They liked the sensibility in Spain, where families take their children with them to bars on weekends. So they\u2019re going to encourage that by including a separate area for kids to play in the front of the building, adjacent to tables and the bar.\u00a0There\u2019s an outdoor beer garden in what had been a vacant lot to the west and, abutting that, an open kitchen with a wood-fired oven for everything from flatbreads to slow-roasted meats.<\/p>\n
The menu of small and big plates from Spain and its neighbors will be overseen by Sean Skerette, a Trinidadian who is coming from a St. Croix restaurant,\u00a0Balter<\/a>, that\u2019s co-owned by a Pittsburgher.<\/p>\n \u201cHis connection to Pittsburgh is he loves the Steelers,\u201d Ms. Oancea says.<\/p>\n The 15-barrel, German BrauKon brewhouse arrived at the end of April and was hooked up last month. There, her husband is making a wide range of beer styles and experiments. He hopes to open with at least eight and go from there. Eventually, he\u2019d like to offer 10 draft beers and two draft soft drinks, including a ginger beer.\u00a0They\u2019ll also be serving wines and spirits, which the couple also enjoy.<\/p>\n But the most unusual feature of this brewpub is the eight-lane bowling alley on the second floor, which the brothers bought. What had been Club Lanes has continued to operate as a league venue, but the brothers want to open it to the public.<\/p>\n The building\u2019s wow factor comes from the storefront\u2019s huge arched windows and the exposed cast-iron columns that run from the top to bottom.<\/p>\n Mr. Rodriguez installed a four-tap system to dispense some of his house beers upstairs. On the main floor, he\u2019ll tap some small kegs to flesh out the offerings from eight serving tanks in the basement.<\/p>\n They expect to open sometime in July. Follow their progress on their website,\u00a0https:\/\/enix.beer<\/a>, and on social media.<\/p>\n \u201cIt will be a unique brewing experience,\u201d he says, and one that, especially due to its European influences will be different enough to find its own niche in Pittsburgh\u2019s scene. As she puts it,\u00a0\u201cWe see the boom in breweries as complementary to ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n Rogan Brewing Co.<\/strong><\/p>\n The other new place to drink craft beer is the taproom of Rogan Brewing Co. in West Homestead. Longtime homebrewer Rick Morgan, a native of the nearby neighborhood of Lincoln Place, looked long and hard for a building in this business district and found one at 214 W. Eighth Ave., where he is building a taproom to serve pints and selling growlers to go.<\/p>\n He needed more space to do the brewing so he rented a building in Duquesne where he will brew on a 10-barrel system he\u2019s pieced together. He\u2019s planning a wide variety of ales \u2014\u00a0\u201ca little bit of something for everybody\u201d \u2014 including a signature American pale ale made with rye and cracked black pepper.<\/p>\n Rick Morgan is opening a taproom in West Homestead in the summer or fall of 2018 to sell beer he\u2019ll brew in Duquesne as Rogan Brewing Co. (Bob Batz Jr.\/Post-Gazette)<\/p><\/div>\n The taproom, which he aims to open this summer or fall, will have a hockey theme, as does the name of the place. He explains that when he was a defenseman at Duquesne University, his friend and then-sportswriter Mark Madden wrote a story in which his last name somehow was typo-ed as\u00a0\u201cRogan,\u201d and from that day on, Mr. Morgan had a new nickname.<\/p>\n All these years later, after his wife gave her blessing to open a brewery, their two grown daughters told him he had to name it Rogan.<\/p>\n Now a resident of Jefferson Hills and a veteran in the financial services industry, Mr. Morgan is starting up this new venture mostly by himself. He\u2019s not planning to do his own food, but as many taprooms do, he\u2019ll host mobile food vendors.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to be very symbiotic with all the Homestead restaurants,\u201d allowing people to bring in their food.<\/p>\n His website will be roganbrewing.com.<\/p>\n He\u2019s excited about Enix opening up nearby in Homestead, which also is home to several bars and restaurants that serve craft beer, including Blue Dust, a taproom of Voodoo Brewery, and Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery at 171 E. Bridge St. in the Waterfront -\u2014 where head brewer Meg Evans this spring released her first cans of Uppity Jagoff IPA.<\/p>\n For fellow beer lovers and their families, who also can enjoy restaurants, shopping, Sandcastle Water Park, Kennywood Amusement Park and more, \u201cit\u2019s almost like a long week\u2019s vacation if you market it right,\u201d said Mr. Morgan.<\/p>\n Voodoo, which opened in 2015 just off Eighth Avenue in the borough\u2019s former fire and police station, is going to keep growing and transforming, says co-owner Jake Voelker. Last month, he signed a contract to demolish the former theater next door on East Ninth Avenue. He has grants to begin transforming it into the\u00a0\u201cHomestead Community Garden,\u201d a courtyard local groups could use.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, he\u2019s also pushing forward plans to fix up the pub building, with a second-floor\u00a0hydroponic community garden<\/a>\u00a0and other uses. It may be a ways off, but he has a vision for the\u00a0\u201cMother Jones\u2019 Makers Union,\u201d named for the labor activist who spent time in the building\u2019s jail cell.<\/p>\n \u201cI think a lot of businesses talk about doing really transformative things for their communities,\u201d he says. \u201cWe\u2019re doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n Lots of\u00a0other development<\/a>\u00a0has been happening in the area, which includes the busy Waterfront development. A.M. Rodriguez Associates built, and its sister company CMS manages, an apartment building with ground-floor shop space in the 100 block of East Eighth Avenue as well as townhomes along Amity Street.<\/p>\n Bob Batz Jr.: bbatz@post-gazette.com, 412-263-1930 and on Twitter @bobbatzjr.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Homestead is getting a Mediterranean-flavored brewery and restaurant \u2014 complete with its own bowling alley \u2014 and later this summer or fall, West Homestead will welcome another new brewery\u2019s taproom. Both will be on Eighth Avenue, the main drag that unites the two boroughs. 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