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The Olympia Brewing Company was a brewery in Tumwater, Washington, near the state capital of Olympia. Leopold Schmidt, a German immigrant from Montana, founded The Capital Brewing Company at Tumwater Falls on the Deschutes River near the south end of Puget Sound. He built a four-story wooden brewhouse, a five-story cellar building, a one-story ice factory powered by the lower falls, and a bottling and keg plant and in 1896, began brewing and selling Olympia Beer. The brew became synonymous with its slogan "It's the Water," though after changing hands multiple times after the mid-eighties and the Tumwater brewery closing in 2003, "It's the Water" became just that - a slogan - as being brewed out of state never quite cut it.