Map of Pennsylvania highlighting Lancaster County (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Next May or so, Matt Keasey will be able to take his foot off the proverbial brake.
That’s when Keasey will no longer need to ration how much of his Spring House Brewing beer he sells to his wholesale distributors.
By then, Spring House Brewing’s new city brewery and brew pub will be operational, replacing a smaller brewery in Conestoga.
“It’s difficult,” said Keasey, the founder, brewmaster and co-owner.
Chocolate Kiss streetlight on Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Editor’s note: Great publicity for Hershey, Pennsylvania from the Philadelphia Inquirer!
A giant Hershey bar brushed past me, waved, and stepped onto the escalator – and I’ll admit I did a double take. It was morning. Hadn’t had my coffee. And the prospect of breakfasting with a cast of human-sized Kit Kat bars and York Peppermint Patties at the Hershey Lodge was only just coming into focus.
Of course there were walking Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups here: Central Pennsylvania’s cocoa capital, a playland of amusement rides, endless sweets, and candy-themed attractions that run straight through the holidays, is where every kid’s chocolate fantasies can almost come to life.
The possibility, though, that there might now be something just as wonderful for the grown-ups to eat and drink around Hershey – Craft beer! Artisanal charcuterie! Genuine country cooking! – would be my most enduring double take from this family trip.
Never would I have guessed such a thing possible from our last visit eight years ago, when we found little more than a soulless gallery of national chains.
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Troy Reynard spoke over the pop of nail guns, buzzing of saws and clunking of shovels as he pointed to bare joists, weak beams and a battered and pocked terrazzo floor.
The Mount Vernon building at 542 Northampton St. in Easton has weathered the ages as a boarding house, hotel, bar, restaurant and, according to legend, a popular prohibition-era brothel. To Reynard, the Mount Vernon is more than the ghosts of past, faded incarnations. He plans to make a living out of the old beauty.
“This is our big thing,” said Reynard, 48, of Forks Township.
He, his wife, Kathy, and partners Brad and Judy Nelson, under the moniker Vagabond Properties, plan to pour much of their savings into the landmark building and create Two Rivers Brewery, the city’s first micro brew pub since Weyerbacher moved into the industrial park on the South Side more than a decade ago.
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