Longtime NJ landmark, Anheuser-Busch brewery is closing

Longtime NJ landmark, Anheuser-Busch brewery is being sold and closing Erin Vogt Published: December 11, 2025 Budweiser brewery in Newark is being sold by Anheuser Busch (anheuser-busch.com/facilities)

🏭 After 75 years, the iconic Anheuser-Busch Newark brewery is set to close in early 2026.

👷‍♂️ Full-time staff are being offered transfers with relocation aid — or severance if they decline.

📦 The site will be sold to Goodman Group, which plans industrial and logistics redevelopment.

NEWARK — After 75 years as a landmark across from Newark Liberty Airport, the Anheuser-Busch brewery would be closing up by early next year.

The brewery first opened in 1951 — second oldest only to Anheuser-Busch’s flagship brewery in St. Louis, Missouri.

It has made and packaged a number of th