From: Sean.Smith@cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.beer
Subject: Re: Brews from Pennsylvania?
Date: 1 Oct 92 17:47:18 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


BREWERIES IN PENNSYLVANIA

This is a list, condensed from _The Pittsburgh Press Sunday Magazine_, 1
March 1992, of breweries in Pennsylvania.  My own comments are added in
[brackets].  Asterisks indicate places that are roughly within a two-hour
drive of Pittsburgh.


Adamstown: STOUDT BREWING

Microbrewery/restaurant on Route 272.  [Just off Exit 21 of the PA
Turnpike---follow the signs to Zimm's Diner, which is next door.]
Some bottled brews are available locally; some of these are
contract-brewed
by The Lion.
(215) 484-4387.


Allentown: STROH'S LEHIGH VALLEY 

Big big commercial plant.  Occasional tours.
(215) 395-6811.


Chambersburg: ARROWHEAD BREWING

A microbrewery, opened in December 1991.  Exit 5 off I-81 in
Chambersburg,
Franklin County.   Its Red Feather Pale Ale is available in bottles
locally.
(717) 264-0101.


* Latrobe: LATROBE BREWING

A big commerical outfit (owned by Labatt) that makes Rolling Rock.   No
public tours.
(412) 537-5545.

Philadelphia: DOCK STREET BREWING 

Micro/brewpub.   Bottled items contract-brewed by F.X. Matt in Utica, NY.
(215) 496-0413.


Philadelphia: SAMUEL ADAMS BREWHOUSE

Brewpub/restaurant run by the Philadelphia Brewing Company.
(215) 625-9501.


* Pittsburgh: PITTSBURGH BREWING 

[The only remaining ``old'' brewery that still operates in Pittsburgh.
These folks make Iron City, a cheap American-style beer popular among the
Pittsburgh steelworker crowd, and also contract-brew a number of other
beers, including Sam Adams.  They give free tours, and I'd recommend
going:
you all put on white hats, and an old Pittsburgher who's been with the
brewery for forty years marches you around the actual plant while telling
stories of the old days.   You then return to the hospitality room, for
as
many free samples as you want.  Call ahead for reservations--- (412)
682-7400.]


* Pittsburgh: ALLEGHENY BREWERY

A brewpub (run by the Penn Pilsner people) opened in 1989 in the old
Eberhardt and Ober brewery.      [Allegheny Brewery doesn't bottle
anything,
but does sell kegs of some of their beers to local taverns, such as the
Squirrel Hill Cafe, from whom you can buy a mug of local brew for half of
what they charge at the brewery itself.]
(412) 237-9400.


Pottsville: D.C. YUENGLING AND SON

Claims to be nation's oldest brewery, founded in 1829.   Tours.
(717) 622-4141.


Smithton: JONES BREWING COMPANY

Small commercial brewery; makes bottled Penn Pilsner.  No regular tours,
but
groups can finagle one.
(412) 872-2337


* St. Marys:  STRAUB BREWERY

[Straub's is an independent brewery nestled the forests about two hours
north of Pittsburgh.   They make a light, strong lager from hops, malt,
yeast...  and corn :(.  The brewery has been run by the Straub family
for a
number of generations.  If you go there, you'll notice that all the
reserved
parking places have names like ``J.  Straub,'' ``G. Straub,'' ``P.
Straub,''
etc.   The brewery has an ``Eternal Tap'' which you're welcome to
sample---for free---as long as you wash your glass.  While you're
sampling,
a Straub will probably walk up, pour himself a glass, and start chatting,
maybe give you a tour.  (That's what they did with us, anyway.)   Even
though the town is small, the brewery is pretty far from the main road,
so
I'd recommend calling ahead to get directions.]


Wilkes-Barre: THE LION

A small commercial brewery that makes a variety of off-the-beaten-path
American beers (Stegmaier, Gibbons), and also contract-brews the
occasional
reinheitsgebot beer [such as Trupert's].   No regular tours, but
exceptions 
can be made. 
(717) 823-8801.



Cheers!

--Sean

sean.smith@cs.cmu.edu                         	     school of computer
science
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