{"id":47,"date":"2015-03-05T16:56:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T21:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/?p=47"},"modified":"2015-03-19T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T17:52:12","slug":"that-voodoo-that-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/allegheny\/that-voodoo-that-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"That Voodoo that we do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/voodoo-board-horiz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49\" src=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/voodoo-board-horiz.jpg\" alt=\"voodoo board horiz\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/voodoo-board-horiz.jpg 960w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/voodoo-board-horiz-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reminders of the building&#8217;s past are still there. A row of heavy firefighters&#8217; turnout coats hanging in one corner. A pile of coiled canvas hoses stacked under a metal stairway behind the bar.<\/p>\n<p>But the conversion of the building that had been Homestead&#8217;s old fire station to Voodoo Brewing&#8217;s first Pittsburgh-area pub &#8212; the first one, actually, other than the original at the brewery&#8217;s home in Meadville &#8212; was thorough, from the long bar and the floor-to-ceiling menu blackboard to the beer hall-style tables fashioned from old shipping pallets. The space is quirky and inviting, like the beers that Voodoo has been turning out for years.<\/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=\"4084615980001\"\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>The pub&#8217;s presence should work out well for fans of the brewery who can&#8217;t make regular trips to Crawford County, because we&#8217;re going to get some draft-only beers we don&#8217;t usually get to sample here. Our visit included tastes of the latest in the brewery&#8217;s single-hop series, as well as Hail To Pitt, a hop-forward Homestead exclusive that tastes like it&#8217;s loaded with resinous simcoe.<\/p>\n<p>Voodoo partner Jake Voelker said the pub has so far been embraced by the community, from people who volunteered to help with renovations to the space to shot-and-a-beer neighborhood guys who just wanted to get a look at the old municipal building. The century-old building that was the hub of Homestead could be that again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-Gazette coverage of Voodoo Homestead:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/life\/libations\/2014\/06\/19\/Voodoo-Brewery-purchases-Homestead-building\/stories\/201406160175\" target=\"_blank\">Meadville&#8217;s Voodoo Brewery purchases Homestead building<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/life\/libations\/2015\/01\/29\/Voodoo-opening-pub-in-Homestead\/stories\/201501290017\" target=\"_blank\">Voodoo opening pub in Homestead<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The reminders of the building&#8217;s past are still there. A row of heavy firefighters&#8217; turnout coats hanging in one corner. A pile of coiled canvas hoses stacked under a metal stairway behind the bar. But the conversion of the building that had been Homestead&#8217;s old fire station to Voodoo Brewing&#8217;s first Pittsburgh-area pub &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"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=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}