Bottle

Object/Artifact

-

Vermont Historical Society

Name/Title

Bottle

Entry/Object ID

1987.6.1a

Description

Brown glass beer bottle with a metal cap. The bottle has two paper labels, one around the neck and one around the body. The lower label has an illustration of a mountain lion (catamount) with the title, "CATAMOUNT GOLD".

Context

Distributed by Catamount Brewing Company in White River Junction, Vermont

Acquisition

Accession

1987.6

Source or Donor

Osgood, William

Acquisition Method

Gift

Made/Created

Date made

1987

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Bottle

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Vessel

Nomenclature Class

Containers

Nomenclature Category

Category 07: Distribution & Transportation Objects

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

7 in

Diameter

2-1/2 in

Material

Cardboard, Glass, Paper

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Catamount Brewing Company

Related Places

Place

Village

White River Junction

Town

Hartford

County

Windsor County

State/Province

Vermont

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Interpretative Labels

Label

Catamount Ale Bottle, 1987 Distributed by Catamount Brewing Company, 1984-2000 White River Junction, VT Glass, paper Gift of William Osgood,1987.6.1 Founded in 1984 by partners Stephen Mason, Alan Davis, and Stephen Israel, the Catamount Brewing Company was among the pioneers of craft beer on the East Coast. Their Catamount Gold, the bottle featured here, won a gold medal at the 1989 Great American Beer Festival. They expanded quickly and opened a huge new brewing facility in Windsor in 1996, but their meteoric rise was matched by an equally quick fall, and they closed in April 2000. The Windsor facility was purchased and is still occupied today by the Massachusetts Bay Brewing Company, makers of Harpoon. In 2020, Harpoon begin brewing under the Catamount label once again.