{"id":407,"date":"2017-04-07T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/?p=407"},"modified":"2017-04-07T13:13:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T17:13:52","slug":"southern-tier-brewed-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/pittsburgh\/southern-tier-brewed-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Tier, brewed here"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_408\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/st-dave-tanks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-408\" class=\"wp-image-408 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/st-dave-tanks-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/st-dave-tanks-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/st-dave-tanks-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/st-dave-tanks-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/st-dave-tanks.jpg 1360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brewmaster David Harries works in his new brewhouse at Southern Tier&#8217;s brewhouse on the North Shore.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We know the products of Southern Tier Brewing Company pretty well. After all, with the exception of Buffalo, Pittsburgh is Southern Tier&#8217;s best market.<\/p>\n<p>But if you think you know Southern Tier inside and out &#8212; and you haven&#8217;t been to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stbcbeerPGH\/\">brewery&#8217;s satellite brewpub on the North Shore<\/a> &#8212; you don&#8217;t know as much as you think. Among those 30 taps are three that are exclusive to our Southern Tier &#8230; and there are more on the way.<\/p>\n<p>For me, the prospect of Pittsburgh-exclusive has been the draw since Southern Tier announced its plans for the North Shore spot a year ago. For a long time, I&#8217;ve been envious of the folks in Portland, Ore., and the access they have to Fat Head&#8217;s beer at the satellite pub there that we don&#8217;t see here, and I was hoping for the same kind of fun at our Southern Tier.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; position: relative; max-width: 100%;margin-bottom:20px;\">\r\n<div style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\r\n<video data-video-id=\"5388341423001\"\r\ndata-account=\"1105443290001\" \r\ndata-player=\"N1VVkFril\" \r\ndata-embed=\"default\" \r\ndata-application-id \r\nclass=\"video-js\" \r\ncontrols \r\nstyle=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; right: 0px; left: 0px;\"><\/video>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/1105443290001\/N1VVkFril_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><\/div><\/div>\n<p>And with the first three locally produced beers flowing, I think the outlook for that is promising.\u00a0Brewmaster David Harries &#8212; who spent time in the Lakewood brewery as well as working as a distiller at Wigle Whiskey &#8212; began with a few that could become staples: a clean golden ale, a silky oatmeal porter and an unfiltered IPA that A) definitely looks like it&#8217;s been filtered, a product of Southern Tier&#8217;s house yeast strain, and B) is a piney, resin-soaked West Coast old school IPA &#8212; a great counterpart to Southern Tier&#8217;s citrusy Nu Skool IPA.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Harries said that in addition to setting up a consistent lineup here &#8212; his goal is to have four locals on at all times &#8212; he&#8217;ll work with the brewers at the mothership in Western New York to experiment with styles or variations that might get big-brewery treatment later on. That kind of\u00a0freedom is the byproduct of working on a smaller system &#8212; 8.5 barrels versus 110 &#8212; and we should be beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>What else should you expect from the brewpub? A warm appearance, excellent pub food, a selection of STBC swag &#8212; including black and gold branded items &#8212; and plenty of cold beer to go, in growlers, bombers and six packs.<\/p>\n<p>And as anyone who has visited the pub since it opened in late January, you should also expect a crowd &#8212; it&#8217;s popular, and for good reason.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-Gazette coverage of Southern Tier&#8217;s North Shore pub:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/life\/dining\/2017\/04\/06\/Munch-goes-to-Southern-Tier-and-Mindful-Brewing\/stories\/201704060067\">Munch goes to Southern Tier and Mindful Brewing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/life\/drinks\/2017\/01\/26\/Southern-Tier-Brewing-Co-opens-on-the-North-Shore\/stories\/201701260005\">Southern Tier Brewing Co. opens on the North Shore<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/business\/development\/2016\/03\/01\/Upscale-cigar-bar-microbrewery-headed-to-North-Shore\/stories\/201603010056?pgpageversion=pgevoke\">Upscale cigar bar, microbrewery headed to North Shore<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know the products of Southern Tier Brewing Company pretty well. After all, with the exception of Buffalo, Pittsburgh is Southern Tier&#8217;s best market. But if you think you know Southern Tier inside and out &#8212; and you haven&#8217;t been to the brewery&#8217;s satellite brewpub on the North Shore &#8212; you don&#8217;t know as much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[41,6,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}