{"id":518,"date":"2017-12-07T20:15:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T01:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/?p=518"},"modified":"2017-12-07T16:32:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T21:32:38","slug":"bigger-means-better-for-eries-lavery-brewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/region\/bigger-means-better-for-eries-lavery-brewing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigger means better for Erie’s Lavery Brewing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A quick glance at the Lavery Brewing<\/a> brew house in downtown Erie doesn’t reveal any obvious problems.<\/p>\n

You’ll have an easier time figuring out the issue if you take this approach: When was the last time you saw Lavery beers on the shelves or in your favorite bars here in Pittsburgh?<\/p>\n

Chances are it’s been quite a while.<\/p>\n

Lavery will start 2018 with a hefty expansion to its brewing capacity and if all goes well, it will have fixed a biggest challenge: it can’t make enough beer.<\/p>\n

Jason Lavery, who founded the brewery about eight years ago with his wife Nikki, said the brewery initially had a hard time finding customers in its home market, so it immediately began shipping beer to Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and a couple of out-of-state destinations. That worked well, until the locals caught on and demand for Lavery in Erie — especially in its brewpub, which opened a few years ago — began to spike.<\/p>\n

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