Brewery
Date and time reviewed: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:58:35 EST
Overall Score: 90.0
Selection: 4.5 | Service: 4.5 | Atmosphere: 4.5 | Food: 4.25
Reviewer: Curmudgeon
Roy PItz.
Not one guy but two; friends since elementary school, fellow graduates of the prestigious Siebel Brewing Institute, born & raised in Chambersburg, 30 miles-ish from Gettysburg and beer geeks from the get-go.
Their brewery resides in a 100+ year old brick warehouse that’s hard, HARD, to find…but find it!
It’s a joy!
Your GPS tells you to turn right (or left) on to 3rd street….except you can’t. There is no turn there. There are houses there. You gotta go around…to find Roy Pitz Avenue!
It’s a 20 barrel system, solar heated with un-pasteurized and un-filtered beer distributed throughout parts of the mid-Atlantic area.
Artwork is by a local & very unique, impressive.
The brewpub (Yes, they serve food and quite a good, extensive menu!) is all brick and pine with an old-time, rustic feel.
My wife Persimmon and I (indulging our quest to find out-of-the-way breweries and brewpubs on our year-long journey across the USofA) tried the Belgian Strong (delicious!) and Barleywine (not enough fruit flavor – needs to mature a bit longer) and listened to the bartender (Don) tell us that he agreed, that the Belgian was “flying” out of the tap and people kept clamoring for the barley wine aging in Turkey Whiskey barrels!
IPA, Maerzen, Shwartzbier, Blonde and Brown round out a wide variety of brews.
Acoustic music on Thursday and Saturday nights…food prices are very reasonable ($7 for 3 sliders)….parking…outside beer “garden”…good people with good conversation….
Yep…Roy Pitz has it all together.
I mean, c’mon man!! To get the street you work on named for you???
That’s doing something right!!
Source:Roy Pitz Brewing Company