Can you believe we’ve been at this for FIFTEEN YEARS?!?!!


This December will be the 15th anniversary of the first time we ever poured an East End beer. That’s kind of crazy to me personally (Scott here), as it means I’ve been at this for more than half of my working adult life #2ndcareer. But I‘m pretty sure this calls for some kind of significant celebration!

As you will see below, we’ve got some really cool stuff planned to fill up our entire anniversary week, celebrating our FIRST FIFTEEN years of beer-soaked awesomeness. So go ahead and block out that whole week of December 10-15 to come spend some time with us, okay?

#PeddlingBigHopSince2004

#FIRST15 Guest Tap Takeover

When we stop and look around a bit, it turns out that this whole place is just lousy with Fifteens… Fifteen years in business, fifteen people working here, fifteen different kinds of EEBC hats for sale. (Alright, this might be a slight exaggeration, but not by much. We like hats!)

We’ve even got fifteen taps on the wall!

So we thought it would be cool to invite the FIRST FIFTEEN beer producers in Allegheny County to run some beer at our place. So for as long as these kegs last, we’ll be running with 100% guest taps.

Here’s the chronological list we’re working from - and a shout-out to Local Beer Historian and all around GOOD BEER fan, Ed Vidunas for the help here:

  1. Penn Brewery

  2. Church Brew Works

  3. Rock Bottom Brewery

  4. East End Brewing*

  5. Hofbrauhaus

  6. Strange Roots Experimental Ales

  7. Red Star Kombucha

  8. Aurochs Brewery

  9. Costar Brewery

  10. Roundabout Brewery

  11. Hop Farm Brewery

  12. Hitchhiker Brewery

  13. The Brew Gentlemen

  14. Grist House Craft Brewery

  15. Spoonwood Brewing Company

A couple general notes to keep in mind:

  • Legally speaking, we can’t fill Growlers with guest beers.

  • If you come in really needing to drink a beer that we brewed here, don’t sweat it. We’ve totally got you covered with a full spread of at least a dozen East End beers in cans and bottles, freshly filled and nicely priced, just like when you have it on tap.

*And for that East End “guest tap”, we’ve got a special treat…

About three years ago, our GOOD FRIENDS down at Maggie’s Farm distilled a batch of our Gratitude Barleywine, and tucked it away in oak to age into whiskey. In collaboration with our in-house soft drink wizards at the Barmy Soda Company, we’re pleased to offer you this pre-mixed cocktail of fresh ginger, lime, simple syrup, and Gratitude whiskey.

Expressing our Gratitude… with some Gratitude?

I don’t know about yinz guys, but when we celebrate around here, we like to do it with BEER! So we’ve put together a whole bunch of beer-type specials so you can take that celebration home with you.

We've been brewing our Gratitude Barleywine with the exact same recipe since the beginning. So it seems fitting to say thanks to you, our GOOD BEER fans, for supporting us throughout these many years by busting out some sweet deals for our anniversary.

All #First15 week, $20 will get you a 4-pack of ANY vintage of our bourbon barrel-aged vintage Gratitude Barleywine in 16oz cans (not pictured above). And $15 (there’s that number again) will get you ANY vintage of our Gratitude Barleywine in 22oz bottles.

But wait… there’s still more!

Feeling SHOPPY this time of year?

Love buying beer, but hate having to decide what kind to get right now?

Or maybe you just want to score something for yourself while shopping for that GOOD FRIEND in your life?

Buy a $100 gift card and get a $15 gift card for FREE, all week during #First15.

Ready to dress up that home draft system?

Grab yourself an authentic EEBC Taphandle for $15 during #First15.

Do you like the way our shirts look when we savagely clamp them up on the barrel stave wall in the taproom like this? Do you want to recreate this look at home?

Shirts, like this slightly wrinkled Fat Gary Nut Brown Ale shirt are just 2 for $15* during #First15, while supplies last.

*Bourbon barrel staves and clamps sold separately.

Since our GOOD FRIENDS at Larder are also behind Salty Pork Bits, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to put a FUNKY pack of mixed fermentation beers together with their charcuterie: Brett Hop, Sacred Tulsi, and Saison La Seconde. Plus a Finocchiona salami and a Leek Ash/Porcini Mushroom salami. $65 for the whole package.

Missing a label or two?

If you’ve been following along with our YOU ARE HERE Neighborhood Beer series, you know that keeping up with the breakneck pace they’ve been coming out requires a good bit of attention! Maybe you’ve missed one or two of those labels along the way? Or maybe you’d just like to land a complete label set of what we’ve covered so far?

Well, we got ya covered. On this #FIRST15 week, we’ll have complete packs of all the labels we’ve done so far, for an in-person suggested cash donation of $5 to Youth Places. This is the same organization we’ve been supporting with the Northview Heights release.

Neighborhood Beer #15

…I was told there would be cake.

As luck would have it, we will be ready to randomly draw the neighborhood for our FIFTEENTH neighborhood in our YOU ARE HERE Neighborhood Beer series… during our #First15 celebration week.

We’ll save this for Thursday, December 12th at 7pm, since that’s when our actually Anniversary lands. And that’s when we’ll cut the cake too.

And of course, we’re capping off our #First15 Anniversary Celebration week in style, with what has become a holiday season tradition around here.

Crafts and Drafts is back, and on Sunday afternoon this time around.

THANK YOU EVERYONE… …for fifteen incredible years of GOOD FRIENDS and GOOD BEER.

We hope to see you ALL here to raise a glass or two with us because, as you may already have heard… without you, none of this would have ever been possible.

Cheers - Scott