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
Tutto Pils - Italian Pilsner (5%)
Offering our beers to the folks of south Philly while they feast on the best Abruzzese cuisine outside of Italy, Le Virtu has supported our humble little brewery since we started brewing. A single decoction of all Pilsner malt to highlight the sweet grain flavors and dry hopped with German Saphier, it just makes sense we collaborated together on an Italian Pilsner, an incredibly floral lager. Unseen honeysuckle hidden behinid Cypress trees, tropical fruit skins near a machine churning gelato sweetened with apples from a far away land
.25L $3.25 / Tankard $6.50/6pk $14
The Peak - Pilsner (5.75%) (Coming Back Soon)
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
.25L $3.25 / Tankard $6.50/6pk $14
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 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
ALES
Blue Velvet - Wheat Ale (4.3%)
Dedicated to the director that's gotten me through most every winter. A wheat ale fermented on our British yeast and gently hopped, just as it should be. A man speaks backwards in a room with deep red curtains his eyes alternate as plump pink peppercorns or cotton candy grape spheres, the mind like super stretchy pizza dough. A winesap apple suddenly speaks to the tinned fruit cocktail reciting an old allegory of frozen tractor treads in a barren battlefield. One chants out between two worlds, fire walk with me
.25L $3.25 / .5L $6.50
Exhumer - Dry Stout (5.5%)
There is none more black. Brewed with a blend of Marris Otter and Pilsner malts for the base and accentuated with various darker grains then hopped gently in the kettle utilizing East Kent Goldings. For years I've been tortured trying to determine who was the first person to put a whole wintergreen tree inside their home in the name of celebrating the changing of seasons? Such a weirdo. If it were up to me I'd adorn a entire house like the catacombs with scattered little alters sacrificing various things like a jug of date molasses, expensive Belgian chocolates, or a wheel of washed rind Italian mountain cheese
.25L $3.25 / Tankard $6.50
Autobiography - Cream Ale (4.7%)
An all American beer brewed with a touch of corn (cause we're corn people), hopped with American grown Saaz, and fermented with our house Ale yeast. The woods are alive surrounding a giant lake in a perfect geological bowl high in the mountains as two sit on the edge munching on Swiss breakfast breads smeared with marmalade. Upon returning to town exhausted the sip milky green tea as they pass a street vendor gulping young white wine as donuts rise in the frenetic fryer
.25L $3.25 / .5L $6.50
Rich Loves Me - Pale Bitter (5.5%)
In honor of a brother in beer, this ones for you buddy. Brewed with UK grown and malted Golden Promise then hopped excessively with whole cone Centennial in the coolship. As the salty pasta water in slowly drained pithy grapefruit and honeyed herbs are pounded together into an intense paste. Dessert it for the Sultan was the first to be plated: super ripe mangoes from India, oranges that somehow grew from a pinetree, and cherries of the brightest of reds
.25L $3.25 / Tankard $6.50
This Is - IPA (6.5%)
Keeping it hazy with a smattering of flaked wheat malt, then dry hopped with Cryo Idaho 7 and El Dorado. After the lime zested itself it felt naked and covered itselt in a leftover Bubbalicous wrapper. Another mango has just returned from space travel bringing with it the ideas and culture from a far away planet and the science to create new smells
.25L $4 / .4L $7.50/4pk $17
Bourbon Barrel Absent Void - Imperial Stout (12%)
Several months ago we tucked some of our Absent Void into a 14 year Heaven Hill barrel and after nearly four months of resting this treat is ready for you. A profound departure from its original version it drinks like a Bach etude: constantly presenting a litany of point/counterpoint. Heavy oak beams and maple jugs illegally filled with chocolate covered espresso beans are packed into the hull by unknown laborers while longshoremen snack on homemade blueberry muffins with their backs turned
Goblet $9
Theurgist - Mild (4.6%)
A lovely combination of Marris Otter malt from the UK with some darker grains for flavor, color, and body and hopped with gorgeous East Kent Goldings. After hours of an exasperating experience e navigating through a stalagmite maze deep in a dark dank cave the smell of lemongrass being dried over a fire led the participants to freedom, all congratulated with tall old fashioned sodas. A simple meal was had for dinner but it’s how closer was a real hit: a warm dish of pear streusel, followed by luxuriously silky milk chocolate truffles and a small dram of a northern alpine digestif
.25L $3.25 / .5L $6.50
The Highest - Baby IPA (4%)
A slight haze from some malted oats and a lofty head to send your skull sky high by dry hopping with Mosaic and Amarillo. When I close my eyes all I see is the hottest pink with no depth or boundaries; admittedly a medicinal gummy was my lunch paired with a pineapple smoothie. Did I ever tell you my auntie's annual ritual of when the first buds of spring appear she wears candied orange peels as if earrings and takes slices of kiwi and covers them in white chocolate?
.25L $4.25 / .4L $7.50
Cool Up - M&C Pale Ale (6.2%)
Just how it should be, this is just for you. Dry Hopped with Mosaic and Citra, lots of em. We're still waiting for a new fruit to evolve into being, discussing what it may look, smell, and taste like while sipping pineapple waterice cocktails from the shore as perfectly curling pipelines define depth and distance, curving and fading into the horizon, line after line. On the corner a man sells bottles of peach iced tea and roses dipped in cherry syrup as a stranger approaches awkwardly carrying a small pyramid of produce obviously confused and proclaiming "I can't tell if these are cucumbers or melons"
.25L $4 / .4L $7.50/4pk $17
Cu Faoil - Nitro Stout (3.6%)
Brewed with pale malt and a touch of darker grains, this beer pours more red than black as it should. No snakes. No problem. Now we got the hounds so we can consume a plenty. Thank the stars
.25L $3.25 / .5L $6.50
MIXED FERMENTATION
Slender Spindle - Tart Saison with Peaches(6%)
Brewed with a hint of wheat and loaded with our house aged hops to aid in long aging, this saison was originally fermented clean in stainless steel for just a few days and was then blended with many crates of peaches from Three Springs Farm. We let this year's age quite a bit longer than previous years and we're thrilled at how much fruit still comes through but with a more nuanced and balanced palate. This saison is available in 375mL and 750mL bottles as well as on draft, and we recommend trying every kind! That's what's fun about funky beer, every different sized vessel somehow becomes something unique.
Goblet $9
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
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
Island Time - Tart Saison (6%)
Pineapple and Coconut Just like it sounds, fruity in all the tropical ways, easy to drink, super fun.
Goblet $8
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)