Shop 26
Hazy IPA
abv
6.6%
ibu
35
srm
3.4
Once a bastion of welding wizardry, Shop 26 was where molten metal met Navy ships. Perfect welds in impossible places (like hanging upside down inside a nuclear sub), set the welders of Shop 26 apart. It was also where thousands of “Wendy the Welders” first took up the torch. During WWII, these pioneering women became crucial craftspeople in the shipbuilding efforts on Mare Island.
WORKSHOP SERIES:
Mare Island, CA is a place where things are made. Brewed in limited batches – each beer in our WORKSHOP SERIES is an homage to 142 years of shipbuilding history, and the artisans and craftsmen that are currently writing the next chapter of this historic island.
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the history behind the name
Shop 26 welder at work in the bottom of a tank aboard a ship on Mare Island.
Shop 26 welders Alyce Sawyers and Josephine Hollingsworth were the first women to attain the rate of Electric Welder, 3rd class, in 1942.
From driving trucks to sheetmetal to welding, women workers were crucial to production on Mar Island during WWII.