Voting opens for best craft brewery in Pennsylvania
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Western Pennsylvania craft beer lovers can show their support for area brewers by voting for them in a statewide contest to determine the best craft brewer in the Keystone State.
A number of breweries from the region were selected to be in the field of the 64 top craft brewers in the state, as determined by Deer Creek Malthouse of Glen Mills in Delaware County, which supplies malt to the craft brewing industry.
Among them: Voodoo Brewing (various locations), Yellow Bridge (Delmont), Aslin Beer (Strip District), Union Brothers (Harmony), Necromancer (Ross), Inner Groove (Verona), Cellar Works (Buffalo Township), Strange Roots (Millvale/Gibsonia), Cinderlands (Strip District), Dancing Gnome (Sharpsburg), Grist House (Millvale), Four Points (Allegheny West), Trace (Lawrenceville), Hitchhiker (Sharpsburg) and Brew Gentlemen (Braddock).
The contest is set up just like the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, where 16 brewers in each of four regions square off to see which makes the Final Four, through the counting of “votes” for that brewer.
To vote, go to the Breweries in PA website at breweriesinpa/com/malt-mania and then click on the link to the four “regions” — Citra, Mosaic, Galaxy and Simcoe — in which the field of 64 are divided.
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Deer Creek said it used activity on the Untapped app to determine which ones are the “best” 64 brewers in the state.
Some breweries drew pretty rough first-round matchups. For instance, Voodoo Brewing faces off against Union Brothers, Yellow Bridge lands Aslin Beer as a first-round opponent, and Inner Groove gets a really tough slot against Brew Gentlemen.
Voting in the first round is open through Sunday. The championship round is set for April 3, just like the day the NCAA will crown a college men’s basketball championship.
Last year’s champ was Pour Man’s Brewing Company from Ephrata.