HOUSE BEERS


LAGERS

 

Skald - Light Lager (4%)
German malt and a single decoction with American grown Saaz Hops, fermented under pressure with our Czech Lager yeast to create natural carbonation. The hills are alive with the various flashes of color from newly sprouted spring flowers, the sight as satisfying as the "pop" from a just-peeled tube of biscuits with a single lemon drop candy dancing from cheek to cheek and tooth to tooth. It may have been from a forgettable distraction, but the freshly cut broad leafed herbs which were intended to be dispersed over creamy polenta found their way atop an undisturbed bowl of flaky wheated cereal endorsed by famous athletic professionals
.25L $3.25 / Tankard $6.50/6pk $12

The Point - Helles Lager (4.5%)
Brewed in more traditional German methods with lower and longer temperature rests, a long and cool fermentation, and hopped with Saphir and Saaz. After driving to nowhere on a gravel road the chosen pull-off is lined with large marigold greens still yet to flower while the skins of sapodilla lie underneath their towering progenitors. In a nearby house a tin of irish oats is left open on the counter, microscopic dust from inside catching the occasional breeze, when hunger wins over and honey is drizzled over a warmed biscuit after a tray of peach danishes were just formed before baking
.25L $3.25 / Tankard $6.50

Stump - Schwarzbier (5%)
A healthy dose of Munich malts bring out the bread like flavors of this beer with enough darker malts to give it that perfect red/black color we all love. Tiny carcasses of pressed grapes liter the tiled cellar floor, burlap bags as tapestries, a sheep skin leather coat while you pick actual ripe starfruit.
.25L $3.25 / Tankard $6.50

Baas - Hammer Lager (5%)
Brewed for those in this racky commonwealth that labor hard and need a beer after work that feeds the soul, mug after mug. A familiar but unknown presence speaks indecipherable Spanish to a young person, three hundred years of bailing hay, shaded limestone thrones for chocolate sorbetto break time
Milk Pour $3.00 / Tankard $6.50

Oktobener - Smoked Marzen (6%)
Fittingly brewed with a blend of Pilsner and Munich maltz and a touch of beechwood smoked barley, a fierce single decoction, then hopped this seasonal treat with our favorite German hop Herbrucker. Having arrived fashionably late to the block party where everyone is holding giant glass mugs, your gaze slowly drifts to the tops of the trees and they become swaying strands of candied rosemary standing tall above vertical Cow Tales. The dreams just keep coming flooding your consciousness with flying white discs of old pharmacy candy as you peel a recently fallen chinotto that somehow smells of your grandmother's spice cupboard
.25L $3.25 / Tankard $6.50

Fest- Festbier (4.75%)
A light yet malt forward expression of the lager all of our mugs should be filled with continuously and ceremoniously this month. Munich and Pilsner malts, a single decoction, and a beautiful bouquet of Hersbrucker and Michigan grown Saaz hops. As the sun eclipses the horizon the first Azaleas open giving an instant flash of pink to an otherwise brown early spring hillside, while not far hot breakfast tea is poured for the one under a blanket watching the morning mist dissipate as if water had just been poured over hot sauna stones. The effort is worth it, burnt and caramelized grapefruit garnishes make a difference, as does the nostalgic comfort of an old wooden floor, just be careful to catch the drips of honey cascading off a graham cracker before they fall all the way to the ground
.25L $3.25 / Tankard $6.50

Kith n Kin - Dinkel Lager (4.5%)
Our brewer’s favorite beer and Pennsylvania’s OG Dinkel Lager. A single decoction with spelt created a golden-hour lager so we hopped it with some house-aged Hersbrucker followed by a dry-hopping with Tettnanger. After gathering a bright bucket of glacier water in a new tin can the precious liquid is heated gently, delicately poured over sencha green tea, later to be enjoyed with crumbly chamomile biscuits. Another lemon curd with its intricate mandala of five spice is placed alongside a tall glass of tangerine juice proudly awaiting your arrival
.25L $3.25 / Tankard $6.50

The Peak - Pilsner (Temporarily Unavailable) (5.75%)
100% Pilsner malt, 100% Michigan grown Saaz hops, a long cool fermentation on our lager yeast. Poured from our Czech side pull faucet. While walking the rows, your fingers held delicately waist height tracing the controus of the grape leaves, crunching white summer flowers below with every step, the resulting whirlwind of fragrance so strong as if a chimera. You find yourself eyes closed and head thrown back, spinning with arms outstretched, your chest as if it is trying to touch the sky
 Milk Pour $3.00 / Tankard $6.50

