{"id":394,"date":"2017-03-10T10:46:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T15:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/?p=394"},"modified":"2017-03-10T10:48:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T15:48:29","slug":"pittsburgh-beer-in-playa-del-carmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/international\/pittsburgh-beer-in-playa-del-carmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh beer in Playa del Carmen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve noticed a serious lack of palm trees in the Pittsburgh beer scene.<\/p>\n

That’s not the case in Playa del Carmen, a fast-growing city on the coast in Mexico’s Riviera Maya region; in fact, there are several palm trees just outside the front door of Carmen Beer Co.<\/a>, the city’s first craft brewery.<\/p>\n

The other cool part? Carmen Beer Co. happens to be owned and operated by a Pittsburgh native. In his travels as a beer judge, Jeffrey Michael was surprised to find a couple years ago that the scene in Mexico was just getting started — somewhere south of 200 craft breweries — while the number back home was ballooning towards 5,000. Those numbers, he said, made sense to someone who was considering starting a brewery, and he found a spot in a strip mall big enough to host a brew house and a good-sized tap room in the front of the house.<\/p>\n

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