List of breweries in Pennsylvania
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This is a partial list of breweries in Pennsylvania. In 2012 there were 134 licensed breweries in Pennsylvania.[1] Only the notable ones are listed here. One of these breweries is America's longest established, D.G. Yuengling & Son. Other nationally known brands that are made in Pennsylvania include 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.
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Breweries
The breweries listed here distribute their products beyond their own premises, unless they are designated as brewpubs:
Southeastern Pennsylvania
- Crime & Punishment Brewing Co., Philadelphia, brewpub, founded in 2014
- Dock Street Brewing Company, founded in 1985
- Lancaster Brewing Company, Lancaster, founded in 2001
- Lion Brewery, Inc., Wilkes-Barre, founded in 1909 (a.k.a. Gibbons Brewery 1943-1974)
- 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)
- Sly Fox Brewing Company, Pottstown, brewpub
- Stoudt's Brewing Company, Adamstown, founded in 1987
- Tired Hands Brewing Company, Ardmore, brewpub
- Victory Brewing Company, Downingtown, brewpub, founded in 1996
- Weyerbacher Brewing Company, Easton, founded in 1995
- Yards Brewing Company, Philadelphia, founded in 1994
- Yuengling (D. G. Yuengling & Son), Pottsville, established in 1829
Central Pennsylvania
- Appalachian Brewing Company, Harrisburg, Gettysburg, Mechanicsburg, Collegeville, Lititz, formed in 1994
- Otto's Pub and Brewery, State College, founded in 2002
- Tröegs Brewing Company, Hershey, founded in 1996
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
- Iron City Brewing Company, Pittsburgh, founded in 1899 (formerly Pittsburgh Brewing Company)
- Pennsylvania Brewing Company, Pittsburgh, formed in 1986
Northwestern Pennsylvania
- Straub Beer, St. Marys, founded in 1872
Defunct breweries and brewpubs
- 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)
- 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
- Independent Brewing Company of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, founded in 1905 as a conglomerate of fifteen breweries; dissolved in 1933
- John F. Betz & Sons, Philadelphia, founded in 1775 as the Robert Hare & J. Warren Peter Brewery, closed in 1939
- Latrobe Brewing Company, Latrobe, founded in 1893, closed in 2006; Rolling Rock is now brewed by Anheuser-Bush in Newark, New Jersey
- Mount Carbon Brewery, Pottsville, founded in 1845 as George Lauer, closed in 1976
- 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;[2][3] closed in 1860[4]
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