• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Advertise
  • About Craft Brewing Business

Craft Brewing Business

Professional Insight, Unfiltered

  • News
  • Business & Marketing
  • Ingredients & Supplies
  • Packaging & Distribution
  • Equipment
  • Webinars & White Papers
  • COVID-19

Pittsburgh’s Grist House to expand into a Cold War era missile command center

January 8, 2019Chris Crowell

Grist House expansion
Brews away!

Being Cleveland-area born and raised, I have a deep, illogical hatred for the city of Pittsburgh, but I’ve been forced to call a truce because of the city’s awesome craft beer scene.

Two things stand out most when I think of Pittsburgh breweries. One is creativity. The Millvale neighborhood’s Strange Roots Experimental Ales BLEW MY MIND with a creative, delicious and inspiring 21 percent ABV beer that somehow avoided tasting like turpentine. The other is the city’s repurposed brewery locations. Pittsburgh is an older, hilly, densely packed city, so space is at a premium. I swear they have repurposed every church in town into a place to make and drink beer, a decision I truly respect.

The aforementioned Millvale neighborhood is also home to the popular Grist House. Every time I’ve been there it has been obscenely packed with people — like, terrible-towel-waving levels of obscenity. The original location is no longer enough to contain its demand, and the location it found to spread its wings is worth some attention:

Yes, Grist House Craft Brewery is expanding into a 55,000-sq-ft building that once served as the Nike Missile Command Center during the Cold War. There’s no timetable set for completion, but the plan is for it to become the brewery’s main production facility, featuring a large taproom and retail space along with an extensive barrel-aging program.

For more details on the building, check out this cool interactive site the brewery launched to announce the news.

wasatch brewery
Wasatch Brewery’s Salt Lake City Airport spot opens this month
craft-cafe
Wastach and Squatters announce new airport locations as their Salt Lake City Craft Café opens
warped-wing
Ohio’s Warped Wing Brewing opens new barrel-aging, smokery, test pilot brewery
creature-comforts
Avengers: Endgame director partners with Georgia’s Creature Comforts Brewing on new Los Angeles brewery

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Primary Sidebar

Latest News

  • Portland Cider Co. donates $12,500 to Hunger-Free Schools
  • Penguin City Beer adds a tenant (first black, female-owned ciderhouse in Ohio)
  • Craft Beer Consumer Habits in February 2021: Are on-site attitudes changing?
  • Watch: Magliner’s Powered Lifting Hand Truck makes moving kegs quick and effortless

Sign up for our newsletter

unsubscribe from list

Most Popular Today

Recent Features

  • craft beer consumer tastesCraft Beer Consumer Habits in February 2021: Are on-site attitudes changing?
    February 24, 2021
  • No and low alcohol beer grew 30+ percent last year, now enjoy some big haps in the NA beer sector
    February 23, 2021
  • How to Seduce a Distributor: The importance of branding, common misconceptions and automatic disqualifiers
    February 22, 2021
  • I would totally sit in a hot tub of hops and drink chill pints at this new beer spa in Denver
    February 18, 2021
  • truly hard seltzer‘Truly’ crushing it: Boston Beer nets over $1.7 billion in 2020 revenue
    February 18, 2021
  • Wholesaler Updates: Stone Distribution expands into former AB Inbev warehouse (news on Urban South, Wild Leap, Hairless Dog and lots more)
    February 17, 2021

Footer

  • Email Newsletter Sign Up
  • About Craft Brewing Business
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise on Craft Brewing Business
  • Media Kit Download
  • Privacy and Terms

© 2021 · CBB Media LLC

Continue ...

sponsored by