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| 1883 |
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City Brewery is built on the east bank of the San Antonio River because you need good water to brew good beer. |
| 1887 |
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A new brew is introduced on July 4th — “City Pearl” beer, named after its refreshing bubbles. |
| 1888 |
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City Brewery is renamed the San Antonio Brewery Association. |
| 1894 |
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The “new” brick Brew House is built. It’s iconic mansard-roofed tower has been a beloved San Antonio landmark ever since. |
| 1894 |
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The Stable is completed, providing elegant lodging for the Brewery’s draft horses. Today, the stunning elliptical building is a popular venue for social and business events. |
| 1895 |
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Owners mortgage the Brewery to fund expansion. They build the Ice Machine House, which later becomes known as the Engine Room. The Boiler House is built the same year. |
| 1897 |
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The old wooden City Brew House is torn down to make room for the new Stock House, where up to 20,155 barrels of beer will be stored. |
| 1899 |
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Otto Koehler becomes Brewery president. |
| 1901 |
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Koehler, VP Otto Wahrmund, Secretary John James Stevens and their attorney S.G. Newton buy the Brewery. |
| 1904 |
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The new brick Administration Building is built. |
| 1914 |
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Otto Koehler is murdered by former mistress Hedda Bergemeister. His widow, Emma Bentzen Koehler takes an active role in running the Brewery. |
| 1920 |
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Prohibition begins. The Brewery survives the next 13 years by making near-beer, soda water, dairy products and ice. |
| 1933 |
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September 15 at 12:01 a.m. Prohibition ends and 6000 people gather to watch 100 trucks and 25 boxcars loaded with Pearl beer rumble out of the Brewery. |
| 1933 |
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Emma Koehler, whose shrewd business decisions helped the Brewery weather Dry Law, dies. Her nephew, Otto Andrew Koehler, is elected president of the company, a position he holds until his death in 1969. |
| 1939 |
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A big garage is built on the northeast corner of the site. Today, instead of beer trucks, the facility houses the Aveda Institute and Texas Farm to Table Cafe. |
| 1948 |
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The Brewery doubles its output. |
| 1952 |
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San Antonio Brewing Association changes its name to Pearl Brewing Company. |
| 1959 |
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Brewery output is triple what it was in 1949. |
| 1965 |
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A new office building is constructed where the old ice house used to stand. |
| 1970 |
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The Brewery merges with Southdown Corporation, ending 84 years of family brewing history. |
| 1985 |
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Pabst Brewing acquires the Brewery and operates it until 2001. |
| 2002 |
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The Brewery site is purchased by Silver Ventures, a San Antonio investment company. Redevelopment plans begin. |
| 2005 |
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Aveda Institute San Antonio opens.
Texas Farm to Table Café opens. |
| 2006 |
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Pearl Stable opens. Center for Foods of the Americas opens, occupying a former industrial shed, now sleekly adapted to its new culinary education function. |
| 2007 |
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Center for Food of the Americas becomes a branch campus of the internationally acclaimed Culinary Institute of America. |
