprise
Feigenspan
Fidelio East India Pale Ale
General Braddock India Ale
Hornung’s India Ale
Kent Ale India Pale (Krueger)
King Phillip's India Pale Ale
Moore & Quinn
Neuweiler
Old India Vatted - (Croft- MA)
Old India Ale - (Hull -CT)
Old Rip - (Southern Indiana)
Old India Pale Ale (CommercialXBrewing - Charlestown, MA)
Wm. Peter (Union City, NJ)
Pony Ale (Wehle)
Quandt's
Queen City
Regal India Ale
Utica Club
Wehle Mule Head India Ale
Westminster India Pale Ale
New York state's Genesee Brewing Co's and West End (today's F. X. Matt) beer portfolio in the mid-1930's included several different ales. Genesee would also market a 9 Horse Ale and, later, Dickens Ale (a brand originally of the Syracuse Brewery, Inc. that Genesee created after buying the Zett's Brewing Company in the 1930's) and, in the late 1940's, a Cream Ale that predated the current one first released in 1960.
(above) Two Stock ales from PA's Adam Scheidt's Brewing Co. and (below) two of several ales brewed by Allentown's Neuweiler Brewing Co.
(below) Though inaccurate as far as the claim of being "the oldest brewery in the country", this distributor's ad for Albany NY's Beverwyck Brewing Co.'s STOCK ALE suggests it would have been brewed before full Repeal.
STOCK ALES
1896 Old Stock Ale
Albion Old Stock Ale
Betz Old Stock
Beverwyck Stock Ale
Boston
Brockert's
C & L (Canavan & Leggett)
Clock’s
Commercial
Cremo
Croft
Dilling's English Brand Old Stock Ale (Power City)
Dutch Maid Old Stock Ale
Enterprise Half Stock Ale
Fort Schuyler Old Stock
Frontenac Stock Ale (Duquesne)
Friar’s Old Stock
Genesee 12 Horse Ale*
Genesee Old Stock Ale
Golden Glow Old Stock Ale
Grace Bros. Old Stock Ale
Grossvater Stock Ale
Hanley's Green Label
Harvard Full Stock Ale
Harvard Half Stock Ale
Holihan's Stock Ale
Holihan's Half Stock Ale
Horton’s Old Stock
Keeley's Stock Ale (Chicago)
Koebler Old Stock Ale (OH)
Lavell’s Half Stock (RI)
Linden (NY)
McSorley's Cream Stock
Moore & Quinn Old Stock
Mory’s Stock Ale (Jacob Ruppert)
Neuweiler's
Old England Stock Ale
Old Mule Stock Ale
Old Tap Select Stock Ale
Old Oxford Stock Ale
Ox Head Stock Ale
Philadelphia Old Stock
Power City Old Stock
Tam O'Shanter Stock Ale
Rainier Old Stock
Ram's Head Old Stock
Renner's Stock Ale
Scheieber Old Stock
Sebewaing Stock Ale
Smith's Stock Ale
Standard Old Stock (Rochester, NY)
Star Stock Ale
Superior Stock Ale
Topper 7 Grand Ale
Utica Club Stock Ale
Valley Forge Stock Ale
Yankee Old Stock Ale (Pittston, PA)
New Haven's Wehle Brewing Company's IPA and stock ale, PONY ALE and MULE HEAD STOCK ALE.
OCTOBER/NUT BROWN ALES*
August Wagner October Ale
(Old Capital Brewery, Ohio)
American Nut Brown
(Baltimore)
Beck's Old October Ale
Croft Ale
Drewry's
Duquesne Nut Brown
Feigenspan Amber Ale*
Ft. Pitt
Gold Medal (Indianapolis)
Grace Bros. Brown October Ale
Graupner's (PA)
Haberle's Brown October
Hanley's*
Harvard
Hull's
Lion Mellow Ale (NYC)*
Old Oxford N.B.
Old Pennsylvania N. B.
Patrick Henry October Ale
P.O.C. Nut Brown
Rainier Old Stock Ale*
Schmidt's Tiger Head Ale*
Sebewaing Stock Ale*
Sterling Golden Autumn Ale
Tally-Ho Brown October Ale
Topper Brown October (MT)
Trommer's October Brew
OTHER ALES
Ballantine Burton Ale
Canandaigua High Hopped
Cold Spring/Hacker's 5-X Ale
Derby High Hop Pale Ale
Eichler's Winter Ale
Harvard Double Ale
Genuine Scotch Ale (New Philadelphia Brewing Co., OH)
Moore & Quinn High Hop Ale
Ox Head Sturdy Ale
Rheingold Old Scotch Ale
Schmidt's Burton Ale
Stein's Dry Hopped Ale
Tam O'Shanter Scotch Ale
Thistle brand Scotch Ale
* In some examples, ales were not labeled as "October Ales" but described as such in advertising at the time.