{"id":344,"date":"2016-11-03T21:15:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T01:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/?p=344"},"modified":"2016-11-03T20:57:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T00:57:22","slug":"telling-the-story-of-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/pittsburgh\/telling-the-story-of-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling the story of beer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joe McAllister and Matt Sherwin, two of the people behind the effort to bring Brew: The Museum of Beer to Pittsburgh.<\/p><\/div>\n

If you want a complete history of beer, you’ll need to go back 10,000 years.<\/p>\n

If you want a complete history of beer in the United States, Pittsburgh is as good a place as anywhere to start — after all, Fort Pitt was the home of the first brewery west of the Alleghenies, serving up beer to the troops stationed here.<\/p>\n

That’s part of the thinking behind Brew: The Museum of Beer<\/a>, a national beer museum that a group hopes to bring to Pittsburgh in the next two years.The team, known as The National Beer Museum Development Group, has been busy in recent weeks, unveiling its plans in the Post-Gazette in\u00a0August<\/a> and holding a kickoff party and fundraiser last month.<\/p>\n

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