jaysus
07-11-2006, 09:39 AM
FX Matt has been contract brewing some Dock Street beers for some time now, and according to Jack Curtin and the Beer Yard they are ready to open another brewpub in Philadelphia.
July 10, 2006 - Dock Street: Back To The Future
Everything old is new again.
At least, that's what Rosemarie Certo hopes.
Certo has been contract brewing Dock Street beers since she regained control in 2001 of the brand that she and her husband, Jeff Ware, had started as a contract brew in 1987 and developed into a beloved Philadelphia institution as a brewpub in 1989.
The pub was sold in 1999 and run into the ground by its subsequent owners before the new century was two years old. The bottle product, licensed to Henry Ortlieb after the brewery sale, was regained at a sheriff's bankruptcy sale in 2001.
Now, Certo told the Beer Yard tonight, if things go as planned Dock Street will once again become a destination brewery and pub for local beer aficionados.
Certo said a a former firehouse at 50th & Baltimore, just off the University of Pennsylvania campus, will be home to a new Dock Street, where a 15bbl brewhouse will turn out draft beers for its own taps and accounts in both the city and suburbs. The restaurant part of the operation will be wood-burning oven pizza restaurant.
The new site is slightly larger than 5,000 square feet, Certo said, and Dock Street beers will be marketed to beer bars throughout the area via their wholesale system and sold on draft and by the growler on premises. The pizza-oriented restaurant echoes the time when Certo ran a similar spot, the successful Pizza Rustico at 36th and Chestnut on the Penn campus, during the interregnum between her ownership of the brewery.
Certo said that the company retains all of the original recipes and will be recreating a significant portion of the portfolio, "certainly including the Illuminator Doppelbock and our Thomas Jefferson Ale."
Full article here (http://www.beeryard.com/news/default.cfm?action=view&id=741)
July 10, 2006 - Dock Street: Back To The Future
Everything old is new again.
At least, that's what Rosemarie Certo hopes.
Certo has been contract brewing Dock Street beers since she regained control in 2001 of the brand that she and her husband, Jeff Ware, had started as a contract brew in 1987 and developed into a beloved Philadelphia institution as a brewpub in 1989.
The pub was sold in 1999 and run into the ground by its subsequent owners before the new century was two years old. The bottle product, licensed to Henry Ortlieb after the brewery sale, was regained at a sheriff's bankruptcy sale in 2001.
Now, Certo told the Beer Yard tonight, if things go as planned Dock Street will once again become a destination brewery and pub for local beer aficionados.
Certo said a a former firehouse at 50th & Baltimore, just off the University of Pennsylvania campus, will be home to a new Dock Street, where a 15bbl brewhouse will turn out draft beers for its own taps and accounts in both the city and suburbs. The restaurant part of the operation will be wood-burning oven pizza restaurant.
The new site is slightly larger than 5,000 square feet, Certo said, and Dock Street beers will be marketed to beer bars throughout the area via their wholesale system and sold on draft and by the growler on premises. The pizza-oriented restaurant echoes the time when Certo ran a similar spot, the successful Pizza Rustico at 36th and Chestnut on the Penn campus, during the interregnum between her ownership of the brewery.
Certo said that the company retains all of the original recipes and will be recreating a significant portion of the portfolio, "certainly including the Illuminator Doppelbock and our Thomas Jefferson Ale."
Full article here (http://www.beeryard.com/news/default.cfm?action=view&id=741)