Bottlers & Brewers

Name Address/Comments Photo(s)
7-Up Plant Philadelphia Pike & Harvey Road
Ames Brewery Near St. Francis Hospital
Brandywine Brewing Company • 3801 Kennett Pike, opened 1995
• 9th & Orange Streets, opened in 2005 but closed six months later after a shooting at the intersection
Yes
Canada Dry DuPont Highway & Basin Road
Coca Cola Lancaster & Avenues
Colonial Bottling Co. (Mr. Katz, Owner) 300 Block Lincoln Street
Delaware Bottling Co. Chestnut & Franklin Streets
Diamond State Bottling (Gula Family) 3rd & West Streets - Later moved to Locust Avenue, Elsmere
Dr. Pepper 2nd Street & Greenhill Avenue
London Dry 2700 Gov. Printz Blvd.
Mundorff Bottling Co. (Mundorff Family) 30th & N. Market Streets
NeHi - Royal Crown Co. 31st & N. Market Streets
Pepsi Cola (Mr. Broll, Owner) 400 Block Jackson Street, then to
800 Block Lancaster Avenue, then to
A & S. Market Streets, then to
3500 Block Gov. Printz Blvd.
Purity Beverage Co. (Ben Kaplin/Harry Brenner/Hank Sidlow) 200 Block Jefferson Street
Rizzo's Soda Company
Sanitary Bottling Co. 100 Block Orange Street
Triangle Bottling Co. Beach & S. Van Buren Streets
Uncle Ben's Soda Water Company
United Bottling Co. (Adam Jablonski) 215 Maryland Avenue
Wilmington Bottling House (Rizzo Family) 829 Lancaster Avenue
Whistle Bottling Co. (Orange Crush) (Pete Ebener) 4th & Union Streets
*** BREWERS/DISTRIBUTORS ***
Bavarian Brewery 506 DuPont Street
This 5th & DuPont Street building was a brewery since 1880 when it was the Excelsior Lager Beer Brewery. Sold to Del-Mar-Va Brewing Co. November 1937
Del-Mar-Va Brewing Company 506 DuPont Street
From 1937 to 1944, the brewery had financial and organizational problems trying to survive during the early days of WW-II. The Krueger Brewing Company purchased the brewery.
Diamond State Brewers 5th & Adams Streets
Hartmann & Fehrenbach Brewery Lovering Avenue & Scott Street
Kruger's Brewery 506 N. DuPont Streets
Majors Beer Distributor
Stoekle's Brewery 5th & Adams Streets
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Created: February 20, 2018
Revised: August 22, 2022