Concheros - Dark Mexican Lager (5%)
Brewed in collaboration with Team Pistola’s, our cousins in Philly that have always offered great craft beer. A touch of darker malts, 20% flaked maize, gently hopped and served with a lime. The altar has been set with colorful flowers, your costume fits just right, your ancestors are waiting to dance with you
.25L $3.25 / Tankard $6.50


 

ALES

 

ESB - Extra Special Bitter (6%)
Made with all British ingredients, beautiful Marris Otter malt embelished with a sprinkling of crystal 45 and hopped in the ketel and fermenter with Fuggles. We love this. An entire world spinning in the ether, as it does, slowly makes its way into a giant mouth unattached from any other physical or spectral form. "You are becoming butterscotch, embrace a large oak tree while a mighty wind carries the leaves from branch to soil, the cycle must continue!”
.25L $3.25 / Tankard $6.50

Nailed Down .04 - IPA (7.2%)
Our rotating IPA series, #4 features Citra, Sultana and HRC-003 hops.  The flaked wheat and oats give this beer a pillowy mouthfeel with bright tropical notes of ripe peach and mango that cascade over the tongue giving way to the flavor of a pine forest that just got crushed with a grapefruit rainstorm
.25L $5.00 / .4L $8.00

Conductor - Historic Porter
Based on old English recipes researched and posted on the informative and hilarious blog "Shut Up About Barclay Perkins" by Ron Pattinson, we amalgamated our favorites and applied our modern sensibilities to brew up this historic beer. Made with the most beautiful East Kent Golding hops and all English malts. Just milled coffee beans and nibbles of English toffee with one single piece of salted licorice in a wool coat pocket
.25L $3.25 / .5L $6.50


Good Game - Wheat Ale (4%)
Brewed with a large helping of malted wheat and hopped with Saaz and Cascade then fermented with our favorite British yeast. The rain has stopped falling and our photosynthesizing friends are showing their excitemen, nascant young citrus slowly ripens, a pink shining salt plane blinds you momentarily
.25L $3.25 / .5L $6.50

Absent Void - Imperial Stout (11.1%)
This one is for your heart health, like a blanket for your soul, made with malts sourced from the island formerly known as the Queen's land with some additional dark candied sugars from across the Channel. As you descend the stairs still-burning embers remind you of last night's glories, overflowing with whiskey and apple brandy barreled dreams (message!) and an abundance of crumbly cheesecake crusts. It's bread and dessert season, with cinnamon raisin swirls throughout your flan and chocolate covered cherries studded in your yeasted loaf, so let's get all fat and sassy
Goblet $8

Corroborator - Mild (3.75%)
We doughed this puppy in on the cooler side with Marris Otter and enough darker alts to make a beautifully layered Mild. Steep granite domes of mountain tips, a strange owl and his "science" of finding it only takes three licks to get to the center,morels attempting to hide amongst fiddle-heads, gooey medjool dates stare at a wikcer basket containing five seckel pears.
.25L $3.25 / .5L $6.50

Tullamore Dewd -Dry Stout (3.5%)
One of our first and most beloved beers, dedicated to a dear friend and brother. Cancer Sucks. Steaming plum pudding with gooey chopped dates, the most familiar handsome face enjoying apple butter on over-toasted black bread, raising a glass together in an old seaside pub
.25L $3.25 / Tankard $6.50

Concurrent Pathways - West Coast Pale Ale
A blend of pale and pilsner malts with the tiniest addition of crystal malt for an embellished backbone then modestly dry hopped with Cascade, Centennial, and Chinook. Passing through that fresh piney goodness you ascend to the summit breathing in that ridgeline air high above the sequoias stuffing wafers of the (va)nilla type into your gullet. Returning to camp a crowd surrounds a newly discovered deep dark pit left empty for generations that was just filled surreptitiously with marasca cherries as interstellar apples soar overhead and someone, we'll never know who, claims they have seen and smelled the odd offspring of a cantaloupe and a grapefruit and that by gosh we will love them unconditionally for being who they are
.25L $4.25 / .4L $7.50

