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Brewer is a city in Penobscot County, Maine, and part of the Bangor metropolitan area, with a population of 9,672 at the 2020 census and 4,224 households.

Brewer is the sister city of Bangor, on the opposite side of the Penobscot River estuary at the head of navigation, and the two cities are connected by three bridges.

Brewer was settled in 1777 and named after its first settler, Colonel John Brewer, and it broke away from Orrington and was incorporated as a separate town on February 22, 1812, becoming a city on March 30, 1889.

Brewer was famous for brick-making in the 19th century, with 12 to 15 brickyards making 12 million bricks a year by the 1850s, most shipped to Boston, and much of Boston's Back Bay and South End neighborhoods are said to be built of Brewer brick.

Shipbuilding and sawmilling were also major Brewer industries, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the city had a significant ice industry that survives in the Getchell Brothers company.

The Eastern Manufacturing Company opened a pulp and paper mill in South Brewer in 1889 that became the city's largest employer and specialized in fine grades of paper before closing in 2004, and the site has since been redeveloped by the Cianbro Corporation.

The Victorian-style Daniel Sargent House from 1847 in South Brewer is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and Sargent commanded the Penobscot River Drivers company in the 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.

The city's most imposing architectural landmark is the shingle-style First Congregational Church, which stands on a bluff above the Penobscot River overlooking Bangor.

Brewer is the birthplace of Major General Joshua L. Chamberlain, the Civil War hero who later became the 32nd governor of Maine.

In 1900, 17-year-old Dione Polliot of Brewer became the first person to climb to the top of the Eastern Manufacturing Company's 173-foot chimney, a feat reported in The New York Times.