{"id":489,"date":"2017-08-31T20:15:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T00:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/?p=489"},"modified":"2017-08-31T17:12:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T21:12:20","slug":"the-time-has-come-for-11th-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/pittsburgh\/the-time-has-come-for-11th-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"The time has come for 11th Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/11th-cap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-491\" src=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/11th-cap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"934\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/11th-cap.jpg 934w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/11th-cap-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/11th-cap-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long time coming. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.11thhourbrews.com\/\">11th Hour Brewing<\/a> has finally opened its doors.<\/p>\n<p>Not in the North Hills. And not in a Downtown location near the convention center. Those spots didn&#8217;t work out &#8230; and they&#8217;re part of the reason why it&#8217;s taken Matt and Keana McMahon a bit longer than usual to officially get started.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t have to dwell on that now; in fact, there&#8217;s no time to think about everything that&#8217;s led them to this weekend, when the brewery officially opened up in a Lawrenceville building that started as a schoolhouse for German immigrants and later served as industrial space. There&#8217;s a 20-barrel brewhouse behind the bar and a long taproom that looks out over Charlotte Street through a series of garage doors. And there are clocks everywhere; just don&#8217;t count on them being correct more than twice a day &#8230; you know, at 11.<\/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=\"5559889766001\"\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>From the beginning, 11th Hour has been a family affair, and that was evident this week when I stopped in. Keana and her son, assistant brewer Justin Strzelczyk Jr., were cleaning up for a industry-and-friends soft opening that evening, while Dan McMahon, Matt&#8217;s father, continued some carpentry work. Matt&#8217;s brother Mark also did construction work and was behind the bar during the soft opening, along with Keana&#8217;s daughter Sabrina. And Matt&#8217;s sister Brie, a public relations professional, has pitched in with promoting the brewery. That&#8217;s made the long road a bit easier, Matt said.<\/p>\n<p>Just how long is that road? I had my first taste of his jalapeno IPA, if I recall correctly, on an early cruise of the Commonwealth Press Beer Barge. It seems impossible that 11th Hour could be the city&#8217;s newest brewery &#8230; because they&#8217;ve been at festivals and events for years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But this is different,&#8221; Matt said, as he took a breather during the soft opening. &#8220;We&#8217;ve always been welcomed and accepted, but I haven&#8217;t really felt like I was fully a part of the community until now, when we finally have a place of our own. We&#8217;ve been doing this forever, but now it finally seems real.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Post-Gazette coverage of 11th Hour Brewing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/life\/libations\/2013\/11\/21\/Try-a-new-brewery-at-Brufest\/stories\/201311210093\">Beer: Try a new brewery at Brufest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/life\/food\/forks\/2014\/04\/13\/A-great-day-for-Beers-of-the-Burgh\/stories\/201404130261\">A great day for Beers of the Burgh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/life\/libations\/2017\/08\/31\/11th-Hour-Brewing-Co-Eleventh-Lawrenceville-opens-Pittsburgh-beer\/stories\/201708310046\">It&#8217;s the dawn of 11th Hour Brewing Co.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time coming. But 11th Hour Brewing has finally opened its doors. Not in the North Hills. And not in a Downtown location near the convention center. Those spots didn&#8217;t work out &#8230; and they&#8217;re part of the reason why it&#8217;s taken Matt and Keana McMahon a bit longer than usual to [&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],"tags":[6,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}