{"id":320,"date":"2016-09-01T20:15:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T00:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/?p=320"},"modified":"2017-02-20T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T20:00:09","slug":"bringing-new-beer-to-the-steel-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/allegheny\/bringing-new-beer-to-the-steel-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing new beer to the Steel City"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shane Lohman understood\u00a0Pittsburgh Craft Beer Envy — the knowledge that there are dozens of labels we can’t get readily available just over the state line in Ohio — better than most.<\/p>\n

As a craft beer lover, Mr. Lohman knew firsthand the beers and breweries he couldn’t get here. And as the owner of a retail distributor — Lohman’s Beer<\/a> in Wexford — he suspected that some of those breweries would do very well once they got started.<\/p>\n

So Mr. Lohman did something about it. He sold his retail business to his father — Pennsylvania’s wholesale licensees cannot also hold retail distribution licenses — tracked down an importation license — one that would allow him to bring new labels into the state — found a warehouse in Lawrenceville and opened Steel City Beer Wholesalers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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