York, Pennsylvania has had several microbreweries. There was York Brewing -- failed -- and Freedom Brewing -- failed -- and the Brick Oven brewpub -- failed -- and several breweries that were planned, discussed, and trumpeted...and never opened. York County hasn't done much better; we're still waiting on Hanover Brewing. We talk about The Curse: opening a brewery in York just doesn't seem to work.
Two days ago, on Tuesday, Jeff Lau took his shot: Mudhook Brewing opened (at 34 N Cherry Lane, York), as reported here. Sounds like opening night was a success. To officially beat The Curse (and by "officially," I mean in my eyes...), Mudhook will have to still be in operation in January of 2013. Best of luck, Jeff and company!
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Mudhook Brewing hopes to beat The York Curse
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You're forgetting the Brick Oven. Had lunch there once...great cheesesteak and a very good pils, but to no avail.
Good luck to Mudhook!
Damn! You're right, I'll add that. Beer was always a blind crapshoot there, but the food was excellent. Pity about that place.
I keep hearing rumors that there was a brewpub in York city, way early on, but never got that confirmed.
I don't think anyone ever beat Red Bell's record, though: their Manayunk brewpub served their first house-brewed beers and closed in the space of a week.
I was going to say a brewery that's named all its beers after fish is probably not going to succeed either, but then I realized I was mistaken, because one of the beers is actually named after worms.
I've seen dumber gimmicks...and it might suit the market.
i like their shtick actually especially since they actually tell you what kind of style you should expect: stout, pale, amber etc makes a lot more sense to me than some esoteric name that has nothing to do with the beer that I have to decipher first .
i like their shtick actually especially since they actually tell you what kind of style you should expect: stout, pale, amber etc makes a lot more sense to me than some esoteric name that has nothing to do with the beer that I have to decipher first .
Hey Lew, You forgot York Brewing. I believe they closed before 2000.
Freedom used the same location. We sold them in Pittsburgh. Lots of low fills and mis-matched bottles.
Ruffed Grouse Stout was theirs.
Tony@Vecenie Dist.
You're right, Tony: I had them as Susquehanna Brewing, but that was the name of one of their beers. They were a pair of engineers from the nuclear industry, as I recall. Yes, Freedom -- the project of a plastic surgeon from Maryland, I think -- took over their building and brewery, and didn't even last 9 months.
I stumbled upon South County Brewing Company in Fawn Grove on the 4th of July, but unfortunately it was closed.
http://www.southcountybrewing.com/southcounty/
I just perused the South County Brewing website, and it's utterly amazing how far I had to dig just to figure out where in heck they ARE. Someone there needs to have a word or three with the website designer.
Sandy...
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/restaurant_website
Yup.
Lew - it's official now. Mudhook is still in business and is doing well. As a beer-blogging Yorker, that makes me very happy. I believe that Mudhook may have paved the way for some other success stories: Liquid Hero, South County, and Crystal Ball Brewing. I think there's also another brewery in the works (St. Boniface). We've also got some good taprooms now: Cobblestones (over 100 on tap) and Holy Hound (30 on tap). Lots of good stuff going on in York.
If you're interested, you can read my most recent post about Mudhook breaking "The York Curse" at http://justinsbrewreview.blogspot.com/2013/01/mudhook-brewing-beats-york-curse.html. Cheers!
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