This is a partial list of breweries in Pennsylvania. In 2017 there are 300 licensed craft breweries in
Pennsylvania.[1] One of these breweries is America's longest established,
D.G. Yuengling & Son. Yuengling is also the largest craft brewery in the country based on volume of sales.[2] Other nationally known brands that are made in Pennsylvania include
Dock Street Brewing Co.'s Bohemian Pilsner, first brewed in 1986,
Victory Brewing Company's Hop Devil and
Weyerbacher's Merry Monks. Some of these breweries also feature a restaurant or snack bar at their breweries.
Brewpubs in Pennsylvania do not distribute their products beyond the premises.
Breweries
The breweries listed here distribute their products beyond their own premises, unless they are designated as brewpubs:
Reading Brewing Company,
Reading (revived the former trademark of, but is otherwise unrelated to, the original Reading Brewing Company, which closed in 1976)
City Brewing Company,
Latrobe; formerly Latrobe Brewing (the producers of Rolling Rock), now a contract brewer for national brands
Duquesne Brewing Company,
Pittsburgh, founded in 2011 (revived the former trademark of, but is otherwise unrelated to, the original Duquesne Brewing Company, which closed in 1972)
Joseph Potts Ale Brewery, founded 1774 in Philadelphia by Joseph Potts. Purchased 1786 by Henry Pepper, then George Pepper beginning in 1807, then David Pepper in 1836. Robert Smith purchased it in 1845 and the Robert Smith Ale Brewing Co remained open until closed by Prohibition in 1920. [3][4][5]
John F. Betz & Sons, Philadelphia, founded in 1775 as the Robert Hare & J. Warren Peter Brewery, closed in 1939
Point Brewery,
Fort Pitt, founded by
James O'Hara in 1803 on the site of a smaller, pre-existing brewery that had been in existence since at least 1795;[6][7] closed in 1860[8]
Fuhrmann & Schmidt Brewing Company,
Shamokin, began operations in 1854 as the Eagle Run Brewery, bought by H. Ortlieb Brewing Company in 1966, ceased operations in spring 1976