List of breweries in Pennsylvania

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 edit

The breweries listed here distribute their products beyond their own premises, unless they are designated as brewpubs:

Southeastern Pennsylvania edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

The Brewerie at Union Station, Erie, founded in 2006
Straub Beer, St. Marys, founded in 1872
Erie Brewing Company, Erie, founded in 1994

Northeastern Pennsylvania edit

Lion Brewery, Inc., Wilkes-Barre, founded in 1909 (a.k.a. Gibbons Brewery 1943-1974)

Defunct breweries and brewpubs edit

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

References edit

^ "Official brewery directory, curated by the Brewers Association".
^ "Top 50 Breweries of 2016". March 15, 2017.
^ "Robert Smith Ale Brewing Co - PA 534k | Old Breweries Information | Breweriana Values". www.oldbreweries.com. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
^ "Pre-Revolutionary Inns & Ale Houses Of Old Philadelphia - Brookston Beer Bulletin". Brookston Beer Bulletin. 2015-09-20. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
^ "Pennsylvania Brewery History - Otto's Pub & Brewery". Otto's Pub & Brewery. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
^ Dahlinger, Charles W (1916). Pittsburgh: a sketch of its early social life. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 78. Retrieved July 23, 2010. Point Brewery pittsburgh.
^ "Pittsburgh, circa 1804 -- Painted by George Beck". University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved July 23, 2010.
^ Cato, Jason (July 15, 2010). "Full Pint Brewery makes splash in Pittsburgh beer scene". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved July 23, 2010.

External links edit

[1] "Official brewery directory, curated by the Brewers Association".

[2] "Top 50 Breweries of 2016". March 15, 2017.

[3] "Robert Smith Ale Brewing Co - PA 534k | Old Breweries Information | Breweriana Values". www.oldbreweries.com. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 2018-03-05.

[4] "Pre-Revolutionary Inns & Ale Houses Of Old Philadelphia - Brookston Beer Bulletin". Brookston Beer Bulletin. 2015-09-20. Retrieved 2018-03-05.

[5] "Pennsylvania Brewery History - Otto's Pub & Brewery". Otto's Pub & Brewery. Retrieved 2018-03-05.

[6] Dahlinger, Charles W (1916). Pittsburgh: a sketch of its early social life. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 78. Retrieved July 23, 2010. Point Brewery pittsburgh.

[7] "Pittsburgh, circa 1804 -- Painted by George Beck". University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved July 23, 2010.

[8] Cato, Jason (July 15, 2010). "Full Pint Brewery makes splash in Pittsburgh beer scene". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved July 23, 2010.

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