. Physical sites are denoted by 
markers.Use the hashtag #ALXBrewTour as you share photos of your tour experience on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
Free King Street Trolley
As always, please drink responsibly. Hop on and off the free King Street Trolley, which runs from the King St-Old Town Metrorail station to the waterfront seven days a week. See DashBus.com/Trolley for schedule.
Brief History of Beer in Alexandria
Established in 1749, this bustling port town brimmed with Scottish merchants and Irish immigrants. Because public drinking water didn’t yet exist, people quenched their thirst with beer, a staple of 18th-century life and the preferred beverage of dockworkers, shipwrights, sailors and families alike.
Alexandria was home to the largest pre-Prohibition brewery in the south, and one of the most historically relevant breweries in U.S. history, the Robert Portner Brewing Company.
Also known as the Tivoli Brewery, which brewed from 1862-1916, the Robert Portner Brewing Company closed when Virginia passed the 18th Amendment and Prohibition ensued. Only in 2011 would production brewing return to Alexandria, with the arrival of Port City Brewing Company.
