The Mount Carbon Brewery was a brewery located at 716 South Centre Street, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, (Actually Mount Carbon, Pennsylvania) and which ran from 1845 to 1976 under various owners and names.^[1] Their Motto was "A Mellow Brew from the Mountains".

Timeline

• George Lauer circa 1845–1860. Orchard Brewery, so named for the Orchard section of Pottsville.
• Frederick Lauer (Mauck Chunk & Jackson Sts) 18??-1877
• Orchard Brewery 1877–1893. Operated by G. Lorenz Schmidt until his death.

A new brewery was built in 1886 in Mount Carbon by Lorenz Schmidt. Some facilities of the Orchard Brewery were used in the new Brewery.^[2]

• Operated under Estate of Lorenz Schmidt, Mount Carbon Brewery (Main St, Mount Carbon) 1893–1906.
• Schmidt Estate Brewing Co., Mount Carbon Brewery 1906-1908
• Mellet & Nichter Brewing Co. 1908-1920
• Prohibition in 1920-1933
• Matthew Kelley, trading as Mt. Carbon Brewery 1933-1935
• Mount Carbon Brewery, 1935-1976 ^[3]

Products

The following brand names were produced at the Mount Carbon Brewery. Production ceased in 1976 and brand licensing was sold to D. G. Yuengling & Son.^[4]

• Mount Carbon Ale 1933 - 1951
• Mount Carbon Beer 1933 - 1951
• Double Pilsener Beer 1934 - 1938
• Mount Carbon Half & Half 1934 - 1939
• Mount Carbon Bock 1934 - 1941
• Mount Carbon Münchner Style October Beer 1935 - 1941
• Mount Carbon Lager Beer (Under Matthew Kelly)
• Mount Carbon Pale Ale
• M.C. Ale 1935 - 1943
• M.C. Bock 1935 - 1943
• M.C. Porter 1935 - 1943
• M.C. Beer 1935 - 1943
• M.C. De Luxe Pilsner Beer
• Franklin Ale 1935 - 1945
• Mount Carbon Porter 1935 - 1977
• Bavarian Type [Premium] Beer 1941 - 1977, continued to be produced by D.G. Yuengling & Son until 1994.
• Old German Beer 1942 - 1949, produced by D.G. Yuengling & Son until 1994.
• Old Bohemian Beer 1942 - 1977
• Dix Club Beer 1944 - 1947
• Old Dutch Beer 1944 - 1949
• Franklin Beer 1945 - 1948
• Lord Salisbury Ale 1945 - 1975
• Old Fashioned Beer 1947 - 1951
• Club Society Beer 1953 - 1956
• Bavarian Type Bock 1953 - 1977