Exploring the Abandoned Olympia Beer Factory with Brew House | Urbex
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ต.ค. 2022
- Today I explored the abandoned Olympia Brewing Company campus in the Western United States. This brewery was the largest employer in the area and has a spectacular brewhouse. This is where Olympia Beer was made. Originally named capital brewing company.
History of the location:
It all started with Leopold Schmidt, a German immigrant and brewmaster that settled in the western united states. Leopold chose this site to build his brewing facility that originally included an ice factory, cellar, and a 4 story wooden brew house in 1896. The brewhouse you saw in the intro is not original but still old. It replaced the original brewhouse in 1906. He chose this location on the Puget sound because the water produced electrical power and there was an artesian spring that was the perfect supply for beer. Hense the capital brewing company slogan “It’s in the water”. It was about this time that the company changed its name to Olympia brewing company after its most popular product, Olympia beer. The brewery was huge success. That was until 1916 when the state of Washington adopted prohibition statewide. Production and the use of the property ceased. After prohibition ended the Olympia brewing company built a new brewery in the area. The property served many purposes over the years. From cabinetry to storage. Often vacant for long periods. Over the years many of the original buildings were replaced. This old brew house was added to the national register of historic places in 1978. In 2016 the property was donated to the town who started restoration efforts. They spent millions only for the brew house to be set on fire in 2020. The brew house now sits surrounded by cameras and boarded up.
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My grandfather and uncles all used to work in that Brew House before moving into the new Brew house further up the river. In 2008 my grandfather was invited by the historical society to take a tour of the Old Brew house he came home and told me that the main building was more then capable of brewing again and that the copper vats were still there. My uncle Patrick could tell you what each and ever room was used for. I'm 38 now I grew up on the other side of the freeway from the Oly Brewing Company every morning at 7am sharp a steam whistle would blow and the whole town could hear it same at 12p and 5p it was a staple of life in our town. I remember as a kid the smells of the Brewery and walking across the bridge over the freeway to get the most amazing beer cookies from the visitor center. Its sad to see the thing that built this city and part of the reason it became the capital of the state treated with such disrespect. and as always "Its the Water!" "It's the beer!"
Wow. Enjoyed having Olympia Beer in Washington in the summer of 1974. Had no idea it is no longer around. Thanks for the video and your work.
Good to see you filming again. Take care. Peace.
I’m ecstatic to be back at it!
His name is Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh
I need somebody with know! Thank you!!!
4:40 The 3 port hole or portal windows like all the old world power stations had.9:55 That would be a great stage for the band at a rave.
All I can picture in my mind are gorgeous apartments in that building. Sad it's sitting empty.
My company does the security cameras and alarms for the part of the brewery that is blocked off. Went on a little tour myself today, and the history I found today was amazing!!
Awesome! Hell of a perk of the job. I would have loved to see in the brewery.
Are you able to discretely let people see inside??
Haven't seen you in a while great to see that you are still here. Great explore, some peoples' chillins got to always be doing something. Have a great day
Olympia was my beer of choice since 1970 when Olympia was the only beer on the island I was working on.
Very interesting explore. So good to see you back. Thanks so much for the upload 😃👍
Glad to be back in the groove!
Living vicariously through you. Any cool huge abandoned building I come across... I think to myself.... it would be cool to see inside there...
Thanks for another cool adventure.
I've been there. I took about ten steps into it, turn on my heel, and left. Tweeker's have torn out the water heaters, walls, wiring etc. ,exposing asbestos all over the place.
Great explore and it gave me an understanding of the old construction methods. A member of my family, by marriage, is directly related to the original owners of the Penn Brewery in Pittsburgh. Originally Eberhardt & Ober Brewery and also founded by immigrants of German origin. It's very modern and fixed up today. I would have loved to explored before the renovation was done.
My grandpa loved this beer. I got to go on a tour in the 80s. Donkeys name was Eor which I may have misspelled.
It's great to see another video from you!! It's crazy people set fire to the brewery during it's restoration.
leopold frederich schmidt was my great great great grandfather, thank you for making this
How do you feel about Leopold F Schmidt III supposedly being involved in a large homosexual ring in 1980?
dude wtf@israelelliott2212
Cool Video!!! Tons of history at this location.
