List of breweries in Pennsylvania explained
This is a partial list of breweries in Pennsylvania. In 2017 there are 300 licensed craft breweries in Pennsylvania.[1] One of these breweries is America's longest established, D.G. Yuengling & Son. Yuengling is also the largest craft brewery in the country based on volume of sales.[2] Other nationally known brands that are made in Pennsylvania include Dock Street Brewing Co.'s Bohemian Pilsner, first brewed in 1986, Victory Brewing Company's Hop Devil and Weyerbacher's Merry Monks. Some of these breweries also feature a restaurant or snack bar at their breweries. Brewpubs in Pennsylvania do not distribute their products beyond the premises.
Breweries
The breweries listed here distribute their products beyond their own premises, unless they are designated as brewpubs:
Southeastern Pennsylvania
- Animated Brewing Company, Coatesville
- Attic Brewing Company, Philadelphia
- Be Here Brewing Company, Avondale, founded in 2019
- Brewery ARS, Philadelphia
- Cartesian Brewing Company, Philadelphia
- Dock Street Brewing Company, Philadelphia, founded in 1985
- East Branch Brewing Company, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
- Evil Genius Beer Company, Philadelphia
- Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant, multiple locations, brewpub, founded in 1996
- Lancaster Brewing Company, Lancaster, founded in 1995
- Love City Brewing Company, Philadelphia
- Neshaminy Creek Brewing Company, Croydon, founded in 2010
- Philadelphia Brewing Company, Philadelphia, founded in 2007
- Reading Brewing Company, Reading (revived the former trademark of, but is otherwise unrelated to, the original Reading Brewing Company, which closed in 1976)
- Separatist Brewing Company, Philadelphia
- Sly Fox Brewing Company, Pottstown, brewpub
- Stoudt's Brewing Company, Adamstown, founded in 1987
- Tired Hands Brewing Company, Ardmore, brewpub
- Triple Bottom Brewing, Philadelphia, brewery, founded in 2019
- Triumph Brewing, New Hope, brewpub, founded in 2003
- Victory Brewing Company, Downingtown, brewpub, founded in 1996
- Weyerbacher Brewing Company, Easton, founded in 1995
- Yards Brewing Company, Philadelphia, founded in 1994
Central Pennsylvania
- Appalachian Brewing Company, Harrisburg, Gettysburg, Mechanicsburg, Collegeville, Lititz, formed in 1994
- Axemann Brewery, Bellefonte, founded in 2020
- Englewood Brewing, Hummelstown, founded in 2020
- Otto's Pub and Brewery, State College, founded in 2002
- Tröegs Brewing Company, Hershey, founded in 1996
- Yuengling (D. G. Yuengling & Son), Pottsville, established in 1829
Southwestern Pennsylvania
- The Church Brew Works, Pittsburgh, founded in 1996
- City Brewing Company, Latrobe; formerly Latrobe Brewing (the producers of Rolling Rock), now a contract brewer for national brands
- Duquesne Brewing Company, Pittsburgh, founded in 2011 (revived the former trademark of, but is otherwise unrelated to, the original Duquesne Brewing Company, which closed in 1972)
- East End Brewing Company, Pittsburgh, founded in 2003
- Fort Pitt Brewing Company, Pittsburgh, 1906-1957
- Hitchhiker Brewing Company, Pittsburgh, founded in 2014
- Iron City Brewing Company, Pittsburgh, founded in 1899 (formerly Pittsburgh Brewing Company)
- Lolev Beer, Pittsburgh, founded in 2021
- Pennsylvania Brewing Company, Pittsburgh, formed in 1986
Northwestern Pennsylvania
Northeastern Pennsylvania
Defunct breweries and brewpubs
- Joseph Potts Ale Brewery, founded 1774 in Philadelphia by Joseph Potts. Purchased 1786 by Henry Pepper, then George Pepper beginning in 1807, then David Pepper in 1836. Robert Smith purchased it in 1845 and the Robert Smith Ale Brewing Co remained open until closed by Prohibition in 1920. [3] [4] [5]
- John F. Betz & Sons, Philadelphia, founded in 1775 as the Robert Hare & J. Warren Peter Brewery, closed in 1939
- Point Brewery, Fort Pitt, founded by James O'Hara in 1803 on the site of a smaller, pre-existing brewery that had been in existence since at least 1795;[6] [7] closed in 1860[8]
- Mount Carbon Brewery, Pottsville, founded in 1845 as George Lauer, closed in 1976
- Fuhrmann & Schmidt Brewing Company, Shamokin, began operations in 1854 as the Eagle Run Brewery, bought by H. Ortlieb Brewing Company in 1966, ceased operations in spring 1976
- Christian Schmidt Brewing Company, Philadelphia, founded as Robert Coutrennay Brewery in 1859, the Christian Schmidt & Sons Brewing Company was sold in 1987 to G. Heileman Brewing Company of La Crosse, Wisconsin
- Duquesne Brewing Company, Pittsburgh (1899–1972)
- Latrobe Brewing Company, Latrobe, founded in 1893, closed in 2006; Rolling Rock is now brewed by Anheuser-Busch in Newark, New Jersey
- Independent Brewing Company of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, founded in 1905 as a conglomerate of fifteen breweries; dissolved in 1933
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Official brewery directory, curated by the Brewers Association.
- Web site: Top 50 Breweries of 2016. March 15, 2017.
- Web site: Robert Smith Ale Brewing Co - PA 534k Old Breweries Information Breweriana Values. www.oldbreweries.com. 22 August 2013 . en-US. 2018-03-05.
- News: Pre-Revolutionary Inns & Ale Houses Of Old Philadelphia - Brookston Beer Bulletin. 2015-09-20. Brookston Beer Bulletin. 2018-03-05. en-US.
- News: Pennsylvania Brewery History - Otto's Pub & Brewery. Otto's Pub & Brewery. 2018-03-05. en-US.
- Book: Dahlinger, Charles W. Pittsburgh: a sketch of its early social life. 78. Point Brewery pittsburgh.. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1916. New York. July 23, 2010.
- Web site: Pittsburgh, circa 1804 -- Painted by George Beck. University of Pittsburgh. July 23, 2010.
- News: Full Pint Brewery makes splash in Pittsburgh beer scene. Cato. Jason. July 15, 2010. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. July 23, 2010. https://archive.today/20120914093437/http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_690352.html. September 14, 2012. dead.
