Edward Boppel News Today

The Brainerd Brewing Co. on Boom Lake’s east shore was in operation as late as 1914. Razed a decade later, part of the brewery’s foundation was uncovered by the Brainerd History Group in 2009.

The Brainerd Brewing Co. began in 1880 as a brewery on the east shore of Boom Lake near where Kiwanis Park is today. The beer was mostly enjoyed locally. But Prohibition put an end to the brewery in 1914.