El Paso Brewing Company

El Paso Brewing Company sits one of the most significant roadways in El Paso's history. Before Interstate 10 came through El Paso in 1959, State Highway 20, or "Texas 20" as it's known by locals, was the main auto route between San Antonio and Los Angeles. The railroad came through El Paso in 1881, and construction materials like heavy lumber, steel and brick came quickly. Buildings got taller and goods shipped into El Paso traveled by truck to towns and villages in Mexico and north to Santa Fe. Warehouses on Texas Avenue flourished, most with brick walls and wooden rafters. 810 Texas Avenue is where El Paso Brewing makes its home, in the heart of the former industrial district that changed El Paso from a sleepy, dusty little adobe village of several hundred settlers into a western boomtown of more than 16,000 by 1900. It was in 1900 that Alfred Courchesne established the original El Paso Brewing and Ice Co. to serve thirsty cowboys, businessmen, explorers and gold seekers. El Paso was becoming infamous for being the "Six Shooter Capital of the World" and the original "Sin City." Scores of saloons, dance halls, gambling establishments, and houses of prostitution opened on the main streets. Eventually, El Paso leaders cleaned up the lawlessness, and Prohibition in the 1920s spelled doom for brewing in El Paso. Today's El Paso Brewing Company is at historic 810 B Texas Avenue. Show Less