{"id":65,"date":"2015-04-02T17:48:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T21:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/?p=65"},"modified":"2015-04-02T18:03:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T22:03:56","slug":"local-brewing-tradition-on-display-at-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/allegheny\/local-brewing-tradition-on-display-at-the-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Local brewing tradition on display at the Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/mosaic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66\" src=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/mosaic.jpg\" alt=\"mosaic\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/mosaic.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/mosaic-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the decades before prohibition, a Pittsburgh-sized city could\u00a0have had dozens of breweries, most of which served the immediate neighborhood with fresh beer.\u00a0That way of doing business is making a comeback, and there may not be a better way of the breadth of the region&#8217;s beer than by pulling up a bar stool at Squirrel Hill&#8217;s Independent Brewing Co.<\/p>\n<p>The original Independent Brewing Co. included smaller breweries, mostly from outside the Pittsburgh city limits; it pooled resources so its members could better compete with Pittsburgh Brewing, which had already turned\u00a0Iron City into a regional behemoth.<\/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=\"4150029273001\"\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>Big Beer still takes up plenty of tap handles, but you won&#8217;t find them at the Independent, 1704 Shady Ave. Since re-branding an old sports bar about a year ago, Brothers Matthew and Pete Kurzweg have had a mission similar to that of their namesake: get fresh, local beer into the hands of consumers. When they&#8217;re able, they work directly with local brewers, so the Brothers Kurzweg can keep a dozen taps pouring.<\/p>\n<p>The connection to Pittsburgh brewing history is obvious, right down to the old IBC logo that graced beers from Beaver Falls to Monessen a century ago. The brewing industry is returning to those roots, and the Independent Brewing Co. &#8212; in its new form &#8212; has returned as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the decades before prohibition, a Pittsburgh-sized city could\u00a0have had dozens of breweries, most of which served the immediate neighborhood with fresh beer.\u00a0That way of doing business is making a comeback, and there may not be a better way of the breadth of the region&#8217;s beer than by pulling up a bar stool at Squirrel [&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":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}