BEER FACT #9

Mexico's First Brewery

Like early American breweries, Mexico's first breweries got their start and influence from German emigrants in the mid 1800s. Mexico's oldest known brewery, Victoria, began in 1865 as a craft brewery producing bock, pilsner and a Vienna-style lager, which is still brewed today by its new owner, Modelo. In the 1920s, when U.S. breweries were floundering, most Mexican breweries grew substantially during America's prohibition era since Mexico legally manufactured beer and Americans flocked across the border to consume it. ¡Salud!