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Philadelphia Brewing Company
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Location Philadelphia, PA
Opened2007 (2007)
Key peopleWilliam Barton, Nancy Barton, James McBride
Website www.philadelphiabrewing.com
Active beers
NameType
KenzingerGolden Beer
Walt WitBelgian-Style White Ale
Pennsylvania Pale Ale American Pale Ale
Newbold India Pale Ale India Pale Ale
Joe Coffee Porter Porter
Seasonal beers
NameType
Fleur de LehighGolden Ale
PHL Session IPA India pale ale
SchwarzingerGerman style black lager

Philadelphia Brewing Company is a brewery founded in July 2007 in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, USA.

History

Philadelphia Brewing was founded in July 2007 by William Barton, Nancy Barton and James McBride. It is located in the original 1885 building of the Weisbrod & Hess Oriental Brewing Company, which operated on the site until 1939. [1]

The Bartons are former co-owners of Yards Brewing Company. As partners in that company, and on its behalf, they acquired and renovated the brewery facility in 2001. After a dispute with Yards co-founder Tom Kehoe over the future direction of the company, the pair resigned from Yards in 2007. [2] In early 2007, the Bartons struck an agreement with Kehoe to surrender their interest in Yards in exchange for control of its facility. The Bartons were able to retain their entire staff of Yards employees along with the brewing equipment. (Kehoe had Yards products contract brewed at the Lion Brewery in Wilkes-Barre, PA and would later move to a new facility near the Delaware River.) The Bartons and McBride formally launched Philadelphia Brewing Company beers on March 5, 2008. [3]

Two of the company's most popular beers, Kenzinger and Walt Wit, are available on tap at Citizens Bank Park, the South Philadelphia baseball park where the Philadelphia Phillies play. [4]

Operations

The company brews five year-round beers, several seasonal beers and the occasional one-off recipe. It sources ingredients locally, does not use preservatives and operates as its own distributor. [5]

Approximately 85 percent of Philadelphia Brewing Co.'s sales are in the Philadelphia region with an additional 10 percent in the Pittsburgh area. [6] The company's Pittsburgh offices are the former home of Duquesne Brewing Company. [7]

Products

Year-round beers
Seasonal beers
Inactive beers

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