In the year 1919, encouraged and assisted by a close friend, Joseph Raspillar who owned the Raspiller brewing company, “Papa”, Albert R. Markstein Sr., bought a horse, a wagon, and six cases of beer in order to start his own business.

Today, Markstein Sales Company is the proud wholesale distributor of the Anheuser-Busch InBev family of beers and several other world class beers. We employ over 170 people who provide the highest caliber of customer service to over 2200 retail accounts in the majority of Contra Costa and Alameda County. We sell, merchandise and deliver over 4 million cases of some of the world’s finest quality of beers annually.