William Ulmer Brewery

The William Ulmer Brewery stands as a monument to a time when Brooklyn was the brewery capital of the United States. In 2010, this complex made history by becoming the first brewery in New York City to be designated an official landmark. The site serves as a rare, surviving time capsule of the city's once-booming German brewing culture, which flourished in Bushwick during the nineteenth century. Before Prohibition effectively silenced the industry in 1920, the brewery produced millions of gallons of beer annually, fueling a district that at one point supplied nearly ten percent of all beer consumed in the entire country.