List of breweries in Pennsylvania
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This is a partial list of breweries in Pennsylvania. In 2017 there are 300 licensed craft breweries in Pennsylvania. 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. 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
The breweries listed here distribute their products beyond their own premises, unless they are designated as brewpubs:
Southeastern Pennsylvania
Animated Brewing Company, Coatesville
Attic Brewing Company, Philadelphia
Be Here Brewing Company, Avondale, founded in 2019
Brewery ARS, Philadelphia
Cartesian Brewing Company, Philadelphia
Concordance Ferments, Hatboro, brewpub, founded in 2024
Dock Street Brewing Company, Philadelphia, founded in 1985
East Branch Brewing Company, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Human Robot Brewing 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
Punch Buggy Brewing Company, Philadelphia, founded in 2020
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
Wissahickon Brewing Company, Philadelphia, founded in 2017
Yards Brewing Company, Philadelphia, founded in 1994
Central Pennsylvania
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
Floating Feathers Brewering Company, Mill Hall, founded in 2021.
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
Hitchhiker Brewing Company, Pittsburgh, founded in 2014
Iron City Brewing Company, Pittsburgh, founded in 1899 (formerly Pittsburgh Brewing Company)
Jones Brewing Company
Lolev Beer, Pittsburgh, founded in 2021
Pennsylvania Brewing Company, Pittsburgh, formed in 1986
Northwestern Pennsylvania
The Brewerie at Union Station, Erie, founded in 2006
Straub Beer, St. Marys, founded in 1872
Erie Brewing Company, Erie, founded in 1994
Kohler Brewing, New Castle, PA
Northeastern Pennsylvania
Lion Brewery, Inc., Wilkes-Barre, founded in 1909 (a.k.a.
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