Long time no see! Good to see explores from you again. I'm really impressed with the tagging/graffiti. They must have felt pretty safe from being arrested for trespassing, to put that much time into it. I wonder if the reinforced concrete platform might have had a bottling assembly or something on it, since from the outside, the building looked like it might have had loading doors.
What a shame. Looks solid, like you could clean it up and use it quickly!
I agree I can’t believe it’s just sitting there rotting away. Would make the perfect brewery.
Been missing you for a while. When I see a new video notification from your channel it makes me smile. [edit] You mention the Olympia Brewery resumed business after Prohibition in some other premises. That's nothing short of amazing. I'm not American, but I wonder how many such similar cases to that there were. 17-18 years is a huge amount of time in that context, isn't it?
Man you go it.inside pretty tron right there
The large windows was to bring in the outside light inside. For people to work inside. Even with electricity in the early days the light produce wasn't like it's today.
Eeyore from winnie the pooh
Cheers🍻
that donkey his name is Eyore (Probly not spelling it right) from winnie the pooh Christopher robin and the 100 acre woods nice explore:)
Question: how tight is the security now? I've heard it's pretty relaxed at the moment but don't feel like having any unwanted encounters haha getting too old for that
Just walked up the access road on the backside. I think if you stay away from the brewhouse, you’ll be OK.
@Once Occupied thanks! Yea my buddy went there about a year ago, security showed up right away so i was curious about that since I do urbex photography and I've been wanting so badly to get some shots at the old brewery.
I think I remember this place in the 90s they had sold flattened coins in a coin machine I was a little child than wow😂 what happened that place was cool at one point
As a kid, I got one of those flattened, reshaped and embossed coins you're talking about at that Olympia Brewery! I think I probably still have it, packed away in a box of mementos somewhere. Yeah, the place used to be cool. Catching a glimpse of the old, brick brew house from the freeway was a favorite landmark I'd look for whenever my family made the long road trip to visit my great-grandmother in Seattle.
Very cool… kind of reminds me of the movie
That would be a neat place for a puppet show.
So right behind the old brew house on the other side of Custer Way there are some massive abandoned buildings and also across Capital Blvd from there. does anyone know if those also belonged to Olympia brewing?
Just went there Friday lmao
i want to go check this place out how tight is the security now ??
thats what im asking too, im tryna go
Zero...it's the capitol
is it sulfur?
Please post in your show more what gear you use, thanks.
Here is most of it. onceoccupied.com/gear/ I haven’t updated the page yet to show that I’m actually using an iPhone 13 pro. Not the max. The wide-angle lens got a lot better on the 13 so I rarely use the moment lenses now. My highest quality video is are taken on my iPhone 13 pro with a DJI mobile gimbal. It’s just so easy to carry and provide such good quality. It blows the GoPro out of the water.
@@OnceOccupied Thank you so much.
@@OnceOccupied Awesome. This really means a lot.
Do you think its possible to get permission to enter and take photographs? I have never done urban exploring before and I am a bit paranoid of getting in trouble with security
Eeyore
I’ve been following for a couple years now and I thought in a previous video that you always got owners permission to explore. Is that not the case this time since you were trying to avoid the security cameras?
We try to get permission as much as possible. Often there’s not an owner that you can contact. In many cases, the places are just wide-open. Like this one, I walked right through a homeless camp on the trail on the way to this building. I respect that they are trying to protect the brewhouse, so I just took photos from the outside.
Eore!
"I have no idea who this character is" 😐
Something productive needs to be done with this. The shame of Olympia.
I'm so sick of taggers and their paint cans ruining things for everyone. What a shame.
Come visit japan, stuff abandoned and no dick's painted on stuff
alr stop tagging sosa toys
“It’s the Water” not “It’s in the Water”.
Bowl cut
You don't know who Eeyore is??!! I'm sorry your parents didn't love you..... 😉
Hey can u send me a message I have info on a project how can I reach u
Appreciate you sharing this location🏚 EEYORE