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Researching Pennsylvania's Brewing

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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	How We Saved the Stegmaier	List of Brewery Preservation Success Stories	The Goundie House in Bethlehem	Deconstructing Dubois	America's First Lager Story at ExplorePAHistory.com	Camden County Historical Society September 23, 2006	ARCHIVE
Products	Philadelphia Brewery Tour	Weisbrod & Hess Brewery: New Home to Yards	Brewery Preservation, the KEG, Spring 2004	Save the Neuweiler Brewery	Demolition Begins at the Old Ortlieb's Brewery	Walking Tour Early Philadelphia Breweries and Taverns	The Making of a Colonial Brewer	Links
Services	Pittsburgh Brewery Tour	Bergdoll Brewery Condominiums	Old Breweries, New Beer by Greg Kitsock, All About Beer May 2003	Archaeology: Christian Springs Brewery	Schmidt's Complex Razed	Beer and Pretzels Exhibit at Historical Society of Berks County through March 15, 2008	Washington Crossing State Park October 19, 2003	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	Rich Wagner Hosts Brewer's Night at Mercer Museum	Washington Crossing State Park October 20, 2002	List of Known Embossed Philadelphia Brewery Beer Bottles
	Luzerne-Lackawanna Brewery Tour	Poth Brewery: Home To Red Bell		Northampton Brewery	Goenner Brewery Razed	New Book Brings Straub Brewing History to Life	Yeast Feast May 11, 2002
	South-Central PA Tour	Scheidt Brewery Now Office Park			Tube City Brewery Razed	Historic Marker Dedication
		Eberhardt & Ober Brewery: Home To Penn Brewery			Hohenadel Brewery in East Falls Razed
		Germania Brewery Now Johnstown Museum
		Bube's Brewery: State's Newest Brewpub

Scene at Festival Pier, Delaware Avenue and Spring Garden St. June 2008.

Upcoming Events:

Thursday September 4, 2008 6:00 PM at Triumph Brewery & Restaurant 117-21 Chestnut St. Barrel tapping “Rauchweizendoppelbock” followed by PowerPoint presentation “Early Lager Brewers in Philadelphia.”

Saturday September 13, 2008 Rich Wagner will conduct a colonial brewing demonstration at Home and Hearth Day sponsored by the Historic Elk Landing Foundation in Elkton, Maryland.

Saturday September 20, 2008 at 2 PM Rich Wagner will give a PowerPoint presentation entitled “Philadelphia Breweries After Repeal” at Philadelphia Brewing Company 2439 Amber St. Kensington, Philadelphia near the intersection of Frankford Ave. and York St.

New on the Web

America's First Lager Story Now Available on ExplorePAHistory.com

Audio and Video Files:

See the latest videos from “The Philadelphia Brewery Tour Revistited” now posted on YouTube.
Temple student Stephen Metzger just completed a short film about Philadelphia breweries past and present which includes an interview with Rich Wagner. He considers this a work in progress, and may be expanded in the future.
Hear interviews with former brewery employees and some radio and TV ads from Sunshine Brewery in Reading from the current exhibit “Beer and Pretzels in Berks” at the Historical Socity of Berks County.
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/

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!

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