Pittsburgh has 90 different named neighborhoods, and a local brewery is making each one of them a beer.
“In June of 2019 we embarked on this project,” said Scott Smith, co-owner of East End Brewery in the Larimer neighborhood. The labels for their You Are Here series feature a colored city map and an arrow pointing to the relevant hood. He and his wife Julie opened East End in 2004. “We are kind of the old farts … back then there were two or three other people making beer in Pittsburgh,” he joked.
The one defining characteristic of the Pittsburgh beer scene? “There is no one giant regional brewery dominating the scene. It’s a pie that’s cut up into a lot of different pieces, and they are all roughly the same size.”…