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Philadelphia Brewing Company is a
brewery A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of b ...
founded in July 2007 in the
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neighborhood of
Philadelphia Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ...
, USA.


History

Philadelphia Brewing was founded in July 2007 by William Barton, Nancy Barton and James McBride. It is located in the original 1885 building of the Weisbrod & Hess Oriental Brewing Company, which operated on the site until 1939. The Bartons are former co-owners of
Yards Brewing Company Yards Brewing Company is a craft brewery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, specializing in ales, particularly those in the Beer in England, English tradition. In 1994 friends Tom Kehoe and Jon Bovit established Yards after producing their own home ...
. As partners in that company, and on its behalf, they acquired and renovated the brewery facility in 2001. After a dispute with Yards co-founder Tom Kehoe over the future direction of the company, the pair resigned from Yards in 2007. In early 2007, the Bartons struck an agreement with Kehoe to surrender their interest in Yards in exchange for control of its facility. The Bartons were able to retain their entire staff of Yards employees along with the brewing equipment. (Kehoe had Yards products contract brewed at the Lion Brewery in Wilkes-Barre, PA and would later move to a new facility near the Delaware River.) The Bartons and McBride formally launched Philadelphia Brewing Company beers on March 5, 2008. Two of the company's most popular beers, Kenzinger and Walt Wit, are available on tap at
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, the
South Philadelphia South Philadelphia, nicknamed South Philly, is the section of Philadelphia bounded by South Street to the north, the Delaware River to the east and south, and the Schuylkill River to the west."." ''City of Philadelphia''. Retrieved November 8, ...
baseball park where the
Philadelphia Phillies The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia. The Phillies compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) East Division. Since 2004, the team's home stadium has ...
play.


Operations

The company brews five year-round beers, several
seasonal beer A seasonal beer is a beer that is typically brewed during or for a particular season, holiday or festival period. Many breweries produce seasonal beers. Seasonal beers may be produced when fresh ingredients are available during various seasons, p ...
s and the occasional one-off recipe. It sources ingredients locally, does not use preservatives and operates as its own distributor. Approximately 85 percent of Philadelphia Brewing Co.'s sales are in the Philadelphia region with an additional 10 percent in the Pittsburgh area. The company's Pittsburgh offices are the former home of
Duquesne Brewing Company The Duquesne Brewing Company was a major brewery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from its founding in 1899 until its dissolution in 1972. The brand was revived under the name Duquesne Brewing Company in 2008, in order to re-establish the beer in We ...
.


Products

;Year-round beers * Kenzinger ( German Pilsner) * Newbold IPA ( American IPA) * Pennsylvania Pale Ale ( American Pale Ale) * PHL session IPA ( American IPA) * Walt Wit (
Witbier Wheat beer is a top-fermented beer which is brewed with a large proportion of wheat relative to the amount of malted barley. The two main varieties are German and Belgian ; other types include Lambic (made with wild yeast), Berliner Weisse (a ...
) ;Seasonal beers * Fleur de Lehigh ( Belgian Pale Ale) * Joe Coffee Porter ( American Porter) * Kenz O'Lantern (
Pumpkin Ale Pumpkin ale is a popular style of beer in the United States. Pumpkin ale may be produced using pumpkin flesh in combination with malt or other more typical beer grains as a portion of the mash bill, contributing fermentable sugars to the wort. It ...
) * Harvest from the Hood ( Fall Seasonal Ale) * Winter Wünder ( Winter Seasonal Ale) * Shackamaximum (
Imperial Stout Stout is a type of dark beer that is generally warm fermented, such as dry stout, oatmeal stout, milk stout and imperial stout. Stout is a type of ale. The first known use of the word "stout" for beer is in a document dated 1677 in the E ...
) * Kilty Pleasure ( Scotch Ale) ;Inactive beers * Broadcaster Brown Ale ( American Brown Ale) * Engine 1892 Market Stout ( American Stout) * Bitter Canadian IPeh? ( American IPA) * BiBerry Ale ( Seasonal Fruit Beer) * Philly'z Navidad (
Lager Lager (; ) is a Type of beer, style of beer brewed and Brewing#Conditioning, conditioned at low temperature. Lagers can be Pale lager, pale, Amber lager, amber, or Dark lager, dark. Pale lager is the most widely consumed and commercially availab ...
) * Row House Red (
Amber Ale Pale ale is a golden to amber coloured beer style brewed with pale malt. The term first appeared in England around 1703 for beers made from malts dried with high-carbon coke, which resulted in a lighter colour than other beers popular at th ...
)


See also

* List of breweries in Philadelphia * List of breweries in Pennsylvania *
Beer in the United States In the United States, beer is manufactured in breweries which range in size from industry giants to brew pubs and microbreweries. The United States produced 196 million barrels () of beer in 2012, and consumes roughly of beer per capita a ...


References

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External links


Official website
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