For breweries with multiple locations, we've organized those by the location that is closest to the city center, even if the original and/or largest taproom is further away. All breweries are within a roughly 60-minute drive of the city. Within each section below, breweries are organized by closest to the city to furthest away. These are going to be recurring themes in the discussion below.

In our experience, most get significantly better over time such that we are due for a revist on several featured for that reason alone. New breweries tend to fall into these more than established ones as they are still working on finding their footing and styles. Overall, our biggest dislikes in the craft beer world (Pittsburgh beer or otherwise), aside from west coast IPAs, are weak or inbalanced flavors.ĭo not confuse this with session or light ales that are meant to be this way, we mean beers that simply fall flat on the flavors that are promised or are horribly one-sided. So suffice it to say, we'll drink almost anything. On the dark beer front Jeremy hits those hard and loves ones with aggressive flavor notes like chocolate or coffee. We tend to shy away from west coast IPAs as we think they are far too bitter, and Angie is not super fond of malty ales. We have a love affair with all things wild and sour, and have recently started to enjoy hazy New England IPAs and DIPAs.

We drink a wide variety of beers and have a strong preference for European brews like German Hefeweizens and Belgian Tripels. Before we jump into sharing our thoughts on dozens upon of breweries, we thought it is important first that you understand our taste in beers as all palates (and therefore subsequent reviews) will be different.

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