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Tired Hands Brewing Company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ17110738 ↗
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Tired Hands Brewing Company is a brew-café founded in 2011 in Ardmore, Pennsylvania by Jean Broillet IV. The current location at 16 Ardmore Ave produces 1,000 barrels per year and its capacity is 150 chairs/seats.

Tired Hands produces their beer in smaller batches and specializes in Western European farmhouse ales as well as American hoppy ales. The food menu includes bread baked onsite, local cheeses, meats, pickled items, and seasonal produce. A second brewpub called the "Fermentaria" was opened later in April 2015, at 35 Cricket Terrace. Tired Hands opened another establishment in the city of Philadelphia, St. Oners, at 2218 Frankford Avenue.

Awards

2016 Semi-Finalist - Outstanding Bar Program

Philadelphia Inquirer Brew-vitational

2014 Winner - Best Saison - Tired Hands HandFarm

2014 Winner - Best Stout - Tired Hands Grateful Monkey Death Trip!

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2015, 2016, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2011. The account is most persuasive where Tired, Hands and Brewing can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tired Hands Brewing Company” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.