the Calm Before the Storm: Pittsburgh Brewing (Lebanon, Munhall: move to, bars)

[h_curtis]

Originally Posted by Aqua Teen Carl

This is why we can't fill non-East End Growlers here... - East End Brewing Company

There is the difference. ALL other places have a regular liquor license and East End doesn't. If you have growlers of a different company and want East End Beer you can get it at Beer Nutz on Freeport Road. There are probably other places as well.

[Aqua Teen Carl]

Originally Posted by h_curtis

There is the difference. ALL other places have a regular liquor license and East End doesn't. If you have growlers of a different company and want East End Beer you can get it at Beer Nutz on Freeport Road. There are probably other places as well.

According to that document, you must be a brewpub (meaning you have to brew your beer on-site and serve food) in order to fill growlers from other places. That's right from the horse's mouth, places like the one you listed are not brewpubs and are acting illegally. Which in my opinion they are totally justified in doing since these M.C. Escher-eque laws are so ridiculous.

[greg42]

Originally Posted by Aqua Teen Carl

According to that document, you must be a brewpub (meaning you have to brew your beer on-site and serve food) in order to fill growlers from other places. That's right from the horse's mouth, places like the one you listed are not brewpubs and are acting illegally. Which in my opinion they are totally justified in doing since these M.C. Escher-eque laws are so ridiculous.

That document pertains specifically to East End's situation. Since they already brew beer, if East End gets a brewpub license then they could refill other growlers.

It does not necessarily follow that it means that other places with the cafe-type licenses operating as bottle shops (I don't know all the classes of license, but I know the bottle shop places are typically operating with something in the restaurant class and not the bar class) are also not legally allowed to refill other growlers. That may in fact be true, but the letter to East End would not be conclusive for those other scenarios.

[pman]

Originally Posted by greg42

That document pertains specifically to East End's situation. Since they already brew beer, if East End gets a brewpub license then they could refill other growlers.

It does not necessarily follow that it means that other places with the cafe-type licenses operating as bottle shops (I don't know all the classes of license, but I know the bottle shop places are typically operating with something in the restaurant class and not the bar class) are also not legally allowed to refill other growlers. That may in fact be true, but the letter to East End would not be conclusive for those other scenarios.

there are a handful of bottle shops that I've been to that fill growlers though I don't know what class of license. this would be one small part of the law to change, allow breweries to sell growlers without any additional licensing. (not to mention the right to self distribute as they choose)

[pman]

Mead is pouring from the Laurel Highlands Meadery in Greensburg
might have to swing by piper's to try it out

[LEFT]That's basically how Piper's Pub owner Drew Topping heard about the stuff.
He found it to be as good as he'd heard it is. "I thought I didn't like mead. I was like, 'Wow, I can really enjoy this.' " Priced at a wine-like $6.50 for a 6-ounce pour, the traditional has been "very well received" by his customers, too, many of whom know mead from abroad.

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[Aqua Teen Carl]

Originally Posted by pman

Mead is pouring from the Laurel Highlands Meadery in Greensburg
might have to swing by piper's to try it out

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Oh nice, a local mead brewer! I'm not the biggest fine of mead (I've only had it once in Ireland) but I'd be willing to give this a try. Also if anyone is interested in making it at home it's extremely easy and dirt cheap (unless you're buying local honey).

[pman]

mmm...local honey

[Aqua Teen Carl]

I was going to make mead last summer but then decided not to because I didn't like it last time. Instead I used some of the honey I bought from a local farmer in a Honey IPA I brewed. It pretty much ferments out completely but that does raise the ABV quite a bit.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by pman

Mead is pouring from the Laurel Highlands Meadery in Greensburg
might have to swing by piper's to try it out

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Sweet. (pardon the pun)

[pman]

Jones and Duke brewers vying for label rights of Fort Pitt beer