Pennsylvania beer Penna Brewery Historians Brewery Architecture Brewing History Industrial Archeology Historical Tours Homebrewing Books Prohibition Breweriana linkstreet brewery tours rich wagner rich g microbrewing microbreweries homewingdochter brewerytown collectableser5

Pennsylvania

Brewery Historians

Researching

Pennsylvania's Brewing Heritage

Since 1980

(this site best viewed with mozilla firefox)

SITE MAP

PA Brewery Historians	Brewery Tours	PA Preservation	U.S.A. Preservation	Possible Projects	Sad But True	Recent	Colonial Brewing	Resources
More About Us	Philadelphia Brewery Tour Revisited YouTube Videos	Germania Brewery Now Johnstown Museum	List of Brewery Preservation Success Stories	The Goundie House in Bethlehem	Deconstructing Dubois	Conestoga Township Historical Society hosts colonial brewing demonstration July 18, 2009	Carolyn “Beer Fox” Smagalski reports on Pumpkin Ale brewed at Peter Wentz Farmstead on October 10, 2009	ARCHIVE
Products	Philadelphia Brewery Tour	Remnants of Goenner Brewery Now Art Works in Johnstown	Brewery Preservation, the KEG, Spring 2004	Save the Neuweiler Brewery	Demolition Begins at the Old Ortlieb's Brewery	Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab Visits Brewerytown April 2009	Mercer FolkFest 05-10-09 Pics North Penn Reporter Pics	Links
Services	Pittsburgh Brewery Tour	Weisbrod & Hess Brewery: New Home to Philadelphia Brewing Co.	Old Breweries, New Beer by Greg Kitsock, All About Beer May 2003	Archaeology: Christian Springs Brewery	Schmidt's Complex Razed	Chronology of Technology of Philadelphia's Brewing Industry Exhibit at Art in the Age March 2009	Camden County Historical Society September 23, 2006	Using American Breweries II to Date Bottles
Order Form	Lehigh Valley Brewery Tour	Class & Nachod Brewery On Temple's Campus		Kaier's Brewery, Mahanoy City	E. Robinson's Sons Brewery Razed	History Brews and Blooms 35^th Anniversary issue of PA Heritage Winter 2009	The Making of a Colonial Brewer	List of Known Embossed Philadelphia Brewery Beer Bottles
Contact	Luzerne-Lackawanna Brewery Tour	Bergdoll Brewery Condominiums		Northampton Brewery	Brew House of the Goenner Brewery Razed	America's First Lager Story at ExplorePAHistory.com	Washington Crossing State Park October 19, 2003
	South-Central PA Tour	Scheidt Brewery Now Office Park			Tube City Brewery Razed	Remembering Charlie Lieberman: America's Oldest Brewmaster	Washington Crossing State Park October 20, 2002
		How We Saved the Stegmaier			Hohenadel Brewery in East Falls Razed	Walking Tour Early Philadelphia Breweries and Taverns	Yeast Feast May 11, 2002
		Eberhardt & Ober Brewery: Home To Penn Brewery				Beer and Pretzels Exhibit at Historical Society of Berks County through March 15, 2008
		Bube's Brewery:				New Book Brings Straub Brewing History to Life
						Historic Marker Dedication

Upcoming Events:

Saturday November 14 and Sunday November 15, 2009 Rich Wagner will be at each session of the Winterfest and presenting on “Craft Brewing in North America” and “Craft Brewing in Philadelphia.”
On Saturday November 21, 2009 at 2 PM at Philadelphia Brewing Company Rich Wagner will give a presentation entitled “The Chronology of Technology of Philadelphia's Brewing Industry” which will provide an overview of three centuries of brewing in the Quaker City.

New on the Web:

Audio and Video Files:

Temple student Stephanie Ramirez and her group interviewed Rich Wagner on the significance of Brewerytown, Lager Beer and Lager Beer Vaults in and around Fairmount Park as part of a project for Temple's Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab. They've been posted to YouTube and can be viewed at the following links:
Engel & Wolf's brewery at Fountain Green
Bergdoll Brewery
Bergdoll workers' houses on Newkirk St.
Lager Beer Vaults in and near Fairmount Park

Hear radio interviews with former workers and ads from Sunshine and Reading breweries.

“Creatively Speaking” (Temple University radio WRTI 90.1 FM) is a 30 minute program, Rich's interview is the third of four seven minute segments. Creatively Speaking December 13, 2009. Tom Keels on Brewing in Philadelphia, past and present.
Sue Henry's 47 minute documentary: “Beer Gardening in Northeastern PA” aired on WILK 980 AM in October 2007. The show includes interviews with Rich Wagner, who drove around for a day showing Sue some of the old breweries of the Wyoming Valley, Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. Also included is her tour with the Lion Brewery's Leo Orlandini and a visit with local breweriana collector Al Kogoy in his basement brewery musuem. Al supplied some vintage radio ads dating back to the fifties and sixties from the region's breweries.
Hear Radio Rick Spector interviewing Rich Wagner on The Philadelphia Brewery Tour Revisited, aired on the Milestones Radio Show, July 29, 2006 on 1340 AM WHAT Philadelphia!

Colonial Brewing Demonstration Now on YouTube:

Writer/Film maker Jeff Linkous created a video entitled Ancestral Ale – Brewing in Colonial America from the Rich's colonial brewing demonstration at the Camden County Historical Society last fall. Check out his blog: http://beerstainedletter.blogspot.com/

Scene at Festival Pier, Delaware Avenue and Spring Garden Street September 2, 2008.

Now Available:

Text from center of poster, which contains 75 brewery ads:

Sources: 1887 newspaper clippings from Larry Handy’s and signs from Don Fink’s Philadelphia breweriana collections; Official Program of German Day 1892 and Geschichte des Nordoestlichen Saengerbundes from the German Society of Pennsylvania; Souvenir of the 60^th Stiftungsfest of the Schützen Verein from the Fetzer collection; Official Souvenir Program of the Labor Day Parade and Picnic 1905 published by the Central Labor Union of Philadelphia and Vicinity; Official Program of Founders’ Week Being the 225^th Anniversary of Philadelphia 1683-1908 and Dunlop & Clarke’s Official Liquor License Directory of Philadelphia and Principal Cities and Towns of Pennsylvania 1890-91 from Jim Freeman’s collection. This composite directory amply illustrates the fact that Philadelphia was One Big Brewerytown!

Site last updated November 18, 2009

This site is recognized as:

hits since 2/26/09