 

MIXED FERMENTATION

 

Comet Choreography - Brett Saison (5.5%)
Pilsner and spelt malt for the win, lots of Tettnanger hops for the soul, and a slow condition on some funky Brettanomyces for the future. While attempting to reach a formidable wine cellar on the moon one must first find a ride: a horse that's actually a kiwi who snacks on dried pears dusted with chili powder is a great choice. Great mileage. Or you can smash rocks with frozen white grapes hoping to find the jazziest purple ever
.25L $4 / .4L $7

Timeless Space - Peach Saison (5.5%)
This beautiful thing started with Pilsner and Spelt malts, then hopped in the kettle with Hersbrucker and Saaz and we fermented it directly on second use peaches from Frecon Farms. After mascerating our trusty '24 Slender Spindle on fresh peaches we racked that beer out the day we brewed up this puppy and cast the wort directly onto the used peaches allowing the wild and natural yeasts to do the fermentation. Aged one year prior to release. A subtle yet intoxicating aroma of fuzzy fruits, bright acid that lifts the palate, and a super dry finish that makes you want more and more
$8  (Goblet)


Saltarello - Barrel Aged Saison with Nebbiolo Grapes (6%)
Vox Vineti is one of Pennsylvania’s finest producers of thought provoking wines. Nebbiolo, the noble grape of Piedmont that’s responsible for Barolo and Barbaresco, has found a new home in the Vox vineyard. After the Vox team has vinified their Nebbiolo wine we help them press the pomace then bring it back to the brewery and marry a young saison with the pressed fruit for a two month masceration. The resulting liquid was then laid to rest for 16 months in barrels formerly used by Vox. Once deemed ready bottles and kegs were filled, naturally conditioned and matured on the lees for 14 months. A slow process, but patience has its rewards. Also in 750mL bottles, but we recommend trying both as they are the same but somehow so very different!
Goblet $9

Reverse Grass - Dry Hopped Saison (4.7%)
A true joy to make, we are in love with Saison and we hope you are too. Or West Coast Pale Ale, Concurrent Pathways, is dry hopped with a half bag each of Cascade, Centennial and Chinook, so after adding hops to that tank we decided to dump the remaining half into this beauty. A fun beer to make and drink. Lots of fruit, cosmic bubblegum, and a huge citrusy and piney finish
.25L $4.25 / .4L $7.50

 
 

HOUSE BOTTLES

 

Io, Saturnalia Reserve '22 - Aged Sour Holiday Saison (9.5%)
Brewed with a medley of malts, house-aged and European hops and a hint of dark Belgian candy sugar, it was initially fermented on our clean saison yeast but was later introduced with a mixed culture to promote some acidity and funkiness
$18 (750ml Bottle)

Io, Saturnalia Reserve '23 - Aged Sour Holiday Saison (9.5%)
Made in a very similar fashion to last year with a mix of malts and European hops but with a more restrained mixed culture fermentation. This year's shows  delicate tartness and balance with hints of cherries and dried plums, some funky chocolate, and holiday breads that are spiced just right
$18 (750ml Bottle)

Ake - Smoked Grisette w/ Sour Cherries (6%)
Orginally brewed as a smoked Grisette, a saison style from Belgium made with wheat and fermented in stainless steel, we later introduced 300lbs of Montmorency Cherries from the amazing folks at Three Springs Farm. Big notes of aforementioned fruit with a mineraly smokiness, beautiful acidity that rides a big red wave, and a mouthwatering dryness that reminds us of being blissed out mid summer
$18 (750ml Bottle)

Saltarello - Barrel Aged Saison with Nebbiolo Grapes (6%)
Vox Vineti is one of Pennsylvania’s finest producers of thought provoking wines. Nebbiolo, the noble grape of Piedmont that’s responsible for Barolo and Barbaresco, has found a new home in the Vox vineyard. After the Vox team has vinified their Nebbiolo wine we help them press the pomace then bring it back to the brewery and marry a young saison with the pressed fruit for a two month masceration. The resulting liquid was then laid to rest for 16 months in barrels formerly used by Vox. Once deemed ready bottles and kegs were filled, naturally conditioned and matured on the lees for 14 months. A slow process, but patience has its rewards. Also on draft, but we recommend trying both as they are the same but somehow so very different!
$19 (750ml Bottle)