{"id":294,"date":"2016-07-07T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/?p=294"},"modified":"2016-07-07T18:10:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T22:10:56","slug":"east-end-finds-a-new-home-in-the-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/pittsburgh\/east-end-finds-a-new-home-in-the-strip\/","title":{"rendered":"East End finds a new home in the Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When the original Pittsburgh Public Market opened in the Smallman Street produce terminal in 2010, East End Brewing<\/a> was there. And when the market moved to a larger space on Penn Avenue three years later, East End went along for the ride.<\/p>\n

But even before that iteration of the market shut down earlier this year, East End’s Scott Smith had started to poke around the Strip District for a space better suited to what his presence in the market had become. Originally conceived as a spot to fill growlers with fresh East End beer, the Penn Avenue version became a de facto taproom, especially once the state’s rules governing breweries and retail sales of pints changed a couple years ago. On weekends in particular, the corner of the market occupied by the “growler shop” turned into something that looked an awful lot like a bar.<\/p>\n

“It was a great spot to fill growlers,” Mr. Smith said of the Penn Avenue spot. “It wasn’t a great taproom.”<\/p>\n

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