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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]
The brewery was founded by Dave Hoffman, owner of the now closed Brewmeister home brew store in Cranford, NJ, in the back of his father's, Kurt Hoffman, machine shop. This make Climax New Jersey's oldest microbrewery. Its beers are distributed throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Brooklyn, New York City, Washington DC and Virginia. [1]
Straub Brewery was founded in 1872 by Peter Straub (1850–1913) of Felldorf, Württemberg, Germany, who purchased the Benzinger Spring Brewery from his father-in-law, Francis Xavier Sorg.
First brewed in 1885 (but releasing a new light beer just in 2019), brewing operations for the beer with a mustachioed mascot have since moved out of state, but roughly 90% of the beer is still ...
D. G. Yuengling & Son (/ ˈ j ɪ ŋ. l ɪ ŋ / [1]) established in 1829, is the oldest operating brewing company in the United States. In 2018, by volume of sales, it was the largest craft brewery, sixth largest overall brewery and largest wholly American-owned brewery in the United States.
The Stegmaier Brewery was the largest brewery in northeast Pennsylvania for many years. Stegmaier beer won 8 gold medals at European expositions held between 1911 and 1913, which furthered its reputation for quality. Stegmaier survived prohibition by making near-beer. In 1942 Stegmaier produced 510,000 barrels of beer.
A brewery that was sited here as early as 1855 was established by J. Henry Kalvelage. [3] The Eagle Brewery merged into the Erie Brewing Company in 1899. [2] The Erie Brewing Company closed in 1978. [2] This brewery building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, [1] but was demolished in 2006. [4]
Derby Brewing went out of business in 1938, after which the brewery buildings were used for various purposes. [4] In 2017, the then-vacant property was purchased by a nonprofit organization and renovated to return it to brewery use. The renovated brew house is home to three separate breweries which share a common bottling line and beer garden area.