East End Brewing Company

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East End Brewing Company
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Outdoor patio with beer at East End Brewing
East End Brewing Company
Location147 Julius Street, Pittsburgh (2012-present) [1]
6923 Susquehanna Street, Pittsburgh (2004-2012)
OpenedDecember 2004
Owned byScott Smith
Website www.eastendbrewing.com

East End Brewing Company is a Pittsburgh brewery. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , it is a "force in the local beer market." [2]

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Owner Scott Smith founded the brewery after quitting his job with a consumer products company. [3] The brewery started selling beer in December 2004. [2]

The brewery was originally located in a 4,000-square-foot (370 m2) brewery in the Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh's East End. [2] In 2011, the company began pursuing a move to a 17,000-square-foot building in the nearby Larimer neighborhood, and completed that move in November of 2012. [2] In order to finance the move, Smith sold $1,000 vouchers to customers/investors, which will be redeemable for future beer, merchandise and special access to new brews. [4] The move was completed in November 2012. [1] The new location will allow production to increase from 2,500 barrels brewed per year to 5,000 barrels. [5]

Tap and tasting room at East End Brewing Company Pittsburgh (Larimer) location. East-End-Brewing-Larimer.jpg
Tap and tasting room at East End Brewing Company Pittsburgh (Larimer) location.

In 2008, it sold 700 barrels; [6] in 2010 it sold 1,800 barrels of beer. [2] Sales are primarily done through growlers and kegs sold to local bars. [7] In 2010, sales were expanded to the Pittsburgh Public Market in the Strip District. [7]

As of 2010, there were 28 varieties of beer. [2] Big Hop is the flagship beer. [8] Specialty beer varieties include Big Hop Harvest Ale, [9] and Gratitude barleywine. [10] Smith delivered the bike-themed beer Pedal Pale Ale via bike trailer. [11] Smith commemorated the enactment of a smoking ban within Allegheny County with "Smokestack" smoked porter. [12]

The brewery is closely associated with Pittsburgh. [13] The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cited East End Brewing as an example of Pittsburgh's superior beer culture compared to Philadelphia's. [14] Demand for East End beer spiked after the Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl XLIII. [6]

In 2012, Pittsburgh Magazine named it one of the best breweries in Pittsburgh. [15] It is among the most popular Pittsburgh businesses on Twitter. [16]

April of 2023 brought East End's first satellite location: a taproom in the Mt. Lebanon suburb of Pittsburgh.

Special events

In 2007, after mistakenly ordering a quadruple batch of New York-grown cascade and centennial hops for his Big Hop Harvest beer, Smith shared his hops with local breweries for a "Wet-Hopped Beer Festival" at an East Liberty bar. [17] Church Brew Works, John Harvard's Brew House, Rivertowne Pour House, Johnstown Brewing, Victory Brewing participated by using the excess hops. [17]

In 2008, the company was threatened by high hops prices. [18] After the prices eased in 2009, East End Brewing celebrated with a specially brewed beer called "Out of the Woods." [6]

The brewery was the final stop on the 2012 Venture Outdoors hike; successful hikers were rewarded with a beer. [19] [20]

Pedal Pale Ale Keg Ride

The Pedal Pale Ale Keg Ride is a charity cycling event hosted by East End Brewing Company each year to ceremonially deliver the first keg(s) of the summer seasonal Pedal Pale Ale from the brewery to a location unknown to the participants of the ride. Since its inception in 2006, the number of participants has grown to 600 in 2012. [21]


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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cato, Jason (April 30, 2011). "East End Brewing Co. eyes Larimer expansion". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review . Retrieved September 9, 2012.
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