After just over a year, 1840 Brewing Company in West Bend closed its doors on June 14.
The taproom, which also has a location in Bay View that opened in 2017, cited financial reasons and operational delays that contributed to the closure.
The West Bend location opened in late April of 2024 in the bottom of The District apartments at 401 N. Main St.
1840 Brewing Company crafts “high quality ales, lagers, sours, and stouts with a focus on barrel aging and blending,” according to its website.
Reasons that led 1840 Brewing Company in West Bend to close, according to its Facebook page
There were several reasons that led 1840 Brewing Company to close its West Bend location, according to its Facebook post:
“We did our best to carry the whole space with just beer service. But it wasn’t long before we were needing to invest more cash into the business to keep it running,” the company wrote on its Facebook page.
According to its Facebook page, 1840 Brewing Company is working on finding a replacement tenant for the space.
Cathy Kozlowicz can be reached at 262-361-9132 or cathy.kozlowicz@jrn.com. Follow her on Twitter at @kozlowicz_cathy.
This story was updated to add a video.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: 1840 Brewing Company in West Bend is closing after just 13 months
Reporting by Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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